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A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. Hers, pron. His. Hibernate, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hiberna- tion of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole win- ter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in Engla...nd, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottoms of the brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom on account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Escobius discovered in Central Asia a whole Digitized byVjOOQlC 188 THE COLLECTED WORKS nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a re- ligious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent author- ity, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any hon- ors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.
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