*Honey-pot. A children's game, in which one child lifts another.—S.W.

Hop-about. Add:—S.W.

*Hopped. Cracked, as a boiler, by heat.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Huck down. To beat down in bargaining. 'I hucked un down vrom vive shillin' to vower an' zix.' Formerly used at Clyffe Pypard, but not known there now.—N.W.

Huckmuck. (3) Add:—S.W. (Deverill). Add:—(4) v. To mess about.—S.W.

*Hun-barrow (or -barrer). A tumulus.—S.W.

*Hunger-bane. To starve to death. See Bane.—Obsolete.

'At Bradfield and Dracot Cerne is such vitriolate earth ... [which] makes the land so soure, it bears sowre and austere plants ... At summer it hunger-banes the sheep: and in winter it rotts them.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 35, ed. Brit.

*Idle. Full of fun.—S.W.