Kauravas, for which the great war the Mahabharata was waged

It is said to have been founded by Hastin, son of the first Bharata: but probably the name means 'elephant city' (from hast in, elephant). The ruins are traceable about 57 miles northeast of Delhi. Hasting (hās'ting). [AS. Hæsten , Dan. Hasten .] Lived in the 9th century. A Scand in avian viking. He made incursions in France, Spain, England, and elsewhere, and was defeated by Alfred the Great in his invasion of England 893-897. Hastings (has'tingz). [ME. Has tinges , AS. Hæs ting as , also * Hæsting a ceaster (reflected in the Bayeux tapestry He sting a ceastra), city of the Hastings, a patronymic name.] A seaport, watering-place, and parliamentary borough in Su ex, England, situated on the English Channel 54 miles southeast of London. It is one of the Cinque Ports, and has a ruined castle. It forms practically one town with St. Leonard's. For the battle fought near Hastings (1066), see Senlac . Population (1901), 65,528. Hastings. A city and the capital of Dakota County, Minnesota, situated at the junction of the Vermilion with the Mi i ippi, 19 miles southeast of St. Paul. Population (1900), 3,811. Hastings. The capital of Adams County, southern Nebraska. Population (1900), 7,188. late Vicomte E. de Rougé in 1872. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs, etc., p. 261. Hatchway (hach'wa), Jack. In Smollett's "Peregrine Pickle," a retired naval officer, the friend and companion of Commodore Trunnion. Hat Creek Indians. See Atsugé . Hat field (hat'feld). A small town in Hertfordshire, England, 19 miles north-northwest of London. Near it is Hat field House, seat of the Marquis of Salisbury. Hat field Chase. A large tract of fenland (now rained) near Don caster in Yorkshire Hatha way (hath'a-wa), Anne. See Shakspere . Has or (hä'thor). In Egyptian mythology, an important deity, a female counterpart of Osiris, sometimes replacing him, and worshiped in all Egypt. She is with difficulty distinguishable from Isis, like whom she is the patrone of the cow and wears the solar disk with cow's horns. She had a great number of local forms and names. Hathorne (ha'thôrn), William. Born in Wilts hire, England, 1608: died at Salem, Ma ., 1681. An American colonial official. He emigrated to America in 1630; settled at Salem in 1636; was a member of the commi ion appointed by the general court of Ma achusetts Bay to treat with the French agent D'Aulney in 1645; was speaker of the general court of Ma achusetts Bay 1644-51; and was a member of the board of a istants 1662-79. He was one of the five patriots whom Charles II. ordered to be sent to England in 1666 to an swer to the charge of refusing to submit to the authority of the royal commi ioners. Hatras (hä-träs'), or Hathras (hä-thräs'). A trading town in the Aligarh district, Northwest Provinces, British India, situated in lat. 27° 36′ N., long. 78°5′ E. Population (1891), 39,181. Hatshepsu. See Hatasu . Hattemists (hat'em-ists). A sect in the Nether- Hastings, Francis Rawdon, first Marquis of lands, founded about 1683 by a deposed clergy Hastings. Born Dec. 9, 1754: died off Naples, Nov. 28, 1826. An English general. He served in the American war, during which he defeated the Americans at the battle of Hobkirk's Hill in 1781. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Rawdon in 1783; succeeded his father as earl of Moira in 1793; was appointed master-general of the ordnance 1806; was governor-general of India 1813-23; was created marquis of Hastings in 1816; and was governor of Malta 1824-26. Hastings, Warren. Born at Church ill, Oxfords hire, England, Dec. 6, 1732: died Aug. 22, 1818. An English statesman. He went out to Calcutta as a writer in the East India service in 1750; be came a member of the council at Calcutta in returned to England in 1764; went out as a member of the council at Madras in 1769; and became governor of Bengal in 1772, and first governor-general of India in 1774. In 1781 he expelled Raja Chait Singh, zemindar of Benares, who refused a demand for a war contribution against the Mahrattas; and in 1782 confiscated a portion of the lands and treasure of the mother of the Nawab of Oudh (the Begum of Oudh), who had rendered a istance to Chait Singh. He returned to England in 1785, and in 1787 was impeached on the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors, based chiefly on his conduct in reference to Chait Singh and the Begum of Oudh. The trial opened before the House of Lords in 1788, and resulted in an acquittal in 1795. man, Pont i an us van Hattem. The founder was a Spinozist who denied the expiatory sacrifice of Christ and the freedom of the will, and affirmed that sin exists only in the imagination, and is itself its only punishment. The sect disappeared in a few years. Hatter a ick (hat'er-āk), Dirk. A smuggler in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Guy Manner ing." Hatter as (hat'er-as), Cape. A sandy point on the coast of North Carolina, projecting into the Atlantic. Lat. of lighthouse, 35° 15′ 14" N.; long., 75° 31′17′′ W. Violent storms occur in the vicinity. Hattingen (hät'ting-en). A town in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, 22 miles northeast of Dü eldorf. Population (1890), commune, 7,248. Hatto (hät'tō) I. Archbishop of Mainz 891-913. He became regent of Germany on the acce ion of Ludwig the Child in 900, and continued to exercise a predominant influence in German politics until his death. He sought to strengthen the royal authority at the expense of an unruly nobility, a policy which caused him to be feared and hated by a considerable part of the people. According to a medieval legend, he was carried away by the devil and thrown into the crater of Etna.