Chapter Highlands of Scotland to Hippocampus of H by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Hind Emblematic of St. Giles, because "a heaven-directed hind went daily to give him milk in the desert, near the mouth of the Rhone." (See Hart.)
   The hind of Sertorius. Sertorius was invited by the Lusitanians to defend them against the Romans. He had a tame white hind, which he taught to follow him, and from which he pretended to receive the instructions of Dian'a. By this artifice, says Plutarch, he imposed on the superstition of the people.
   "He feigned a demon (in a hind concealed)
   To him the counsels of the gods revealed."
   Camoens: Lusiad, i
   The milk-white hind, in Dryden's poem, The Hind and the Panther, means the Roman Catholic Church, milk-white because "infallible." The panther, full of the spots of error, is the Church of England.
   "Without unspotted, innocent within,
   She feared no danger, for she knew no sin."
   Part i, lines 3, 4.

Hinda Daughter of Al Hassan, the Arabian ameer of Persia. Her lover, Hafed, was a Gheber or Fire- worshipper, the sworn enemy of Al Hassan and all his race. Al Hassan sent her away for safety, but she was taken captive by Hafed's party, and when her lover (betrayed to Al Hassan) burnt himself to death in the sacred fire, Hinda cast herself headlong into the sea. (T. Moore: The Fire-Worshippers.)

Hinder is to hold one behind; whereas prevent is to go before (Anglo-Saxon hinder, behind, verb hindrian).

Hindustan The country of the Hindûs. (Hind [Persic] and Sind [Sanskrit] means "black," and tan = territory is very common, as Afghanistan, Beloochistan, Farsistan, Frangistan, Koordistan [the country of the Koords], Kohistan [the high-country], Kafiristan [the infidel country], etc.)

Hindustan Regiment The 76th; so called because it first distinguished itself in Hindustan. It is also called the Seven and Sixpennies, from its number. Now the 2nd battalion of the West Riding, the 1st being the old No. 33.

Hinzelmann The most famous house-spirit or kobold of German legend. He lived four years in the old castle of Hudemühlen, where he had a room set apart for him. At the end of the fourth year (1588) he went away of his own accord, and never again returned.

Hip (To). A hip means a hypochondriac. To hip means to make melancholy; to fret; to make one dismal or gloomy with forebodings. Hipped means melancholy, in low spirits.

"For one short moment let us cease
To mourn the loss of many ships -
Forget how tax and rates increase,
And all that now the nation Hips."
Sims: The Dagonet Ballad. (A Set-off).

Hip and Thigh To smite hip and thigh. To slay with great carnage. A Hebrew phrase. (German, Arm und bein.)
    Perhaps there may be some reference to the superstition about the os sacrum (q.v.).

"And he smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter." - Judges xv. 8.

Hip! Hip! Hurrah! Hip is said to be a notarica, composed of the initial letters of Hierosolyma Est Perdita. Henri van Laun says, in Notes and Queries, that whenever the German knights headed a Jew-hunt in the Middle Ages, they ran shouting "Hip! Hip!" as much as to say "Jerusalem is destroyed." (See Notarica.)
   Timbs derives Hurrah from the Sclavonic hu-raj (to Paradise), so that Hip! hip! hurrah! would mean "Jerusalem is lost to the infidel, and we are on the road to Paradise." These etymons may be taken for what they are worth. The word hurrah! is a German exclamation also.
   "Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip" (Merchant of Venice); and again, "I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip" (Othello), to have the whip hand of one. The term is derived from wrestlers, who seize the adversary by the hip and throw him.

"In fine he doth apply one speciall drift.
Which was to get the pagan on the hip,
And having caught him right, he doth him lift
By nimble sleight, and in such wise doth trip,
That down he threw him."Sir J. Harington.

Hipper-switches Coarse willow withes. A hipper is a coarse osier used in basket-making, and an osier field is a hipper-holm.

Hippo Bishop of Hippo. A title by which St. Augustine is sometimes desigated. (354-430.)