Gyte, s. dress, perhaps skirt or mantle, A 3954; Gytes, pl. D 559. See note to A 3954; cf. gyde in Jamieson's Dict., where the sense is dress, skirt, or mantle. Gascoigne uses gite in the sense of dress in his Philomena, l. 117: 'A stately Nimph, a dame of heauenly kinde, Whose glittering gite so glimsed in mine eyes, As yet I not what proper hew it bare.'
Ha! ha! interj. B 4571.
Haberdassher, s. seller of hats,
A 361. 'The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hattes;' Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre, st. 64.
Habergeoun, s. a hauberk or coat of mail, A 76, 2119, B 2051; Haubergeons, pl. I 1052. O.F. hauberjon, small hauberk, dimin. of hauberc, a hauberk.
Habit, s. (1) habit, A 1378; Habite, disposition, mood, B 3. p 1. 16; practice, B 4. p 4. 195; Habit (2), dress, L. 214; Habite (better Habit), T. i. 170.
Habitacioun, s. dwelling-place, A 2926.
Habitacle, s. habitable space, B 2. p 7. 36; Habitacles, pl. niches, HF. 1194.
Haboundaunt, pres. pt. abounding, B 3. p 2. 19; superabundant, B 4. p 6. 253; Habundant, E 59.
Habounde, v. abound, 12. 12; B 3938, E 1286; Haboundinge, pres. pt. 1. 135.