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

Perhaps q. hirsty, from Hirst.

HIT, pron. It, S.

A. S. Dan.

Sir Gawan.

HITCH, s.
1. A motion by a jerk, S.
2. Metaph. augmentation, S.
Ross.

Isl. hik-a, cedere, hik, commotiuncula.

HITCH, s. A loop, S. O.
Burns.

HITE, HYTE. To gae hyte, to be in a rage, to act as if one were mad, S. B.
Shirrefs.

Isl. heipt-a, animo violento agere.

HITHER and YONT, topsy-turvy, S.