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ha, hae, hay, I, 299, 7, 9, 11; 330, A 6, B 6; 331, C 3, 6; D 6; 332, F 5; II, 74, E 6; 145, 27; V, [215], 9; [219], 20, 21; [221], 16, 22: have. See haed, haet.
ha, hall, I, 101, 14; 133, M 1; II, 371, 8; 387, 13; IV, 84, 5; V, [209] a, the last 2: house, manor-house. hall, IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, [247], 1, 2, must be hold, as in other versions; but in IV, 514, 15, 16, would be house, unless an error for hale, whole.
haad, v., II, 338, R 11: hold. See hand.
hachebord, hatchbord, III, 340, 36; 342, 70: would most naturally be interpreted gunwale, or side of the ship, and so archborde, 340, 23. But in 36 Sir Andrew lies at the hache-bord (which is hached with gold), and stern would be a better meaning for hachebord in that place, the high stern of the old ship being a conspicuous place for a captain to lie. See archborde. Barton lies a larborde in the York copy, IV, 504, 38, which is quite loose.
hached, the hache-bord is hached with gold, III, 340, 36: gilt (possibly inlaid).
haches, hatches, III, 341, 54, 57: deck, properly a frame of crossbars laid over an opening in a ship’s deck. (Skeat.)
had, ellipsis of, V, [274], 10, [had] rather [have] wedded, and [have] tralled, I [had] rader.
had, haad==hold. See haud.
hadden, p. p., I, 402, 4, 6: held.
hadno, had not.
hads, hads slaine, III, 358, 61: the s in hads is perhaps caught from slaine. Other readings are had, hadeste.
hae, have. See ha.
hae, II, 97, 18: correct to has; cf. drees, 17.
haed, II, 110, 33: had.
haely. See haly.
haet, hayt, haȝt, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 110, 20; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath.
hafe-gate. See half-gate.
hagg-worm, II, 503: a monstrous snake.
haghty, V, [219], 21: haughty.
ha-house, manor-house.
haik ye up, IV, 219, 13: keep you in suspense (from hake, a frame on which fish are hung to be dried?), or, haik, to drag up and down to little purpose (Jamieson), “bear in hand,” delude with false hopes?
hail, III, 163, 77: whole, wholly. See hale.
hail, II, 151, H 1; 256, K 5: conceal. See heal.
hailing (Old Eng. halen==Germ. ziehen, draw, move), denoting rapid motion, driving, rushing. wind come hailing, II, 22, 9. ship come hailing, IV, 402, 15, 25. went hailing to the door, hailing ben the floor, hailing through the closs, IV, 422 f, 11, 15, 18; V, [279] a, No 257, 11. Of tears and blood falling fast, tears came hailing down, II, 407, 14; drops o blude came hailing to the groun, II, 418, 31. See halling.
hailing at the ba’, II, 269, 8: playing foot-ball. Hail the ba is specifically drive the ball to or beyond goal.
haill. See hale.
hailsed, I, 333, 2: greeted.
hain, II, 92, 17, strong participle of have (haven), wald hain==would (have) had.
haind grass, II, 465, 7 (spared, preserved): grass kept from cutting or pasturing.
hair, hire.
haisling, IV, 46, B 9, come haisling to the town; cf. hailing, proceeding. (Perhaps miswritten; Hill Burton’s hand is not always careful.)
halch, halch vpon, I, 294, 18, 20; III, 419 f., 7, 37: salute, bestow a salutation on.
hald. See hauld, hold.
hale, haill, hail, haylle, hell, II, 28, 23; 80, 15; III, 296, 23; IV, 379, 11; 380, 20; 381, 8; 382, 13; V, [276], 14, 15: whole, in sound condition. III, 163, 77; 299, 3: wholly.
Haleigh, as he was walking the Haleigh throw, I, 76, E 6: ha-lee, the lea of the hall?
halfendell, III, 75, 382: the half part.
half-gate, hafe-gate, II, 313, 14, 16: half-way.
halke, III, 74, 366: corner, hiding-place.
hall, house, manor-house. See ha.
hall, either in archbord or in hall, he wold ouercome you, III, 340, 29: hull?
hall, hold. See hauld.
hall, IV, 514, 15, 16: perhaps written for hale; in any case meaning whole.
hallan, V, [99], 2: in cottages a wall between the fireplace and the door, to shelter from the air (extending only as far as is thought requisite for that purpose).
halld. See hauld.
hallë, V, [236], 23: hollo! or, perhaps, simply halle==hail.
halled, V, [270], 11: hailed, saluted.
halleen, V, [197], 9: holly. See hollen.
halling, come halling to the town, V, [277] f., 15, 25. See hailing.
hallow, haly, II, 175, 16; 239, 1: holy.
hallow, good hallow, II, 270, 10: a form of salutation; perhaps, God hallow, sanctify, cleanse us from sin! perhaps simply an elliptical Good saint! I have not met the phrase elsewhere, and it seems no longer to be familiar in Scotland.
Hallowday, I, 342, 25; 507, 1; III, 246, E 1: saints’ day, All Saints.
hallow seat, I, 367, 7: a saint’s place.
hals-bane, hass-bane, hause-bane, hase-bane, I, 394, 8: neck-bone.
halse, I, 327, 10: neck. See hause.
haly, haely, hallow, II, 104, 22; 175, 16; 179, 13; 239, 1; 417, 13; III, 262, 5: holy.
halycon, come halycon to the town, III, 434, E 3: in a rollicking, or a boisterous, turbulent way. North Eng. hallacking, making merry; Scottish hallach, hallokit, crazy.
halyde, hauled.
hame, bring hame, bear a child. See bring.
hame, home, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5: was born.
hame, gae hame, III, 398, A c after 3: that is, to the heaven where you belong. seek your lover hame, IV, 174, 11: go for and bring.
hame-gaun, I, 72 f., 11, 66: home-going (to go home),
hamesucken, IV, 244 b: invasion of a private house.
hand, att hand of, III, 278, 30: nearly, about; cf. Old Eng. nearhand. (stroke) behind his hand, II, 63, 24: seems to be intended for backhanded.
hand for hand, III, 465, 34; 466, 48: in a fair match? (hand to hand, 468, 48.)
hand, lokyde at his hand, III, 307, 10: probably, shading his eyes with his hand; possibly, looked aside. Cf. lookit aneath (below) the sun, III, 5, D 7; 6, 6; 8, 6.
hand, on the upper, II, 245, 29: side, uppermost (see II, 247, 32; 254, 22).
hand, out of, III, 440, 25: forthwith? (The line seems to be corrupted; without resource, unable to help themselves, hors de combat, would give an easier sense if allowable.) Should we read: as many as was, out of hand?
hand-write, III, 455, 8, 9, 11; V, [300], 10, 16, 19: handwriting.
hang, pret. of hing, to hang, I, 327, 23 (hange); 448, 5; 451, 9; II, 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38.
hang down, III, 483, D 9: unintelligible to me, whether hang or gang. ding down? (drown my mare and thee, III, 492, 26; 493, 15.)
hanging well, III, 440, 17: draw-well of which the bucket is raised and lowered by a pole or beam turning on an upright post? By some understood as, a well near the place of execution.
hankit, I, 224, J 2, 8: tied tight.
hansell, haffe hansell for the mare, III, 111, 32: have a present, the more you buy? have the first purchase (which was thought lucky) for the larger part (of the ware)? (Doubtful.) III, 284, 10: reward. V, [112], B b 9: used in Galloway of a piece of bread given before breakfast (Jamieson); here apparently of a draught of ale given early in the morning.
hantle, II, 337, 11: a large number.
hap, happing, cover, coverlet: IV, 65, 7; 258 f., 5, 20.
hap, v., I, 15, 18; 299, 5; IV, 233, 2: cover, wrap.
hap, v., IV, 483 b, after 12: hop.
happer, hopper.
happing. See hap.
harbengers, III, 198, 2: harbingers, officers who preceded the king in a progress to provide accommodation for the court.
harl, harl her thro the lin, I, 303, D 4: drag. See haurld.
harme, III, 357, 50: sorrow.
harnessed (men), III, 62, 133: equipped.
harns, V, [201], note ‡: brains, harn-pan, brain-pan, skull.
harried, haryed, pret. and p. p., III, 295, 4, 6; 296, 12; IV, 6, 9, 14, etc.; V, [250], 9, 13: plundered. See herry.
harte of gre(e)ce, III, 27, 105; 124, 3, 4: a fat hart.
hartinge, IV, 504, 31: encouragement.
hart-roote, II, 241, 27: (Icel. hjarta-rœtr, pl., Old Eng. heorte rotes, heart-roots, -strings) term of affection.
has be, I, 86, 24: as if for future (see s, us, etc.); but shall in 7, 16, and sall in b.
hase, halls.
hase, hass, neck, throat. See hause.
hase-bane, hass-bane. See hause-bane.
hast, V, [78], 12: am in haste (as well as þow hast, hastest).
hastëly, hastilye, III, 74, 376; 75, 392; 405, 20: immediately, soon, promptly.
hat, pret. of hit, I, 299, 5; III, 350, 50.
hatches==deck: III, 335 b; IV, 505, 57. See haches.
hather, III, 424 b; 425 a: heather.
haud, had, hawd, haad, howd, I, 21 b, 3, 4; 74, 75; 341, 12; 354, 17; 421, 4, 8, 11; II, 70, 17; 74, D 7; 463, 24, 25; III, 491, 9; V, [296], 1, etc.; [304] b, 3: hold, keep. pret. had, II, 371, 7. p. p. hadden, I, 402, 6; hauden, II, 161, 7.
haud me unthought lang, IV, 260, 10: keep me without the time seeming long, interested, entertained.
haugh, low ground, properly on the border of a river: III, 9, G 10; 483, 5; IV, 3, 17; 77, 3; 273, C 7; V, [250], 20, 21.
hauld, hald, halld, hall, hold, III, 281, 1; 371, 33; 433, 1, 2; 434, 1, 2; 436, 1; IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, [247], 1, 2: place of shelter, stronghold, quarters. See hold.
hauld, I, 359, 9, gang by the: walk by taking hold of things. gang by haulds, III, 162, 46.
hauping, II, 463, 16: hopping, hobbling.
haurld==harld, V, [99], C 5: dragged.
hause, hase, hass, halse, I, 149, H 1; 327, 10; II, 165, 22; 319, 3; 366, 38; III, 163, 75; V, [184], 44: neck, throat.
hause-bane, hase-bane, hass-bane, hals-bane, I, 394, 8; 395, B 3; II, 146, 14; 147, 15; IV, 165, 15; 447 b, after 13; 448 a, 2d stanza; V, [204] b: neck-bone.
have, ellipsis of. would been, I, 169, 7. I wad taen, I, 356, 54, 55. shuld I slain, II, 169, 7. ye widna kept, III, 390, 10. I woud not swum, III, 489, 42. I should, might, enjoyd, IV, 135, 23; 137, 32. he woud guarded me, IV, 148, 55. they taen, IV, 221, D 7. as muckle as wald bocht, IV, 386, 18. I seen’t, IV, 465, 31. euer I seene, V, [53], 105. seem[d] to worn, V, [55], 26. he’ll learned, V, [196], 53. had rather lost, V, [302], 17.
have==proceed, go. have in (to water), have over, III, 128, 76, 77.
have==provide or procure that a thing is done. hae me hame, II, 82, 54; hae me to the town, II, 122 f., 4, 28: take.
have in, had him in, II, 216, 8: had him in my possession (Germ. innehaben)?
have (on the skynne), III, 127, 60: get a blow.
haw, green haw sea, II, 28, 21; IV, 379, 10, 14; 380, 19: bluish. “azure; pale, wan;” Jamieson. (A. S. hæwen, glaucus, caeruleus. Old Eng. hawe, haa.) green raw sea, II, 30, 6, is a corruption; I have been lately informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw. In haw bayberry kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4, there is again corruption; as in the same passage of other versions.
hawd. See haud.
hay, II, 160, 18: for hae, has.
hay, went forth to view the hay, IV, 233, 1; 238, 1: to see how the hay was coming on, as a way of taking the air.
hay, IV, 225, 15; V, [261] a, No 221, G 22; hays, 16: in Maidment’s text, lea, leas, probably right, hays making no reasonable sense.
haylle, III, 296, 23: whole, entire. See hale.
hayt, haȝt, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath. See haet.
he, him, she, her, with proper names (almost always him, her): like Icelandic hann, hón (hún) (“so frequent in modern conversational usage that a person is scarcely ever named without the pronoun,” Vigfusson.) out and spak he Sweet Willie, II, 108, 19; 185, 33. sighing said he Love Robbie, 370, 8. up and raise he Sweet Willie, 108, 15. up and raise he the bridegroom, 108, 13. up and stands she Fair Annie, 189, 32. whare it is him Sir Colin, 61, 1; so 147, 16. out it speaks him Young Bondwell, I, 479, 41; so II, 418, 25; 419, 37, 53. sighing says him Brown Robyn, II, 371, 8, 9. leugh him Childe Vyet, 134, 21. out it spake her Dow Isbel, II, 97, 21; so 418, 34. out spoke her Lady Frendraught, IV, 44, 12. out waked her May Meggie, 188, 14. it was her May Catheren, II, 145, 25. sighan says her Susë Pay, V, [219], 17. Etc., etc. Cf. Chaucer in, he Iakke Straw, he Theodomar, he Pluto,==perhaps, ille; but not, him Arcite, Knight’s Tale, 352, 475.) with the objective case: as, sought her Lady Maisry, II, 114, 3, 4, 10; 154, 11, 24, 26, 27; 370, 18; etc. (Him, her, with verbs of motion may possibly be a relic of the old use of a dative, and such cases are not included.)
he, I, 242, 12; III, 13, 4, 8: they.
he, hee, III, 307, 4: high.
header, heather.
heal, healle, hail, I, 453, 9; II, 145, 26; 146, 9, 10; 154, 13, 14; 155, 37: conceal.
healy, hooly, adj., gentle.
healy, heely, hooly, slowly, gently: II, 94, 15; 110, 22, 23.
heans, hens.
heard, V, [253] f., No 203, D 2, 8: hired.
hearten, IV, 444, 32: encourage.
heathen (child), II, 246, 13: unbaptized.
heathennest, I, 284, 15: heathendom.
heather-cow(e), I, 302, A 9; 304, E 8, F 8; 305, 14; V, [173], 8; [174], C 2; [213], 8; heather-crow, I, 301, note *: tuft or twig of heather.
heather-knaps, V, [173], 8: heather hillocks, knolls.
hech and how, III, 392, 13: to utter these interjections of grief.
heckle, IV, 247, 12; 248, 17: hackle, flax-comb (board set with sharp steel spikes).
hecks, IV, 319, I, 5: racks.
hee. See he.
heely, II, 220, 21: slowly. See healy.
heer, heir, heire, I, 301, 3; 303, C 3; 304, E 2: the sixth part of a hank of yarn, 240 threads.
hegehen, I, 333, 3: eyen, eyes.
heght, IV, 179, A 1: promised.
heigh a ween, and Oh a ween! interjections of grief, II, 504, 27. a ween is probably I ween.
height, heihte, hight, hith, heiste, hette, I, 244, 10; IV, 503, 11, 14; V, [288], 18: was, is, called.
heir, heire. See heer.
heiste. See height.
hele==heal, conceal.
hell==whole, staunch, tight, V, [276], 14, 15. See hale.
hell, heel.
helt, IV, 457, 22: pret. of hile: hailed.
heme, III, 434, 27, 28: home.
hempten, V, [87], 11: hempen.
hend, hendë, heynd, hind, hindy, III, 57, 25: noble, gracious. lady hende, of the Virgin, III, 68, 251. hend soldan, II, 59, 36, 37: noble, of rank. III, 110, 27; V, [49], 12: friendly, kindly. I, 71, 41(?); 329, 57: fine-looking. III, 98, 41: civil. See hind.
hende, I, 71, 41 (gallant hende): hind, young fellow? The adjective, of noble rank, courteous, kindly, is less likely.
hent, III, 110, 14; 123, 8, 10: caught, took.
hepe, III, 66, 204: hip (as II, 273, 35), berry of the wild rose.
herbere, I, 327, 32: garden.
herkeneth, herkens, imperative plural, III, 81, 317; 109, 2.
herowed, herowed hell, III, 25, 63: harried, despoiled. See harried, herry.
herry, II, 261, 7; III, 473, 23; IV, 26, 2: harry, pillage, rob. See harried.
hersed, V, 156, 15: rehearsed, repeated praise of?
hership, IV, 41, note *: plundering.
he se. See -s as sign of future.
het, eat.
het, hot.
hethyne, I, 329, 58: hence.
hett, I, 271, 5: bid.
hette, I, 224, 10: is called. See height.
heuch, heugh, I, 312, 13; II, 503 f., 11, 15, 28; IV, 231, I 15: steep hill or bank, glen with steep overhanging sides.
heved, I, 243, 7; III, 70, 290 (?): head.
hewene, V, [283], 15: heaven.
hey, I, 438, B 1: interjection of pleasure, displeasure, pain, excitation. (Not the dance which is called the hay.)
heye, III, 482, 21: hie.
heyer, hyer, compar., V, [283], 5, 15: higher.
heynd, III, 110, 27: friendly, kindly. See hend, hind.
heyng, pret. of hang, V, [78], 4.
heyt war howte! III, 111, 28: heyt! is a well-known call to horses, as in Chaucer (get up!), and war-oute is a term used in driving, according to Halliwell’s Dictionary.
hi, I hi, III, 349, 46: have. I hinna, II, 469, 28: have not.
hich, high.
hide, II, 467, 44, 50: should probably be heed, as written by Motherwell.
hie, hye, n., I, 328, 37; II, 164, 9, 12; III, 99, 50: haste.
hie, she smiled hie, V, [51], 55: with a smile not confined to her mouth, but mounting higher.
hiean, II, 147, 2: hying.
hiesed, IV, 424, b 7, 8: hoised, lifted, dragged.
high-gate, V, [239], O 4: high-road.
highman, I, 203, C 16, 17. In a 16, the reading is hymen, which is in itself plausible, but not ballad-like. If highman is right, the meaning would seem to be, the chief man of the occasion, the bride-groom.
hight, III, 441, 30: is, was, called. See height.
hight, III, 309, 34: I promise. pret. heght, hight, III, 407, 17.
hile, v., IV, 456, 17: hail. pret. helt, 457, 22.
hill-gate, IV, 249, F 4: hill-road.
hilt, V, [76], 21: flayed.
him. him, hym come, I, 244, 10, 13, 17; up stod him, 15, 16: dative of subject after verb of motion. stert hym, III, 62, 120. wente hym, III, 62, 126. rade him, IV, 2, 5. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18.
hin-chill, V, [278], 33. See hind-chiel.
hinchman, III, 320, A b 16: henchman, servant (man who stands at the hinch, haunch).
hind, hinde, hindy, hynde, adj., courteous, gracious, gentle, kindly: I, 430, 5, 9; II, 177 f., 20, 35; III, 310, 52; 358, 69. See hend.
hind, hynde, n. (A. S. hína, O. Eng. hine, servant), youth, chiel, callant, seems often to be used as an epithet==young (but this may possibly be hind==kindly courteous, etc., in some cases). Hynde Etin, I, 369 f., 3, 5, etc. (called Young Akin in A 367, 6, etc., Young Hastings the groom in C, 371, 3). Hind Henry, II, 305 f., 6, 18, etc.; Hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8, etc. hind-chiel, hin-chill, hynd-chiel, I, 367, 3; II, 83, after 38; IV, 432, 15; V, [278], 33. hind-greeme, I, 69, 51. hind-squire, I, 452, C 10; 453, 7; hynde squire, V, [25] f., 2, 13, 19, etc. hine-squar, V, [278], 29 (called young squar in 18). In all three, both parts signify young fellow.
hind, gane hind away, II, 248, 5==hyne away, far away.
hindy. See hind.
hing, II, 194, 22, 27; 239, 6; III, 299, 6; V, [226], 4: hang. pret. hang, hanget. p. p. hanged, hangit.
hingers, V, [40], 4: hangings.
hinna, I hinna will, II, 469, 28: I have not will, I wish it may not.
hinnie, hinny, honey, IV, 66, 15; 69, 15; 70, 12; 72, I 5: term of affection.
hinnie-mark, honey-mark, IV, 479, 7: mole? (cf. Germ. honigflecken, yellow spot.)
hinny-drap, II, 283, 5: mole?==hinnie-mark.
hire, a yearl’s hire, II, 191, 20: rent, revenue.
hirewoman, IV, 202, J 3: female servant. hired your han, IV, 240, 14, if right, must mean, she would have paid you to do it. Other copies, kissed.
hirn, I, 334, 9: corner.
hirpling, II, 474, 8; 476, 3: halting.
hisn, V, [293], 14: his.
hith, I, 334, 7: hight, am called. See height.
ho, who.
hochis, III, 306 b, note *: hocks.
hoe, IV, 19, 7: (as a singular of hose) stocking.
hoes, IV, 486, 7, 8: as plural of hoe (?).
hog, II, 258, 32; IV, 325, 6, 7; 328, 3, 4; 332, 13; 469, 10, 12: young sheep that has not yet lost a fleece.
hog-rubber, IV, 208 a: (seemingly) a fellow employed to rub down hogs, or fit for such business.
hoised, hoisd, hoist, I, 206 f., 9, 11; IV, 248, 2, 5; V, [132], 7, pret. of hoise, heave, lift, drag.
hoky-gren (burnt like), II, 145, A 27: hoakie, “a fire that has been covered up with cinders, when all the fuel has become red.” Jamieson. A branch or stem in such a fire? or good to make such a fire with? Scott has, hollins grene.
hold, holde, hauld, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29; III, 358, 74; 430, 1; 435, 1: housing, quarters, place of shelter, lodging. thirty horsses in one hold, II, 444, 59: perhaps place of keeping (450, 64, in one close). See hauld.
hold, holde, v., III, 97, 11; 176, 5, 6: wager.
holde, III, 61, 93, 107: retain (legally).
hole-house, I, 305, 3; V, [213], 3: said in depreciation of an humble sort of house (hole of a house), as a divot-house, a turf-cottage. (Still in use. W. Walker.)
hollan, hollin, holland, linen.
Hollan, Hollans, boats, I, 467, 18, 22: Dutch boats. Dutch fishing-luggers are to be seen in great numbers on the Scottish coast in summer.
hollan, holland, of holly, hollan dyke, II, 195, 32: wall planted on the top with holly.
hollen, hollin, I, 294 f., 15, 27; II, 153, 29; V, [191] f., 3, 18: holly. (Perhaps hollin’s, V, 194, 2, should be hollins.)
hollie, V, [111], 16: (slowly) softly. See hooly.
hollin, holland.
holm, holme, houm, howm, III, 460, 38; 488 f., 31, 34, 41; IV, 522, 4, 10: low ground on a river-bank.
holpe, pret. of help, III, 342, 76. See hope.
holtes, III, 296, 14; 357, 53: woods.
holydame, by my, III, 209, 7: halidom. Originally halidom in oaths meant reliques of saints; my halidom seems to be used in the sense of sacred oath. (Printed holy dame in three copies, and very likely often so understood.)
hom, V, [304] b, 2, 4: home.
hom, III, 308, 26: them.
home, hame, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5; was born. See bring hame.
hondert, hondreth, hondrith, hundred.
honey, term of endearment. See hinny.
honey-mark, II, 282, 12: mole? See hinnie-mark, hinny-drap.
honey month, she has turned the honey month about, to see if he was coming, IV, 320, J 2: inexplicable.
hongyr, V, [283], 16: hunger.
honour’s gate, II, 163, 21: (honour, a manor, the mansion-house of a manor) an imposing gate, such as would be put at the principal entrance to a mansion-house. W. Macmath.
hooding. See huddin.
hook, IV, 19 f., C 3, 8: loop.
hook-tooth, I, 18, F 9: tooth of a sickle with serrated edge.
hooly, adj., II, 107, 9: slow, gentle.
hooly, hoolie, hollie, huly, adv., slowly, softly: I, 451, 12; II, 108, 10; 111, 10; III, 393, 14. See healy.
hope, houp, IV, 25, 4; 27, 12; 184, 2, 3: “a deep and pretty wide glen among hills.” Jamieson.
hope, pret., V, [103], A c 14: holp, helped. See holpe.
hope, I, 327, 12; 449, 17; II, 311, 6; V, [54], 3: expect, think.
hore, hoar, gray, grenë wode hore, holtes hore, III, 65, 176; 357, 53: gray as to trunks.
horne and lease, III, 360, 113. See Pegge, Archæologia, III, 1, 1775, “Of the horn as a charter or instrument of conveyance.” Professor Gross, of Harvard College, has favored me with the following case: “Pro quo officio [i. e. coroner and escheator of the Honor of Tutbury] nullas evidentias, carta vel alia scripta, proferre possit nisi tantum cornu venatorium.” The possession of this horn still conveys the right to hold the office. Cf. J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, London, 1890, I, 73-79.
horse-brat, I, 302, B 10: horse-cloth (horse’s sheet, horse-sheet, of A 13, F 4).
hose, I, 285, 38: embrace, hug (halse, Scottish hawse).
hosen, hose, III, 65, 193: stockings (not breeches; see 196).
hosens, IV, 257, 3: stockings without feet.
hostage, III, 271, F 10; hostage-house, 4, 5, 8, 9: inn.
hosteler-ha, III, 270, E 3, 4, 5, 7: inn.
hostess-house (==hostage-house), IV, 175, N 4: inn.
hostler, III, 266 f., 4, 6, 9, 10; V, [153] f., A 3, 4, B 3-5; [156] b, B: innkeeper.
hostler-wife, IV, 508 1; V, [154], 3: woman keeping an inn.
houk, V, [218], 5: dig. Pret. and p. p. houked, houket, houkit, howket, etc., I, 184, 9; 220, A 2, B 4, C 4; 221 f., E 7, 17; III, 500 b, 8; IV, 451 a, 3, 5; V, [210], 9.
houl, III, 247, 5: hold.
houm, howm, holm, I, 394, 14; III, 370, 5; IV, 168, E 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12; 523, 3, 5: level low ground on a river-bank.
hound, IV, 19, 4; 20, 9: chase, drive.
houp, hope, IV, 2, 13: (A. S. hóp) sloping hollow between two hills.
hour, whore.
house, V, [273], No 237, 20: hose.
housen, II, 3, 10; 5 b, 2: house (sing.).
house-end, -en, I, 254, b 1, c 1: gable.
housle, houzle, II, 46, 46; III, 330, 13: give the sacrament.
houzle, III, 105, 22, 23: communion.
hove, hove hole, I, 304, F 2: a hole which one haunts or lives in.
hoved, III, 296, 20: hung about, tarried.
hoved on, III, 358, 69: moved on (hied, 362, 69).
hoves, V, [227], 4: hoofs.
how, how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.
how, howe, n., III, 164, b 49; 316 a, last line; IV, 110, 10; 303, 7: hollow, sometimes, plain.
how, adj., IV, 476 a, 4: hollow.
how, III, 392, 11, 13 (as verb): exclamation of grief.
howbeit, III, 450 a: although.
howd, hold. See haud.
howded, V, [124], C 15: swung.
howk, howked, etc. See houk.
howm. See houm.
howre, V, [78], 5, 6; [79], 28, 33, 35; [80], 37: our.
howther o dirt, II, 184, 13: a mass of dirt.
howyn, own.
hoyse, hoise, II, 26, 8: hoist.
huddin, hooding (hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262, 30; 266, 15: covering, coverlet.
huddle, II, 246, B 7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot. hiddle, hide).
huggar, I, 303, D 5: stocking without a foot.
huggell, II, 244, 16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of huddle.
huly, hooly, healy, II, 168, B 4; 169, 12; 216, 2; IV, 413, 18; 436, 8: slowly, softly.
humming, III, 136, 30: heady, strong, as causing a hum in the head.
hunder, hundre, hunner, huner, hundredth, hundred.
hunger, hungre, v., II, 382, 4; 386, 4; 387, 2; 391, 2: starve.
hunkers, V, [213], 9==clunkers, clots of dirt.
hunt’s ha, I, 298, 2: hunting-house or lodge.
husbande, husbonde, III, 57, 13; 295, 1: farmer, husbandman. III, 58, 46: economist, manager.
hussyfskap, husseyskep, V, [98], A 3, B 3: housewifery (she was making puddings). But perhaps, specifically, hussyskep, a sort of basket or bin of straw, formerly used, especially in ruder districts, for holding corn or meal. In like manner, a “platted hive of straw” is called a bee-skep. G. F. Graham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 181.
hy, hye, hyght, on, vpon, III, 296, 9; 297, 31, 47, 48; 359, 91: in a loud voice. on hy, hye, III, 309, 51; 297, 45: on high, up, erect. on hyght, III, 297, 34: on high.
hye, hie, n., I, 328, 37; III, 99, 50: haste.
hyer, heyer, compar., V, [283], 5, 15: higher.
hyf, V, [283], 4: if.
hyghte, I, 328, 36: promise, hyght, p. p., III, 297, 29: promised; III, 77, 442: vowed.
hym, wente hym, stert hym, III, 62, 120, 126: dative of subject after verb of motion. See him.
hyndberry, I, 177, A c: raspberry or brambleberry.
hynd-chiel. See hind.
hynde, n., III, 64, 164: fellow. hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8, etc.; hynde squire, V, [25] f., 2, 13, 19, etc. See hind, n.
hynde, adj., II, 177 f., 20, 35: gentle, or the like. See hind, adj.
hyne, II, 314, C 3: (up) behind.
hyne, II, 314, C 3: hence, away.
hypped, III, 77, 429: hopped.