_Hunchback_ (_The Little_), the buffoon of the sultan of Casgar. Supping with a tailor, the little fellow was killed by a bone sticking in his throat. The tailor, out of fear, carried the body to the house of a physician, and the physician, stumbling against it, knocked it downstairs. Thinking he had killed the man, he let the body down a chimney into the store-room of his neighbor, who was a purveyor. The purveyor, supposing it to be a thief, belabored it soundly; and then, thinking he had killed the little humpback, carried the body into the street, and set it against a wall. A Christian merchant, reeling home, stumbled against the body, and gave it a blow with his fist. Just then the patrol came up, and arrested the merchant for murder. He was condemned to death; but the purveyor came forward and accused himself of being the real offender. The merchant was accordingly released, and the purveyor condemned to death; but then the physician appeared, and said he had killed the man by accident, having knocked him downstairs. When the purveyor was released, and the physician led away to execution, the tailor stepped up, and told his tale. All were then taken before the sultan, and acquitted; and the sultan ordered the case to be enrolled in the archives of his kingdom amongst the _causes célèbres_.—_Arabian Nights_ (“The Little Hunchback”). =Hundebert=, steward to Cedric of Rotherwood.—Sir. W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_. =Hundred Fights= (_Hero of a_), Conn, son of Cormac, king of Ireland. Called in Irish “Conn Keadcahagh.” Arthur Wellesley, Lord Wellington. For this is England’s greatest son, He who gained a hundred fights And never lost an English gun.—_Tennyson_. Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson. =Hundred-Handed= (_The_). Briar´eos (4 _syl._) or Ægæon, with his brothers Gygês and Kottos, were all hundred-handed giants. Homer makes Briareos 4 _syl._; but Shakespeare writes it in the Latin form, “Briareus,” and makes it 3 _syl._ Then, called by thee, the monster Titan came, Whom gods Briareös, men Ægēon name. Pope, _Iliad_, 1 (1715). He is a gouty Briareus. Many hands, And of no use. Shakespeare, _Troilus and Cressida_, act, i. sc. 2 (1602). =Hundwolf=, steward to the old lady of Baldringham.—Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Hunia´des= (4 _syl._), called by the Turks “The Devil.” He was surnamed “Corvīnus,” and the family crest was a crow (1400-1456). The Turks employed the name of Huniadês to frighten their perverse children. He was corruptly called “Jancus Lain.”—Gibbon, _Decline and Fall, etc._, xii. 166 (1776-88). =Hunsdon= (_Lord_), cousin of Queen Elizabeth.—Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth).