in Scots law, lands, houses, or any immoveable subject, in contradistinction to moveables or moveable subjects. It also sometimes signifies such immoveable property as a person succeeds to as heir to another, in contradistinction to that which he himself purchases or acquires in any other manner, called compeuch.

HERMÆA, in antiquity, ancient Greek festivals in honour of the god Hermes or Mercury. One of these was celebrated by the Pheneatæ in Arcadia; a second by the Cyllenians in Elis; and a third by the Tanagraans, where Mercury was represented with a ram upon his shoulder, because he was said to have walked thro' the city in that posture in time of a plague, and to have cured the sick; in memory of which, it was customary at this festival for one of the most beautiful youths in the city to walk round the walls with a ram upon his shoulder.—A fourth festival of the same name was observed in Crete, when it was usual for the servants to sit down at the table while their masters waited; a custom which was also observed at the Roman Saturnalia.