HITHE

An old Saxon word, signifying a port, wharf, or minor harbour, at which goods are shipped or landed: Queen hi the on the Thames is an example. HOARY, in describing the superficial appendages of bodies, denotes their being covered with very short dense hairs, placed so closely as to give an appearance of whitene to the surface from which they grow. HOBILERS (Lat. hobellarii), in England, were feudal tenants bound to serve as light horsemen, or bowmen; for the word seems to have been of somewhat uncertain employment. The smaller feudal gentry were long styled in France " Hobereaux." [s. 572]