'Horse-matchers or stonechats also in summer often visit the rick-yard.'—Wild Life, ch. x. p. 159.
Horses. In N. Wilts the orders given to a plough or team are as follows:—to the front horse, Coom ether, go to the left, and Wowt, to the right: to the hinder horse, Wo-oot, to the right, and Gie aay or Gie aay oot, to the left. The orders to oxen are somewhat different.
Horse-shoe. Acer Pseudo-platanus, L., Sycamore.—S.W. (Barford St. Martin.)
*Horse's-leg. A bassoon.
Horse-Snatcher. Saxicola oenanthe, the Wheatear (Birds of Wilts, p. 152).—N.W. (Huish, &c.)
Horse-stinger, Hosstenger. The Dragon-fly (A.B.S.).—N. & S.W.
Hound. The fore-carriage of a waggon.—N.W.
House, Houst. To grow stout. 'Lor, ma'am, how you've a-housted!'—N.W.
Housset, Hooset, Wooset. (1) n. A serenade of rough music, got up to express public disapproval of marriages where there is great disparity of age, flagrant immorality, &c. See article on The Wooset in Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. i. p. 88; cp. N. & Q. 4 Ser. xi. p. 225. In Berks the 'Hooset' is a draped horse's head, carried at a 'Hooset Hunt.' See Lowsley's Berks Gloss.—N.W. (2) v. To take part in a housset.—N.W.
*Howe. n. 'To be in a howe,' to be in a state of anxiety about anything (C.). See Ho for.—N.W., obsolete.