in zoology, a species of wasp. See Vespa.

HORNING, in Scots law, a writing issuing from the signet, in his majesty's name, at the instance of a creditor against his debtor, commanding him to pay or perform within a certain time, under pain of being declared rebel, and by a caption put in prison.

HORNIUS (George), professor of history at Leyden, was born in the Palatinate, and died at Leyden in 1670. He was a little maniacal towards the end of his life; which disorder was supposed to be occasioned by the loss of 600 florins he had entrusted with an alchemist at the Hague. His works are, 1. Historia Ecclesiastica ad ann. 1666. This has been well esteemed. 2. De Originibus Americanis, 1652, 8vo. 3. Geographia Vetus & Nova. 4. Orbis Politicus. He was a man of vast reading, rather than great parts.