a town of the Netherlands, in the province of West Flanders, and circle of Courtray. It stands on the right bank of the Lys, and on the chaussée from Cambrai to Ghent. It contains 3280 inhabitants.

HEMORRHAGY (compounded of aiqna, blood, and iynva, iynva, or iynva, to break, rend, or force asunder), in medicine, a flux of blood at any part of the body, arising either from a rupture of the vessels, as when they are too full or too much pressed, or from an erosion of the same, as when the blood is too sharp and corrosive. The hemorrhagy, properly speaking, as understood by the Greeks, was only a flux of blood at the nose; but the moderns extend the name to any kind of bloody flux, whether from the nose, mouth, lungs, stomach, intestines, fundament, matrix, or any other part.

HEMORRHOIDAL, an appellation given by anatomists to the arteries and veins running to the intestinum rectum.

HEMORRHOIDS, or PILES, an hemorrhage or issue of blood from the hemorrhoidal vessels.

HEMUS, EMINEH DAG, or Bulean, a lofty chain of mountains separating Thrace from Mæsia, and running from the sources of the Hebrus towards the east of the Black Sea. From its summit, it was said, the Euxine, the Adriatic, the Danube, and the Alps, could be seen at one view; and it was with the intention of beholding this magnificent prospect that Philip king of Macedon ascended the mountain. (Liv. xi. 21; Polyb. xxxiv. 10, 15; Strab. vii. 313.)

HERETICO COMBURENDO, a writ which anciently lay against a heretic, who, having once been convicted of heresy by his bishop, and having abjured it, but afterwards falling into it again, or into some other, is thereupon committed to the secular power.