Hob Miller of Twyford, an insurgent.—Sir W. Scott, The Betrothed (time, Henry II.).
Hob or Happer, miller at St. Mary’s Convent.
Mysie Happer, the miller’s daughter. She marries Sir Piercie Shafton.—Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).
Hob´bididance (4 syl.), the prince of dumbness, and one of the five fiends that possessed “poor Tom.”—Shakespeare, King Lear, act iv. sc. 1 (1605).
⁂ This name is taken from Harsnett’s Declaration of Egregious Popish-Impostures (1561-1631).
Hobbie O’Sorbie´trees, one of the huntsmen near Charlie’s Hope farm.—Sir. W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time, George II.)
Hob´bima (The English), John Crome, of Norwich, whose last words were: “O Hobbima, Hobbima, how I do love thee!” (1769-1821).
Hob´bima (The Scotch), P. Nasmyth (1831- ).
⁂ Minderhout Hobbima, a famous landscape painter of Amsterdam (1638-1709).
Hobbinol. (See Hobinol).