Hosiery

A name given to hose or stockings, and of used now to include all kinds of knitted articles. exclusively Stocking-knitting was all done by the hand, until the William Lee, of Wood bridge, in Not ting hams hi i e, vibration OF COMMON THINGS 81 a knitting-frame. Many additions and have since been made, so that now only stockings and socks but nearly all articles hosiery are made by a knitting-frame of one or other. [Fr., from L. hospital i a, apartments strangers.] A building used for the reception sick persons, or for those who are unable to their own wants. Some hospitals are set entirely for the treatment of those suffering disease, others for incurables some for the; of children, and others as homes for poor and helple . Naval and military hos¬ are provided in all countries for the care of and soldiers. [Fr. OtageJ) A person left with an or hostile power as a pledge to secure the of the articles or conditions of a House. A building warmed by stoves or fur¬ for rearing exotics or tender plants. A is a garden bed covered with gla , to plants early in the season by the heat of the [AS.] A dog used for hunting. The staghound, and foxhound hunt only scent, and may be termed true hounds. To cla may be added the harrier and the bea¬ but the greyhound and the deerhound run; sight alone, and strictly speaking are not true [Fr., from L. hora, an hour.] A space of equal to 60 minutes, or to i-2qth part of a The hours of the civifday begin at midnight. 1885 the hours of the astronomical day at midnight, and are counted from o to 24. A kind of chronometer or instru¬ for measuring intervals of time. It is con¬ of gla , and consists of two bulbs, one the other, connected by a narrow neck. time is measured by the running of dry sand the one bulb to the other, the quantity adjusted to the time which each gla has constructed to indicate. In the case of an as much sand is placed in one bulb as take an hour to pa from it to the other. Hour-gla es were very much in use in churches the 16th and 17th centuries, and spec i¬ of very fine workmanship are still to be in several churches in England. (See Log.) A kind of linen with raised figures it, used for table-cloths and towels. A shrub of the Heath family which wild over most of the United States, and a palatable berry. There are several kinds, being low bushes, while the swamp blueberry several feet high, and bears a much larger The bill berry is the same as the blueberry. Whortleberry.) [Ger. hummel.] It is often called (See Bee.) The smallest and most beautiful all birds, found only in America, and almost tropical. They get their name from peculiar humming noise made by the rapid of their wings. The muscles of their 657