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a. [Ger. hocken.] To carry on the back, as a butcher carries a carca . Ho'gan, in Indiana, a flourishing township of Dear born co. Hogan, in North Carolina , a P. O. of Rocking ham co. Ho'ganite, n. ( Min .) Same as NATROLITE (q. v.). Ho'gan's, in Tenne ee , a post-office of Smith co. Hogans burg, in New York , a post-village of Franklin co., about 40 m. N.E. of Ogdensburg. Ho'gansville, in Georgia , a post-village of Troup co., about 13 m. N.E. of La Grange. Hoganville, in Kansas , a post-office of Graham co. Ho'garth, WILLIAM, a celebrated English artist and humorist, B. in London, 1697. He was apprenticed at an early age to Gamble, a silversmith, but at the expiration of his term, in 1718, he took to engraving in copper for the booksellers. In 1730 he married the only daughter of Sir James Thorn hill, against her father's consent, and set up for himself as a portrait-painter with considerable succe . H. now commenced his remarkable series of satirical paintings reflecting on the social abuses of his time:- viz., the Harlot's Progre in 1734; the Raked Progre in 1735; and the Marriage à la Mode in 1745, now in the National Gallery. In 1753 he appeared as the Fig . 1299,- HOGARTH'S HOUSE AT CHISWICK, (Eng.) author of Analysis of Beauty , written with a View of Fiz ing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste. In 1757 H. was ap pointed serjeant-painter to the king: he D. in London, Oct. 26th, 1764, and was buried at Chiswick. H. was a good painter as well as a great satirist. parish. Hog Branch, in Louisiana , a village of St. Helena Hog Creek, in Ohio , a village of Allen co. Hogestown, (ho'jes-town,) in Pennsylvania , a post village of Cumber land co., abt. 9 m. S.W. of Harris burg, Hog-gum, n. ( Bot .) See RHUS. Hog Head, a promontory on the W. coast of Ireland, at the mouth of the Kenmare River. Hog Islands, a small cluster of islets off the coast of co. Kerry, Ireland, near the embouchure of Kenmare River. Hog'-backed, a. Having a curved back like that of a hog, as a ship.