huturn

Archæol.: A name given to small cinerary urns of Etruscan pottery, which are in the form of rude huts of skins, stretched on cro -poles. They have B. As subst. ( pl .) : The followers of John Hu , who was born of humble parents, at Hu inatz in Bohemia, about A. D. 1370, and became priest in 1400. Hu was a realist in philosophy, and adopted the views of Wycliffe, whose works he translated, been found on and near the Alban Mount, and are giving great offense to the Archbishop of Prague. of very high antiquity, the sepulchral furniture of Hu appeared by citation before the Council of Con stance, and, though provided with a safe-conduct from the Emperor Siegmund, or Sigismund, he was adjudged a heretic, and burned alive July 6, 1415, as was his disciple Jerome of Prague, on May 30, 1416. By the decision of this Council, the request of the Bohemian laity to communicate under two kinds was refused. The treatment of Hu exasperated his followers, and led to a religious war in which great ferocity and cruelty were manifested on both sides. The Hu ite leaders were John Ziska, or Zizka, and after his death Procopius. Sigismund commanded the imperial forces. The Hu ites fortified a mountain near Prague which they called Mount Tabor. [TABORITES.] Ziska was victorious in thirteen pitched battles and a hundred engagements and sieges, though, losing his second eye by an arrow, the first having been destroyed in his youth, he had to lead without the gift of sight. He died Oct. 12, 1424, soon after he had obtained IMG:content-1365.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1367.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1368.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Min.: To separate and clean ore by washing in a sieve