I am inclined to believe that the hucho is to be found in some of the mountain loughs in Connaught. Certainly I have seen fish of the salmo genus, taken in rivers communicating with deep lakes in the hills, which strikingly resemble the fish described by Sir Humphry.—Salmonia—Editor.
Hue, s. Colour, dye; a clamour, a legal pursuit.
Hulk, s. The body of a ship; anything bulky and unwieldy.
Humblebee, s. A buzzing wild bee; an herb.
Humour, s. Moisture; the different kinds of moisture in man’s body. Humours of the eye are these—the aqueous or watery, which lies in the forepart of the globe; the crystalline, next to the aqueous; and the vitreous or glassy humour, which is larger than the rest, and fills the backward cavity of the eye.—Crabbe.
Hunt, v. To chase wild animals; to pursue, to follow close; to search for; to direct or manage hounds in the chase.
Hunting among the Britons is of great antiquity. Dio Nicæus, speaking of the inhabitants of the northern parts of this island, tells us, they were a fierce and barbarous people, who tilled no ground, but lived upon the depredations they committed in the southern districts, or upon the food they procured by hunting. Strabo also says, that the dogs bred in Britain were highly esteemed upon the continent, on account of their excellent qualities or hunting; and these qualities, he seems to hint, were natural to them, and not the effect of tutorage by their foreign masters.
After the expulsion of the Danes, and during the short restoration of the Saxon monarchy, the sports of the field still maintained their ground. Edward the Confessor, whose disposition seems rather to have been suited to the cloister than to the throne, would join in no other secular amusements; but he took the greatest delight, says William of Malmsbury, “to follow a pack of swift hounds in pursuit of game, and to cheer them with his voice.”
During the tyrannical government of William the Norman, and his two sons who succeeded him, the restrictions concerning the killing of game were increased. The privilege of hunting in the royal forests was confined to the king and his favourites; and, to render these receptacles for the beasts of the chase more capacious, or to make new ones, whole villages were depopulated, and places of divine worship overthrown.