=Hunter= (_Mr._ and _Mrs. Leo_), persons who court the society of any celebrity, and consequently invite Mr. Pickwick and his three friends to an entertainment in their house. Mrs. Leo Hunter wrote an “Ode to an Expiring Frog,” considered by her friends a most masterly performance.—C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836). Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log, expiring frog! Say, have fiends in shape of boys, With wild halloo, and brutal noise, Hunted thee from marshy joys, With a dog, expiring frog! _Ch. xv._ _Hunter_ (_The Mighty_), Nimrod; so called in _Gen._ x. 9. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase [_war_] began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. Pope, _Windsor Forest_ (1713). =Huntingdon= (_Robert, earl of_), generally called “Robin Hood.” In 1601 Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle produced a drama entitled _The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon_ (attributed often to T. Heywood). Ben Jonson began a beautiful pastoral drama on the subject of Robin Hood (_The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood_), but left only two acts of it when he died (1637). We have also _Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers_, a comedy acted at Nottingham, and printed 1661; _Robin Hood_, an opera (1730). J. Ritson edited, in 1795, _Robin Hood: a Collection of Poems, Songs and Ballads relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw_. _Huntingdon_ (_the earl of_), in the court of Queen Elizabeth.—Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth). _Huntingdon_ (_David, earl of_), prince royal of Scotland. He appears first as Sir Kenneth, knight of the Leopard, and afterwards as Zohauk, the Nubian slave.—Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Huntinglen= (_The earl of_), an old Scotch nobleman.—Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.). =Huntley= (_Earl_), George of Gordon was killed in battle with the troops of the Regent Murray. His body was taken to Holyrood and tried for high treason. “No word he spake, though thrice adjured; Then came the sentence drear: Foul traitor to thy queen and realm, Our laws denounce thee here.” * * * * * * * * * “Light thing to him that earthly doom, Or man’s avenging rod, Who in the land of souls doth bide The audit of his God.” Lydia Huntley Sigourney, _The Western Home and Other Poems_ (1854). =Huntly= (_The Marquis of_), a royalist.—Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).