_Hope_ (_Dorothy_). An ingenuous, dimpled village girl, who attracts the fancy and satisfies the heart of a world-weary man.—Ellen Olney Kirk, _Daughter of Eve_ (1889). _Hope_ (_The Cape of Good_), originally called “The Cape of Storms”. Similarly, the Euxine (_i.e._ “hospitable”) Sea was originally called by the Greeks, the Axine (_i.e._ “the inhospitable”) Sea. =Hope Diamond= (_The_), a blue brilliant, weighing 44-1/4 carats. It is supposed that this diamond is the same as the blue diamond bought by Louis XIV. in 1608, of Tavernier. It weighed in the rough 112-1/4 carats, and after being cut 67-1/8 carats. In 1792 it was lost. In 1830 Mr. Daniel Eliason came into possession of a blue diamond without any antecedent history. This was bought by Mr. Henry Thomas Hope, and is called “The Hope Diamond.” =Hope of Troy= (_The_), Hector. [_He_] stood against them, as the Hope of Troy Against the Greeks. Shakespeare, 3 _Henry VI._ act ii. sc. 1 (1592). =Hopeful=, a companion of Christian after the death of Faithful at Vanity Fair.—Bunyan, _The Pilgrim’s Progress_, i, (1678). =Hope-on-High Bomby=, a puritanical character, drawn by Beaumont and Fletcher. “Well,” said Wildrake, “I think I can make a Hope-on-High Bomby as well as thou canst.”—Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_, vii. =Hopkins= (_Matthew_), of Manningtree, Essex, the witch-finder. In one year he caused sixty persons to be hanged as reputed witches. Between three and four thousand persons suffered death for witchcraft between 1643 and 1661.—Dr. Z. Grey. _Hopkins_ (_Nicholas)_, a Chartreux friar, who prophesied “that neither the king [_Henry VIII._] nor his heirs should prosper, but that the duke of Buckingham should govern England.” _1st Gent._ That devil-monk, Hopkins, hath made this mischief. _2nd Gent._ That was he that fed him with his prophecies. Shakespeare, _Henry VIII._ act ii. sc. 1 (1601). =Hop-o’-my-Thumb=, a character in several nursery tales. Tom Thumb and Hop-o’-my-thumb are not the same, although they are often confounded with each other. Tom Thumb was the son of peasants, knighted by King Arthur, and was killed by a spider; but Hop-’o-my-thumb was a nix, the same as the German _daumling_, the French _le petit pouce_, and the Scotch _Tom-a-lin_ or Tamlane. He was not a human dwarf, but a fay of usual fairy proportions. Yon Stump-o’-the-gutter, yon Hop-o’-my-thumb, Your husband must from Lilliput come. Kane O’Hara, _Midas_ (1778).