=Hortense´= (2 _syl._), the vindictive French maid-servant of Lady Dedlock. In revenge for the partiality shown by Lady Dedlock to Rosa, the village beauty, Hortense murdered Mr. Tulkinghorn, and tried to throw the suspicion of the crime on Lady Dedlock.—C. Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1853). =Horten´sio=, a suitor to Bianca, the younger sister of Katharina, “the Shrew.” Katharina and Bianca are the daughters of Baptista.—Shakespeare, _Taming of the Shrew_ (1594). _Hortensio_, noted for his chivalrous love and valor.—Massinger, _The Bashful Lover_ (1636). =Hosier’s Ghost= (_Admiral_), a ballad by Richard Glover (1739). Admiral Hosier was sent with twenty sail to the Spanish West Indies, to block up the galleons of that country. He arrived at the Bastimentos, near Portobello, but had strict orders not to attack the foe. His men perished by disease but not in fight, and the admiral himself died of a broken heart. After Vernon’s victory, Hosier and his 3000 men rose, “all in dreary hammocks shrouded, which for winding-sheets they wore,” and lamented the cruel orders that forbade them to attack the foe, for “with twenty ships he surely could have achieved what Vernon did with only six.” =Hotspur.= So Harry Percy was called from his fiery temper, over which he had no control.—Shakespeare, _1 Henry IV._ (1597). William Bensley [1738-1817] had the true poetic enthusiasm.... None that I remember possessed even a portion of that fine madness which he threw out in Hotspur’s fine rant about glory. His voice had the dissonance and at times the inspiring effect of the trumpet.—C. Lamb. =Hotspur of Debate= (_The_), Lord Derby, called by Maccaulay “The Rupert of Debate” (1799-1869). =Houd= (_1 syl._), a prophet sent to preach repentance to the Adites (_2 syl._), and to reprove their King Shedad for his pride. As the Adites and their king refused to hear the prophet, God sent on the kingdom first a drought of three years’ duration, and then the Sarsar or icy wind for seven days, so that all the people perished. Houd is written “Hûd” in Sale’s _Korân_, i. Then stood the prophet Houd and cried, “Woe! woe to Irem! woe to Ad! Death is gone up into her palaces! Woe! woe! a day of guilt and punishment! A day of desolation!” Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_, i. 41 (1797). =Hough´ton= (_Sergeant_), in Waverley’s regiment.—Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.).