Horn’sord in (Ger.)

Mute for a horn, Hosan’na; Hosian’na (Hebr.) Lit. “save, I Py, ”; an interjection used as a prayer for deliverance or as an acclamation.—In the Ma , a part of the Sanctus. Hue’huetl (Aztec.) (Also Auchuitl, vevtl, apanhuchuetl) Drum of the aborigines in Mexico and Central America, consisting of a section of a log hollowed out, carved on the outside, from 3 to 4 feet in height, as thick as a man’s body, and set upon a tripod. ‘The upper end was furnished with a head of leather or parchment which could be tightened or telaxed, thus raising or lowering the fone. Tt was struck with the fingers, and considerable skill was required to play it. From the indistinct accounts of the old Spanish writers it appears to have yielded, in conjunction with the Teponastli, arude harmonic ba accompaniment.