HERBED, s. A Parsee priest, not specially engaged in priestly duties. Pers. hirbad, from Pahlavi aêrpat.
1630.—"The Herbood or ordinary Churchman."—Lord's Display, ch. viii.
HICKMAT, s. Ar.—H. ḥikmat; an ingenious device or contrivance. (See under [HAKIM].)
1838.—"The house has been roofed in, and my relative has come up from Meerut, to have the slates put on after some peculiar hikmat of his own."—Wanderings of a Pilgrim, ii. 240.
HIDGELEE, n.p. The tract so called was under native rule a chakla, or district, of Orissa, and under our rule formerly a zilla of Bengal; but now it is a part of the Midnapūr Zilla, of which it constitutes the S.E. portion, viz. the low coast lands on the west side of the Hoogly estuary, and below the junction of the Rūpnārāyan. The name is properly Hijilī; but it has gone through many strange phases in European records.
1553.—"The first of these rivers (from the E. side of the Ghauts) rises from two sources to the east of Chaul, about 15 leagues distant, and in an altitude of 18 to 19 degrees. The river from the most northerly of these sources is called Crusna, and the more southerly Benkora, and when they combine they are called Ganga: and this river discharges into the illustrious stream of the Ganges between the two places called Angeli and Picholda in about 22 degrees."—Barros, I. ix. 1.
1586.—"An haven which is called Angeli in the Country of Orixa."—Fitch, in Hakl. ii. 389.
1686.—"Chanock, on the 15th December (1686) ... burned and destroyed all the magazines of salt, and granaries of rice, which he found in the way between Hughley and the island of Ingelee."—Orme (reprint), ii. 12.
1726.—"Hingeli."—Valentijn, v. 158.
1727.—... inhabited by Fishers, as are also Ingellie and Kidgerie (see [KEDGEREE]), two neighbouring Islands on the West Side of the Mouth of the Ganges."—A. Hamilton, i. 275; [ed. 1744, ii. 2].