Judith Hutter

Handsome daughter of a frontier trapper, whose ruse of arraying herself in a court-dre , heretofore kept as a curiosity, and, resplendent in brocade and laces, pa ing herself off as an English stranger of rank, would have effected the release of the prisoners but for her weak-witted sister’s avowal of her identity. She has been a favorite with more than one man, yet never loved until she knows Deers layer . Her offer to marry him is refused gently and simply, and in shame she quits her accustomed haunts for what career we are left to conjecture.—James Fennimore Cooper, The Deers layer . Judith. Child-heroine of Marion Harl and’s novel of that name. Judith , a beautiful Jewe of Bethu´lia, who a a inated Holofernês, the general of Nebuchadnezzar, to save her native town. When Judith showed the head of the general to her countrymen, they rushed on the invading army, and put it to a complete rout.— Judith , one of the books of the Apocrypha. Judith (Aunt) , sister to Master George Heriot, the king’s goldsmith.—Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).