1. [_This is_] the kid that my father bought for two zuzim [=1/2_d._]. 2. [_This is_] the cat that ate ... 3. [_This is_] the dog that bit ... 4. [_This is_] the stick that beat ... 5. [_This is_] the fire that burnt ... 6. [_This is_] the water that quenched ... 7. [_This is_] the ox that drank ... 8. [_This is_] the butcher that killed ... 9. This is the angel, the angel of death, that slew ... =Hous´sain= (_Prince_), the elder brother of Prince Ahmed. He possessed a carpet of such wonderful powers that if any one sat upon it it would transport him in a moment to any place he liked. Prince Houssain bought this carpet at Bisnagar, in India.—_Arabian Nights_ (“Ahmed and Paribanou”). ⁂ Solomon’s carpet (_q. v._) possessed the same locomotive power. =Houyhnhnms= [_Whin´.ims_], a race of horses endowed with human reason, and bearing rule over the race of man.—Swift, _Gulliver’s Travels_ (1726). “True, true, ay, too true,” replied the Domine, his houyhnhnms laugh sinking into an hysterical giggle.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (1815). =Hover= (_Paul_), bee-hunter in _Last of the Mohicans_, in love with Ellen Wade.—James Fennimore Cooper. =Howard=, in the court of Edward IV.—Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =How´atson= (_Luckie_), midwife at Ellangowan.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Howden= (_Mrs._), a saleswoman.—Sir W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.). =Howe= (_Miss_), the friend of Clarissa Harlowe, to whom she presents a strong contrast. She has more worldly wisdom and less abstract principle. In questions of doubt, Miss Howe would suggest some practical solution, while Clarissa was mooning about hypothetical contingencies. She is a girl of high spirit, disinterested friendship, and sound common sense.—Richardson, _Clarissa Harlowe_ (1749). =Howel= or =Hoel=, king of the West Welsh in the tenth century, surnamed “the Good.” He is a very famous king, especially for his code of laws. This is not the Howel or Hoel of Arthurian romance, who was the duke of Armorica in the sixth century. What Mulmutian laws, or Martian, ever were More excellent than those which our good Howel here Ordained to govern Wales? Drayton, _Polyolbion_, ix. (1612). =Howie= (_Jamie_), bailie to Malcolm Bradwardine (_3 syl._), of Inchgrabbit.—Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). =Howlaglass= (_Master_), a preacher. Friend of Justice Maulstatute.—Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). =Howle´glas= (_Father_), the abbot of Unreason, in the revels held at Kennaquhair Abbey.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth). =Howleglass= (_2 syl._), a clever rascal, so called from the hero of an old German jest-book, popular in England in Queen Elizabeth’s reign.—See _Eulenspiegel_. =Hoyden= (_Miss_), a lively, ignorant, romping country girl.—Vanbrugh, _The Relapse_ (1697).