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_Hagey._ _Hag_, a scar; _ig_, implying an adjective. Resembling a scar.

_Hale._ _Hale_, whole, tight, healthy.

_Haly._ _Haly_, holy.

_Haldeman._ _Hald_, an abiding place; _man_, a man. A man that has an

abiding place.

_Hap._ _Hap_, an outer garment, mantle, plaid. Happ, a kindred term.

_Haphold._ _Hap_, a plaid; _hold_, a captain. A captain invested with his

plaid.

_Harner._ _Harn_, very coarse linen; _ere_, an agent. One who makes

coarse linen.

_Hasher._ _Hash_, a fellow that neither knows how to dress nor act with

propriety; _ere_, an agent. A fellow that does not dress becomingly.

_Haugh._ _Haugh_, a low, rich land, a valley.

_Haughey._ _Haugh_, a valley; _ig_, expressing an adjective. Valley-like.

_Haughton._ _Haugh_, a valley; _tún_, a town. A valley-town.

_Haverley._ _Haverel_, a half-witted person, half-witted.

_Hawkey._ _Hawkie_, a cow, properly one with a white face.

_Hearse._ _Hearse_, hoarse, rough, raucous.

_Heather._ _Heather_, a heath, a place overgrown with heath, a low shrub

belonging to the family of ericaceous plants.

_Hecht._ _Hecht_, promised, foretold, the thing promised, or offered.

_Heckle._ _Heckle_, a board in which is fixed a number of sharp pins used

in dressing hemp, flax, etc. Heckel, a cognate term.

_Helm._ _Helm_, rudder of a vessel.

_Helmer._ _Helm_, rudder; _ere_, an agent. One who has the charge of the

rudder; a helmsman.

_Helmbold._ _Helm_, rudder, helm; _bóld_, a house. The helmsman’s house;

pilot-house.

_Helms._ _Helm_, Helm; _sun_, son. Son of Helm.

_Herd._ _Herd_, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.

_Herder._ _Herd_, to tend flocks; _ere_, an agent. One who tends flocks.

_Herry._ _Herry_, to plunder; most properly, to plunder birds’ nests.

_Hiney._ _Hiney_, honey.

_Hinger._ _Hing_, to hang; _ere_, an agent. A hanger; a hangman.

_Hitch._ _Hitch_, a loop, a knot.

_Hoff._ _Howff_, a tippling house, a house of resort.

_Hoole._ _Hool_, outer skin or case, a nut-shell, a peascod, a pea-pod.

_Hooley._ _Hoolie_, slowly, leisurely.

_Horney._ _Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.

_Howe._ _Howe_, hollow, a hollow, or dell.

_Howkins._ _Howkins_, diggings.

_Howlett._ _Howlet_, an owlet, a small owl.

_Hoy._ _Hoy_, to urge, to press forward. Hoye, of like derivation.

_Hoyer._ _Hoy_, to urge; _ere_, an agent. One who urges; an urger.

_Hoyt._ _Hoyte_, to amble crazily.

_Hushen._ _Hushion_, a cushion.

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