=History= (_Father of_). Herod´otos, the Greek historian, is so called by Cicero (B.C. 484-408). _History_ (_Father of Ecclesiastical_), Polygnotos of Thaos (fl. B. C. 463-435). The Venerable Bede is so called sometimes (672-735). _History_ (_Father of French_), Andre Duchesne (1584-1640). =Histrio-mastix=, a tirade against theatrical exhibitions, by William Prynne (1632). =Ho´amen=, an Indian tribe settled on a south branch of the Missouri, having Az´tlan for their imperial city. The Az´tecas conquered the tribe, deposed the queen, and seized their territory by right of conquest. When Madoc landed on the American shore, he took the part of the Hoamen, and succeeded in restoring them to their rights. The Aztecas then migrated to Mexico (twelfth century).—Southey, _Madoc_ (1805). =Hob Miller= of Twyford, an insurgent.—Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Hob or Happer=, miller at St. Mary’s Convent. _Mysie Happer_, the miller’s daughter. She marries Sir Piercie Shafton.—Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth). =Hob´bididance= (_4 syl._), the prince of dumbness, and one of the five fiends that possessed “poor Tom.”—Shakespeare, _King Lear_, act iv. sc. 1 (1605). ⁂ This name is taken from Harsnett’s _Declaration of Egregious Popish-Impostures_ (1561-1631). =Hobbie O’Sorbie´trees,= one of the huntsmen near Charlie’s Hope farm.—Sir. W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.) =Hob´bima= (_The English_), John Crome, of Norwich, whose last words were: “O Hobbima, Hobbima, how I do love thee!” (1769-1821). _Hob´bima (The Scotch)_, P. Nasmyth (1831- ). ⁂ Minderhout Hobbima, a famous landscape painter of Amsterdam (1638-1709). =Hobbinol.= (See HOBINOL). =Hobbler= or CLOPINEL, Jehan de Meung, the French poet, who was lame (1260-1320). Meung was called by his contemporaries _Père de l’Eloquence_. ⁂ Tyrtæus, the Greek elegiac poet, was called “Hobbler” because he introduced the alternate pentameter verse, which is one foot shorter than the old heroic metre. _Hobbler (The Rev. Dr.)_, at Ellieslaw Castle, one of the Jacobite conspirators with the laird of Ellieslaw.—Sir W. Scott _The Black Dwarf_ (time, Anne). =Hobby-horse= (_The_), one of the masquers at Kennaquhair Abbey.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time Elizabeth).