Natural History Cooper scalp. Fig. 21. Gymnotus electricus:Electrical qmnote. Published by I. Harris, St Pauls cẠYd18n. Zebra is found in Africa, from Ethiopia to the Cape, where it is so timid that it flies from the face of man with the utmost rapidity. HORSE-GUARDS. See GUARD. Hosea, a canonical book of the Old Testament, and the first of the minor prophets. His propbecies are chiefly directed to the ten tribes before their eaptivity, threatening them with destruction in case of disobedience, but comforting the pious with the promise of the Messiah, and of the happy state of the church in the latter days. He is generally supposed to have prophesied from the year 785 to 725 before the Christian æra. Host, in church history, a contraction of hostia, a Latin word, signifying a victim, or sacrifice of fered to the Deity. In a general sense, the term is used to Jesus Christ, as an hostitia offered to the Father for the sins of mankind. In the church of Rome, the host is the consecrated wafer used in the sacrament of the Eucharist; which wafer, ve bread, being transubstantiated, as is taught into the real body and blood of Christ, is in that rite offered up a sacrifice a-new. Hour, in chronology, an aliquot part of a nycthen meron. In Europe, an hour is the twenty-fourth part of the nycthemeron ; and is subdivided into sixty minutes, or three hundred and sixty seconds In France, indeed, the pycthemerou, according to the new system, is divided into twenty hours; the, hour, into ten decimal minutes; and the minute into one hundred decimal seconds : making each hour to contain a thousand seconds. The most ancient bour is said to have consisted of the 12th part 1 of the nycthemeron ; that is, of two modern bours. ; |