=Hyder Ali Khan Behauder=, the nawaub of Mysore (2 _syl._), disguised as the Sheik Hali.—Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon’s Daughter_ (time, George II.). =Hydra= or _Dragon of the Hesperian Grove_. The golden apples of the Hesperian field were guarded by women called the Hesperĭdês, assisted by the hydra or dragon named Ladon. Her flowery store To thee nor Tempê shall refuse, nor watch Of wingéd hydra guard Hesperian fruits From thy free spoil. Akenside, _Pleasures of Imagination_, i. (1744). =Hydropsy=, personified by Thomson: On limbs enormous, but withal unsound, Soft, swoln and wan, here lay pale Hydropsy— Unwieldy man; with belly monstrous round, For ever fed with watery supply, For still he drank, and yet was ever dry. _Castle of Indolence_, i. 73 (1748). =Hymbercourt= (_Baron d’_), one of the duke of Burgundy’s officers.—Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.). =Hymen=, god of marriage; the personification of the bridal song; marriage. Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour, There dwelt no joy in Eden’s rosy bower... The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, sighed—till woman smiled. Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, ii. (1799). =Hyndman= (_Master_), usher to the council-chamber at Holyrood.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbott_ (time, Elizabeth). =Hypatia=. Beautiful and learned pagan, whose school of philosophy was celebrated in Alexandria in 415 A. D. She was torn to pieces in a church by a Christian mob, in the flower of her youth and beauty.—Charles Kingsley, _Hypatia_ (1853). =Hyperi´on=, the sun. His parents were Cælum and Tellus (_heaven_ and _earth_). Strictly speaking, he was the father of the sun, but Homer uses the word for the sun itself. When the might Of Hyperi´on from his noon-tide throne Unbends their languid pinions [i.e. _of the winds_]. Akenside, _Hymn to the Naiads_ (1767). Blow, gentle Africus, Play on our poops, when Hyperion’s son Shall couch in west. _Fuimus Troes_. Placat equo Persis radiis Hyperīone sinctum. Ovid, _Fasti_, i, 385. Shakespeare throws the accent on the antepenult: “Hype´rion to a satyr” (_Hamlet_, act i. sc. 2). In this he is followed by almost all English poets, but as shown above, Akenside returns to the classical accent. ⁂ Keats has left the fragment of a poem entitled _Hyperion_, of which Byron says: “It seems inspired by the Titans, and is as sublime as Æschylus.” =Hypnos=, god of sleep, brother of Oneiros (_dreams_) and Thanătos (_death_).