Hot spirited

High-spirited; fiery; impetuous; choleric. Hot Springs, in Arkansas , a S.W. central county, area, about 626 sq. m. Rivers. Saline and Washita rivers, besides some smaller streams. Surface , diversified; soil , fertile. Min . Magnetic iron in such abundance, it is said that some districts cannot be surveyed with a compa . There are also numerous springs in this county, and large quarries of oil-stone have been opened. Cap . Malvern. Pop . (1890) 11,603. Hot Springs, in Arkansas , a city, cap. of Garland co., 56 m. W.S.W. of Little Rock, on the Hot Springs R. R. Celebrated for its wonderful curative springs; has some manufactures. Pop . (1897) about 8,300. Hot Springs, in South Dakota , a post-village, cap. of Fall River co., in the Black Hills, on two railroad lines. Here is a Soldiers' Home. Pop . (1895) 1,642. Hot Springs, in Virginia, a post-village of Bath co., about 175 m. W. N.W. of Richmond. impulsive. manageable. ble; choleric; of a fiery, wrathful temper; as, a hot tempered vixen. Hot'tentots, n. pl. [Etymol. unknown.] A people of S. Africa, the original inhabitants of the territory now occupied by the British colony of the Cape of Good Hope. This country extends eastward along the seacoast to the territory of the Kaffirs, and is bounded N. by the Orange River, which separates them from the Bechuanas and Damaras. The people call themselves Quiquae . Neither in color nor general as! ect do the H. resemble the dark races around them. Their complexion is sallow, and much like that of a very dark person suffering from the jaundice. Indeed, the complexion of the H. much resembles that of the Chinese, and the general similarity between them is very remarkable. The person of the H. , when young, is remarkable for its symmetry. The joints and extremities are small, and the males look almost as effeminate as the women. (Fig. 1325.) The face, however, is in general extremely ugly, and with age this ugline increases. Sir John Barrow, in describing the Hottentot women, observes of them that before child-bearing they are models of proportion, every joint and limb rounded and well turned, their hands and feet small and delicate, and their gait by no means deficient in grace. "Their charms, however, are very fleeting. At an early period of life, and immediately after the first child, their breasts begin to grow loose and flaccid, and as old age approaches, become distended to an enormous size; the belly protrudes; and the hinder part swelling out to incredible dimensions, give to the spine a degree of curvature inwards that makes it appear as if the os coccygis , or bone at the lower extremity of the spine, was elongated and bent outwards, which is not the case." The appearance of the Bosjesmans ( q . v .), who are the most degraded tribe of the H. , is still more revolting. The language of the H. is quite as singular as their personal appearance. It has been called "the click language," and has also been compared to the clucking of a hen when she has laid an egg. The H. live in kraals or villages, consisting of a number of circular huts like bee-hives. They have both oxen and sheep, in the management of which they show great skill. They are also addicted to the chase, in which they use poisoned arrows, javelins, and spears. Of religion there appears to be but very little notion among the H. , and they have no particular observances at either births, marriages, or funerals. Dr. Prichard, however, observes of them: "Although Fig. 1325. - YOUNG HOTTENTOT. the wild tribes of the H. race display ferocity and all the other vices of savage life, yet we have abundant proof that these people are not insusceptible of the ble ings of civilization and Christianity. No uncultivated people appear to have received the instructions of the Moravian mi ionaries more readily than the H. , or to have been more fully reclaimed and Christian i zed." Capt. Wilkes of the U. S. exploring expedition, who visited Cape Town in 1842, says, "that in the Colony the H. do not bear a very high character for honesty and faithfulne . They are deemed an improvident race, though there are some instances of their showing great attachment to individuals who have treated them well." Their number is variously stated from 10,000 to 30,000. Hot'tentots' Bread, n . ( Bot .) See TAMUS. Hotto'nia, n. [In honor of Peter Hotton , profe or at the University of Leyden, D. 1709.] ( Bot .) A genus of plants, order Primulaceæ . They are fleshy, aquatic perennial herbs, with pectinate-pinnatifid, submersed, radical leaves. H. in flat a , the Water-Feather, is found in swamps and stagnant waters along the Atlantic States, from Ma achusetts to Florida.