=Hö´der=, the Scandinavian god of darkness, typical of night. He is called the blind old god. Balder is the god of light, typical of day. According to fable Höder killed Balder with an arrow made of mistletoe, but the gods restored him to life again. Höder, the blind old god, Whose feet are shod with silence. Longfellow, _Tegner’s Death_. =Hodge=, Gammer Gurton’s goodman, whose breeches she was repairing when she lost her needle.—Mr. S., Master of Arts, _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_ (1551). ⁂ Mr. S. is said to be J. Still, afterwards bishop of Bath and Wells, but in 1551 he was only eight years old. =Hodges= (_John_), one of Waverley’s servants.—Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). _Hodges (Joe)_, landlord of Bertram, by the lake near Merwyn Hall.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Hodge´son= (_Gaffer_), a puritan.—Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). =Hoel= (_2 syl._), king of the Armorican Britons, and nephew of King Arthur. Hoel sent an army of 15,000 men to assist his uncle against the Saxons (501). In 509, being driven from his kingdom by Clovis, he took refuge in England; but in 513 he recovered his throne, and died in 545. [_Arthur_], calling to his aid His kinsman Howel, brought from Brittany, the less, Their armies they unite.... [_and conquer the Saxons at Lincoln_]. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, iv. (1612). _Ho´el_, son of Prince Hoel and Lla´ian. Prince Hoel was slain in battle by his half-brother David, king of North Wales, and Llaian, with her son, followed the fortunes of Prince Madoc, who migrated to North America. Young Hoel was kidnapped by Ocell´opan, an Az´tec, and carried to Az´tlan for a propitiatory sacrifice to the Aztecan gods. He was confined in a cavern without food; but Co´atel, a young Aztecan wife, took pity on him, visited him, supplied him with food, and assisted Madoc to release him.—Southey, _Madoc_ (1805). =Ho´garth= (_William_), called “The Juvenal of Painters” (1695-1764). _Hogarth (The Scottish)_, David Allan (1744-1796). =Hogarth of Novelists=, Henry Fielding (1707-1754). =Hold´enough= (_Master Nehemiah_), a Presbyterian preacher, ejected from his pulpit by a military preacher.—Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). =Holgrave=, daguerreotypist, who rents a room from Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, falls in love with and marries Phœbe Pyncheon.—Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The House of the Seven Gables_ (1851). =Holiday= (_Erasmus_), schoolmaster in the Vale of Whitehorse.—Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth). =Holipher´nes= (_4 syl._), called “English Henry,” one of the Christian knights in the allied army of Godfrey, in the first crusade. He was slain by Dragu´tês (_3 syl._). (See HOLOPHERNES).—Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, ix. (1575).