Hack. _s._ The place whereon bricks newly made are arranged
to dry.
To Hain. _v. a._ To exclude cattle from a field in order that
the grass may grow, so that it may be mowed.
Hal'lantide. _s._ All Saints' day.
Ham. _s._ A pasture generally rich, and also unsheltered,
applied only to level land.
Hame. _sing._, Hames. _pl._ _s._ Two moveable
pieces of wood or iron fastened upon the collar, with suitable
appendages for attaching a horse to the shafts. Called sometimes
_a pair of hames_.
Han'dy. _adv._ Near, adjoining.
Hang-gallise. _adj._ Deserving the gallows, felonious, vile;
as, _a hang-gallise fellow_.
Hange. _s._ The heart, liver, lungs, &c., of a pig, calf, or
sheep.
Hang'kicher. _s._ Handkerchief.
Hangles. _s. pl._ A _pair of hangles_ is the iron crook,
&c., composed of teeth, and hung over the fire, to be moved up and
down at pleasure for the purpose of cookery, &c.
To Happer. _v. n._ To crackle; to make repeated smart noises.
To Haps. _v. a._ To Hasp.
Haps. _s._ A hasp.
Hard. _adj._ Full grown. _Hard people_, adults.
Harm. _s._ Any contagious or epidemic disease not
distinguished by a specific name.
Har'ras. _s._ Harvest.
Hart. _s._ A haft; a handle.
Applied to such instruments as knives, awls, etc.
Hathe. _s. To be in a hathe_, is to be set thick and close
like the pustules of the small-pox or other eruptive disease; to
be matted closely together.
To Have. _v. n._ To behave.
Haw. See _ho_.
Hay-maidens. _s. pl._ Ground ivy.
Hay'ty-tay'ty, Highty-tity. _interj._ What's here! _s._
[height and tite, weight]. A board or pole, balanced in the middle
on some prop, so that two persons, one sitting at each end, may
move up and down in turn by striking the ground with the feet.
Sometimes called _Tayty_ [See-saw].
In Hay'digees. [g soft] _adv._ To be in high spirits; to be
frolicsome.
Heät _s._ Pronounced He-at, dissyllable, heat.
Hea'ram-skearam. _adj._ Wild; romantic.
To Heel, _v. a._ To hide; to cover. Chaucer, "_hele_."
Hence, no doubt, the origin of _to heal_, to cure, as applied
to wounds; _to cover over_.
Heeler, _s._ One who hides or covers. Hence the very common
expression, _The healer is as bad as the stealer_; that is,
the receiver is as bad as the thief.
Heft. _s._ Weight.
To Hell. _v. a._ To pour.
Hel'lier. _s._ A person who lays on the tiles of a roof; a
tiler. A Devonshire word.
Helm. _s._ Wheat straw prepared for thatching.
To Hen. _v. a._ To throw.
To Hent. _v. n._ To wither; to become slightly dry.
Herd _s._ A keeper of cattle.
Hereawa, Hereaway. _adv._ Hereabout.
Herence. _adv._ From this place; hence.
Hereright. _adv._ Directly; in this place.
Het. _pron._ It. _Het o'nt_, it will not.
To Het. _v. a._ To hit, to strike; _part._ _het_
and _hut_.
To Hick. _v.n._ To hop on one leg.
Hick. _s._ A hop on one leg.
_Hick-step and jump._ Hop-step and jump. A well known
exercise.
To Hike of. _v. n._ To go away; to go off. Used generally in
a bad sense.
Hine. _adj._ (Hind) Posterior; relating to the back part.
Used only in composition, as, a _hine_ quarter.
To Hire tell. _v. n._ To hear tell; to learn by report; to be
told.
Hip'pety-hoppety. _adv._ In a limping and hobbling manner.
Hirches. _s._ riches.
Hir'd. _v._ [i long] heard.
To Him. _v. n._ [_hirnd_, pret, and part.] To run.
To Hitch, _v. n._ To become entangled or hooked together; to
hitch up, to hang up or be suspended. _See the next word._
To Hitch up. _v. a._ To suspend or attach slightly or
temporarily.
The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb:
Sir Strut, for so the witling throng
Oft called him when at school,
And _hitch'd_ him _up_ in many a song
To sport and ridicule.
Hiz'en. Used for _his_ when not followed by a substantive,
as, whose house is that? _Hiz'en._ [His own].
Hi'zy Pi'zy. A corruption of _Nisi Prius_, a well known law
assize.
To Ho for, To Haw vor. _v. a._ To provide for; to take care
of; to desire; to wish for.
Hob'blers. _s. pl._ Men employed in towing vessels by a rope
on the land.
Hod. _s._ A sheath or covering; perhaps from _hood_.
Hog. _s._ A sheep one year old.
To Hoke. _v. a._ To wound with horns; to gore.
Hod'medod. _adj._ Short; squat.
Hollar. _adj._ Hollow.
To Hollar. _v. a._ To halloo.
Hollar. _s._ A halloo.
Hol'lardy. _s._ A holiday.
Hollardy-day. _s._ Holy-rood day; the third of May.
Hollabeloo'. _s._ A noise; confusion; riot.
Hol'men. _adj._ Made of holm.
Holt. _interj._ Hold; stop. _Holt-a-blow_, give over
fighting.
Ho'mescreech. _s._ A bird which builds chiefly in apple-
trees; I believe it is the _Turdus viscivorus,_ or missel.
Hon. _s._ hand.
Honey-suck, Honey-suckle. _s._ The wodbine.
Honey-suckle. _s._ Red Clover.
Hoo'say. _See_ WHOSAY.
Hoop. _s._ A bullfinch.
Hor'nen. _adj._ Made of horn.
Hornen-book. _s._ Hornbook.
Horse-stinger. _s_ The dragon-fly.
Hoss. _s._ horse.
Hoss-plâs _s. pl._ Horse-plays; rough sports.
Houzen. _s. pl._ Houses.
Howsomiver. _adv._ However; howsoever.
Huck'muck. _s._ A strainer placed before the faucet in the
mashing-tub.
Hud. _s._ A hull, or husk.
Huf. _s_ A hoof.
Huf-cap _s._ A plant, or rather weed, found in fields, and
with difficulty eradicated.
I regret that I cannot identify this plant with any known
botanical name.
Graced with _huff-cap_ terms and thundering threats,
That his poor hearers' hair quite upright sets.
_Bp. Hall, Book_ I, _Sat._ iii.
Some editor of Hall has endeavoured to explain the term huff-cap
by _blustering, swaggering._ I think it simply means
_difficult_.