Gyptian (Saint), a vagrant.
Percase [perchance] sometimes St. Gyptian’s pilgrymage
Did carie me a month (yea, sometimes more)
To brake the bowres [to reject the food provided],
Bicause they had no better cheere in store.
G. Gascoigne, The Fruites of Warre, 100 (died 1557).
H. B., the initials adopted by Mr. Doyle, father of Richard Doyle, in his Reform Caricatures (1830).
H. H., Pen-name of Helen Hunt Jackson, authoress of Ramona, A Century of Dishonor, etc.
Hackburn (Simon of), a friend of Hobbie Elliott, farmer at the Heugh-foot.—Sir W. Scott, The Black Dwarf (time, Anne).