Hussites

(hus'itz.) (Eccl. Hist.) The followers of John Hu (q. v.), who avenged his death by one of the fiercest and most sanguinary civil wars ever known. They took the field under Ziska, 1418, gained the battle of Prague, in July 14, 1420, and nearly annihilated the Imperialists at Deutschsbrod, Jan. 8, 1422. After occupying the whole of Bohemia and Moravia, they threatened Vienna, and in 1426 gained the victories of Au ig and Mies. The emperor Sigismund was at length too glad to come to terms with the H., and the treaty of Iglau, in 1436, terminated hostilities between Catholic and Protestant for the time being. Hustings, (hüst'ingz.) [A. S. hus tinge-literally, a house of council.] (Eng. Law.) The principal municipal court of the city of London, held in the Guildhall before the Lord Mayor and aldermen.-(Eng. Fol.) The booth or elevated platform from which candidates at a parliamentary election are proposed or nominated, and from which they addre the electors before the show of hands is taken. Hutch in son, THOMAS, (huch'in-sn), B. in Boston, Ma ., 1711, became chief-justice of that colony in 1760, and governor in 1769. To his policy while holding the latter position may be attributed the precipitation of the War of the Revolution. He was author of a History of the Province of Ma achusetts Buy from 1628 to 1749 (2 vols., 8vo, 1764-7). D. in London, 1780. Hutch in son, (hüch'in-sün,) in Dakota Ter., a S.E. co.; area, 4,500 sq. m. Pop. 37. Huxley, THOMAS HENRY, (hüks'le,) an eminent English natural philosopher, B. at Ealing, near London, 1825. In 1854 he became prof. of paleontology in the School of Mines, and of physiology at the Royal Institution. In 1870 he was appointed President of the British A ociation for the Advancement of Science. Prof. H. stands in the first rank of living scientists, belongs to the Darwin i an school of naturalists, and is author, among other works, of History of the Oceanic Hydrozoa; Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy; and Protoplasm, or The Physical Basis of Life. Huy, (we,) a manuf. town of Belgium, p. Liege, on the Meuse, 15 m. W. of the city of Liege. Pop. 11,054. Huyghens, CHRISTIAN, (hi'gainz,) an eminent Dutch savant, B. at the Hague, 1629. After graduating at Leyden, he applied himself to scientific study and research; was the first to apply the pendulum to the mensuration of time; published in 1651 his Theorems on the Quadrature of the Hyperbola; and in 1659, his System of Saturn, in which he describes the ring of that planet, discovered by him. In 1669 he demonstrated the law of the impact of bodies, and in 1673 brought out his important work called Horologium Oscillatorium. In 1690 appeared his Treatise on the Cause of Gravity, and a Treatise on Light, in which he advanced the undulatory theory since generally conceded. To H. is attributed the invention of the spiral spring used in the regulation of watch-balances; and also the a ertion of the centrifugal theory in circular motion. D. 1695. (hi'ah-sinth.) (Greek Myth.) A beautiful youth beloved by Apollo and by Zephyr, the latter of whom is said to have slain him from jealousy. Apollo transformed him after death into the flower which bears his name, and he was long worshipped by the Spartans as a divinity.-(Bot.) See HYACINTH US.- (Min.) One of the names given to the yellow or brown crystals of zircon, which are found in the beds of streams or rivers, particularly in Ceylon. Its most usual form, as a crystal, is afour-sided prism, terminated by four rhombic planes. (hi-ah-sin'thus.) (Bot.) A well-known genus of very handsome bulbs, O. Liliacere, of which large numbers of garden varieties are grown in Holland for exportation. (hi'ah-deez.) (Myt.) Seven nymphs, daughters of Atlas, transformed by Jupiter into stars, and now forming part of the constellation Taurus. [s. 468]