HIGH, in music, is sometimes used in the same sense
with loud, and sometimes in the same sense with acute.
Hian Dutch, is the German tongue in its greatest
purity, &c. as spoken in Misnia, &c.
Hian Operation, in chirurgery, is a method of ex-
tracting the stone; thus called, because the stone is
taken out at the upper part of the bladder. See SUR-
GERY.
Hian Places, were eminences on which the heathens
used to worship their gods, chosen for that purpose as
being supposed to be nearer heaven their constant resi-
dence. The Jews are frequently blamed for their at-
tachment to high-places, after the manner of the Gen-
tiles; though their profane were frequently upon
mountains with groves planted about them. Where
high-places are reprobated in scripture, therefore, we
should understand them as abused and prostituted to
idolatrous purposes. Before the temple was built,
there was indeed nothing in the high-places very con-
trary to the law, provided God only was adored there,
and that no incense or victims were offered to idols.
Under the judges they seem to have been tolerated;
and Samuel offered sacrifices in several places besides
the tabernacle, where the ark was not present. Even
in David's time, they sacrificed to the Lord at Shilo,
Jerusalem, and Gibeon; but after the temple was
built, and a place prepared for the fixed settlement of
the ark, it was no more allowed of to sacrifice out of
Jerusalem. Solomon, in the beginning of his reign,
went a pilgrimage to Gibeon; but from that time we
see no lawful sacrifices offered out of the temple.
Hian Priest. See PONTIFEX and PRIEST.
Hian Way, a free passage for the king's subjects:
on which account it is called the king's high way,
though the freehold of the soil belong to the owner of
the land. Those ways that lead from one town to an-
other, and such as are drift or cart ways, and are for
all travellers in great roads, or that communicate with
them, are high ways only; and as to their reparation,
are under the care of surveyors.