=Hush´ai= (2 _syl._), in Dryden’s satire of _Absalom and Achitophel_, is Hyde, earle of Rochester. As Hushai was David’s friend and wise counsellor, so was Hyde the friend and wise counsellor of Charles II. As the counsel of Hushai rendered abortive that of Achitophel, and caused the plot of Absalom to miscarry, so the counsel of Hyde rendered abortive that of Lord Shaftesbury, and caused the plot of Monmouth to miscarry. Hushai, the friend of David in distress; In public storms of manly steadfastness; By foreign treaties he informed his youth, And joined experience to his native truth. Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_, I. (1681). =Hut´cheon=, the auld domestic in Wandering Willie’s tale.—Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.). _Hutcheon_, one of Julian Avenel’s retainers.—Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth). =Hutter= (_Tom_). A trapper, with two handsome daughters, who has built a house upon a long shoal extending far into the _Glimmerglass_ (Lake George). Wary, stolid, old fellow, with a reputation for cunning and skill among the Indians. _Hutter_ (_Hetty_). “Feeble-minded, but right-thinking and right-feeling girl,” daughter of “Old Tom.” She is hurt by a chance ball in a fight between whites and Indians, and dies, seeing her “mother and bright beings” around her.—James Fenimore Cooper, _The Deer-slayer_. =Hutin= (_Le_), Louis X. of France; so called from his expedition against the Hutins, a seditious people of Navarre and Lyons (1289, 1314-1316). =Hy´acinth=, son of Amyclas, the Spartan king. He was playing quoits with Apollo, when the wind drove the quoit of the sun-god against the boy’s head, and killed him on the spot. From the blood grew the flower called hyacinth, which bears on its petals the words, “AI! AI!” (“alas! alas!”).—_Grecian Fable_. =Hyacinthe= (3 _syl._), the daughter of Seigneur Géronte (2 _syl._). who passed into Tarentum under the assumed name of Pandolphe (2 _syl._). When he quitted Tarentum, he left behind him his wife and daughter Hyacinthe. Octave (2 _syl._), son of Argante (2 _syl._) fell in love with Hyacinthe (supposing her surname to be Pandolphe), and Octave’s father wanted him to marry the daughter of his friend, Seigneur Géronte. The young man would not listen to his father, and declared that Hyacinthe, and Hyacinthe alone, should be his wife. It was then explained to him that Hyacinthe Pandolphe was the same person as Hyacinthe Géronte, and that the choice of father and son were in exact accord.—Molière, _Les Fourberies de Scapin_ (1671). (In _The Cheats of Scapin_, Otway’s version of this play, Hyacinthe is called “Clara,” her father, Géronte, “Gripe,” and Octave is Anglicized into “Octavian.”). _Hyacinthe_ (_Father_), Charles Loyson, a celebrated pulpit orator and French theologian (1827-). =Hyder= (_El_), chief of the Ghaut Mountains; hero and title of a melodrama by Barrymore.