An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Het pint, The hot beverage, which young people carry with them from house to house early in the morning of the new year; used also on the night preceding a marriage, and at the time of child-bearing, S.
Morison.

Het stoup, Same with Het pint, S.
J. Nicol.

HETHELICHE, Reproachful.
V. [Heydin].
Sir Tristrem.

Isl. haediligt, Sw. haediligt, contumeliosus.

HETHING, s. Scorn.
V. [Heydin].

HEUCH, pret. v. Hewed.
Gawan and Gol.

Su. G. hugg-a, caedere.

HEUCH, HEUGH, HEWCH, HUWE, HWE, HEW, s.
1. A crag, a ragged steep, S.
Wyntown.
2. A steep hill or bank.
Evergreen.
3. A glen with steep overhanging braes or sides, Loth. Bord.
Gl. Compl.
4. The shaft of a coal-pit, S.
Skene.
5. A hollow in a quarry, Loth.

A. S. hou, mons; L. B. hogh-ia, Isl. haug-r, collis.

HEUCK, HEUGH, s. A disease of cows, inflaming the eye, Ang.