a horn-like projection or cape jutting into the sea, or a valley between hills, curved like a horn; _e.g._ Hoorn (the promontory), a seaport in Holland, from which place the Dutch navigator Schoutens named Cape Horn, Hoorn being his native place; Hornburg (the town on the projection); Hornby (corner dwelling); Horncastle (the castle on the promontory); Hornberg and Horndon (the projecting hill); Hornsea (the projection on the coast); Matterhorn (the peak in the meadows), so called from the patches of green meadow-land which surround its base; Schreckhorn (the peak of terror); Finsteraarhorn (the peak out of which the Finster-Aar, or dark Aar, has its source). This river is so named to distinguish it from the Lauter or _clear_ river. Skagenshorn (the peak of the Skaw, in Denmark); Faulhorn (the foul peak), so called from the black shale which disintegrates in water; Wetterhorn (stormy peak); Katzenhorn (the cat’s peak); Silberhorn (the silvery peak); Jungfrauhorn (the peak of the maiden). [Sidenote: HOUC, or HOOG (Teut.),] a corner or little elevation, akin to the Scottish _heugh_ and the Scand. _haugr_; _e.g._ Hoogzand and Hoogeveen (the sand and marsh at the corner); Hoogheyd (corner heath); Hoogbraek (the broken-up land at the corner); Stanhoug (stone corner). [Sidenote: HUBEL, or HUGEL (Ger.),] a little hill; _e.g._ Haidhugel (heath hill); Steinhugel (stony hill); Huchel and Hivel (the little hill); Lindhövel (the hill of lime-trees); Gieshübel (the hill of gushing brooks). [Sidenote: HUNDRED (Eng.), HUNTARI (Ger.),] a district supposed to have originally comprised at least one hundred family dwellings, like Welsh _Cantref_ (from _cant_, a hundred), the name of a similar division in Wales; _e.g._ Hundrethwaite (the cleared land on this Hundred), a district in Yorkshire. [Sidenote: HÜTTE (Teut. and Scand.),] a shed or cottage; _e.g._ Dunkelhütte (dark cottage); Mooshutten (the cottage in the mossy land); Buxtehude (the hut on the ox pasture); Huttenwerke (the huts at the works or mines); Hudemühlen (mill hut); Hutton (the town of huts). But Landshut, in Bavaria, does not seem to be derived from _hütte_, but from _schutz_, Ger. (a defence), as it is in the neighbourhood of an old fortress, on the site of a Roman camp. [Sidenote: HVER (Norse),] a warm, bubbling spring; _e.g._ Uxaver (the oxen’s spring), in Iceland. I [Sidenote: I (Gadhelic),] an island; _e.g._ I-Colum-chille or Iona (the island of St. Columba’s cell); Ierne or Ireland (the western island or the island of Eire, an ancient queen). [Sidenote: IA (Cel.),]