hailsen (A.S.) _to salute_. _pres. s._ hailse, 83. _pret._ hailsed, 148,
151
hayward (A.N.) 415, _a man employed to watch and guard the inclosed fields,
or hays_. An illustration of this word will be found in the passage from
Whitaker's text given in the note on l. 2473
hakke (A.S.) 420, _to follow, run after, cut along after_
half (A.S.) _half, side_
halie (A.S.) 156, _to hawl_
hals (A.S.) _the neck_
halwe (A.S.) 327, _to hallow, consecrate, make holy_
hamlen (A.S.) +_part. pas._ y-hamled, 468, _to tie or attach_ (?)
handy dandy (A.S.) 69, the expression still used in Shropshire and
Herefordshire
hange, honge (A.S.) 348, 384, _to hang_ (intransitive). _pret. s._ hanged,
19
hange, hangen (A.S.) 39, 392, _to hang_ (transitive). _pret. pl._ hengen,
25
hanylons (A.N.) 181, _the wiles of a fox_. See Sir Frederick Madden's
Glossary to Gawawyn (v. _hamlounez_), who quotes the following lines from
the Boke of St. Albans:--
And yf your houndes at a chace renne there ye hunte,
And the beest begyn to renne, as hartes ben wonte,
Or for to _hanylon_, as dooth the foxe wyth his gyle,
Or for to crosse, as the roo doth otherwhyle.
hanselle (A.S.) 96, _gift, reward, bribe_. It is used in the alliterative
poem on the Deposition of Richard II, p. 30:--
Some parled as perte
As provyd well after,
And clappid more for the coyne
That the kyng owed hem,
Thanne ffor comfforte of the comyne
That her cost paied,
And were behote _hansell_,
If they helpe wolde.
hardy (A.N.) 413, _bold, hardy, courageous_. hardier, 354, _more bold_
hardie (A.N.) 321, _to encourage, embolden_
harewe (A.S.) 412, _a harrow_
harewen, harewe (A.S.) 412, 414, _to harrow_. _pret._ harewede, _ib._
harlot (A.N.) 175, 270, 271, 303, 354, _a blackguard, person of infamous
life_. The word was used in both genders. It appears to have answered
exactly to the French _ribaud_, as Chaucer in the Romance of the Rose
translates _roy des ribaulx_, by _king of harlots_. Chaucer says of the
Sompnour (C. T. l. 649):--
He was a _gentil harlot_ and a kynde
A bettre felaw schulde men nowher fynde.
He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn,
A good felawe to ban his concubyn,
A twelve moneth, and excuse him atte fulle.
This passage gives us a remarkable trait of the character of the ribald, or
harlot, who formed a peculiar class of middle-age society. Among some old
glosses in the Reliquiæ Antiquæ (vol. i, p. 7), we find "_scurra_, a
harlotte." In the Coventry Mystery of the Woman taken in Adultery (p. 217),
it is the young man who is caught with the woman, and not the woman
herself, who is stigmatised as a _harlot_.
harpen (A.S.) _to harp_. _pret. pl._ harpeden, 394
harrow (A.N.) 430, an exclamation, or rather a cry, said to have been
peculiar to the Normans, the origin and derivation of which have been the
subject of much discussion among antiquaries. It was the cry which every
one was bound to raise and repeat, when any murder, theft, robbery, or
other violent crime, was attempted or perpetrated, in order that the
offenders might be hindered or secured. It was afterwards used in any great
tumult or disorder, and became a general exclamation of persons wanting
help. (See Ducange, in v. _Haro_.) In the Towneley Mysteries (p. 14), when
Cain finds that his offering will not burn, he cries:--
We! out! haro! help to blaw!
It wille not bren for me, I traw.
haspen (A.S.) _to clasp_. y-hasped, 26
hastilokest (A.N.) 424, _most quickly, speedily, hastily_
haten (A.S.) _to call, order_. _pres. s._ I hote. _pret. s._ highte, heet,
445. _part. pas._ y-hote, hoten, hote, _called, ordered_
haten (A.S.) _to be called or named_. _pres. s._ hatte, _is called_, I
hatie, 260, _am called_. _pret. s._ highte, _was called_
hater (A.S.) 273, _dress_
haterynge (A.S.) 299, _dressing, attire_
hatien (A.S.) 179, _to hate_
haven, have, han (A.S.) _to have_. _pres. pl._ han. _pret. s._ hadde, _pl._
hadden, hadde
haver (A.S.) _oats_, 134, an haver cake, _an oat-cake_
heed (A.S.) _the head_. _See_ heved
heele (A.S.) _health_
heep (A.S.) _a heap_
heeth (A.S.) 322, _heath_
hegge (A.S.) _pl._ hegges, _a hedge_
heigh (A.S.) _high_
+heyne (A.N.) 466, _hatred_ (?)
heyre (A.S.) _hair_. _gen._ heris, 193, _hair's_
hele, heele (A.S.) _health_
hele (A.S.) 150, _a heel_
helen, (A.S.) 87, 445. helien, 241, _to conceal, hide_
helen, heele, 355 (A.S.) _to heal_. _pret. s._ heeled, 337. an helyng, 355,
_in healing, in the course of recovering his health_
helpen, helpe (A.S.) _to help_. _pret. s._ halp, 403, 418, _pl._ holpen,
123. _part. pas._ holpen, 75, 303, 338, holpe, 115
hem (A.S.) _them_
hemselve (A.S.) _themselves_
hende (A.S.) 308, _gentle, polite_. hendenesse, 398, _gentleness,
worthiness_. hendely, hendiliche, 44, _politely, gently_
hennes (A.S.) _hence, from this time_
henten, hente (A.S.) _to take, seize_. _pret. s._ hente, hent, 435
heraud (A.N.) _a herald_
herberwe (A.S.) _a harbour_
herberwen (A.S.) _to harbour, shelter_. _pret. s._ herberwed, 352
heremite (A.N.) _a hermit_
heren, here (A.S.) _to hear_. _pret. s._ herde. _imperat._ y-heer, 356
herne (A.S.) 42, 393, _a corner_
herte (A.S.) _the heart_
heste (A.S.) _a commandment_
+hethen (A.S.) 475, _hence_
+hetheved (A.S.) 469, _head_
hethynesse (A.S.) 321, _heathenness, paganism, idolatry_
heved (A.S.) _a head_. heed, 352
hewe (A.S.) 110, _pl._ hewen, 71, 273, 281, _a husbandman, a workman_
hewe, _pl._ hewes (A.S.) 224, _hue, colour_
hiden (A.S.) _to hide_. _pret. s._ hidde, 354. _part. pas._ y-hudde, 199
+hyen (A.S.) 475, _to hie, go_. _pret. s._ hiede, 444
hyere (A.S.) _higher_
hii (A.S.) _they_
hil (A.S.) _pl._ hulles, _a hill_
hilen (A.S.) 113, _to cover over_. _pret. s._ hiled, 241, _pl._ hileden,
223
hynde (A.S.) 311, _a doe, female deer_
hyne (A.S.) _a servant, serf, rustic, labourer_
hyne, 72, 268, _a hen_ (?)
hippynge (A.S.) 351, _hopping_
hire (A.S.) _their_
hir (A.S.) _of them_. _gen. pl._ of he. hir neither, 67, _neither of them_.
hir eyther, 212, 446, _either of them_. hir noon, 237, _none of them_. hir
oon fordooth hir oother, 373, _one of them destroys the other of them_
his (A.S.) _pl._ hise, _his_
hitten (A.S.) _to hit_. _pret. s._ hite, 86, hitte, 96
+hod (A.S.) 476, _a hood_
+hok-shynes (A.S.) 476, _crooked shins_. hok seems almost superfluous: the
shin towards the _hock_ or ancle?
holden (A.S.) _to hold_. _pres. s._ he halt, 354, 357, _pl._ holde, 15,
holden, 18. _pret. s._ heeld, 156, 206, _pl._ helden, 294, 418, 438. _part.
pas._ y-holden, 358, holden, y-holde, 440, 441
hool (A.S.) _pl._ hole, 392, _whole, entire_. hooly, _wholly_. holly, 396,
_wholly_. +hollich, 452, _wholly_
homliche (A.S.) 179, _from house to house_
hoom (A.S.) _home_. the viker hadde fer hoom, 424, _the vicar had far to go
home_
hoor (A.S.) _pl._ hore, 144, _hoary_. as hoor as an hawethorn, 341
hoord (A.S.) _a hoard_
hoors (A.S.) 367, _hoarse_
hoot (A.S.) 360, _hot_
hopen (A.S.) 329, _to expect, hope_
hoper (A.S.) 120, _the hopper of a mill_
hore (A.S.) 75, _pl._ hoores, 299, hores, 303, _a whore_
+hornes (A.S.) 461, _corners_
hostele (A.N.) 355, _to give lodging, to receive into an inn_
hostiler (A.N.) 352, 355, _the keeper of a hostelry or inn_
hostrie (A.N.) 352, _a hostelry, inn_
houpen (A.S.) 127, _to hoop, shout_
houres (A.N. heures, _Lat._ horæ) _the Romish service_
housel (A.S.) 419, _the sacrament of the Eucharist_
houselen (A.S.) _to receive the Eucharist_. _part. past_, housled, 396,
424, houseled, 419
hoven (A.S.) 13, _to tarry, hover, dwell_. _pret. s._ hoved, 374
howve (A.S.) _pl._ howves, 13, 60, 435, _a cap or hood_
hucche (A.S.) 72, _a hutch, chest_
huge (A.S.) 216, _great_
hukkerye (A.S.) 90, _huckstry_
hunten (A.S.) _to hunt_. _part. pas._ y-honted, 41
huppe (A.S.) 327, _to hop_
huyre (A.S.) 111, _hire, wages_