_Hagging, went to_, 25. I suppose went to perform her part or duty
as a witch. From hag-ridden, hag-tracks, and hag-worn, hag seems to
have been used as a synonyme for wicked or witch.
_Haggister_, 82. Kentish for the magpie.
_Hailed_, 196. Haled, hauled.
_Hair, against the_, 9. Contrary to the inclination, a phrase which
might readily be drawn as to other animals, but which, I think,
arose from dressing a horse.
_Hair, hang her up by the_, 257. Seems from the word “utterly” to
have been used metaphorically for make away with. Perhaps because
Absalom was, and is popularly supposed to have so died; or possibly
from this it was a civiller synonyme for being hung.
_Hallowe_, 316. Hollow.
_Handle_, 368. Used in one instance for to go about, or carry on,
in a good sense; in the second, as to make a passive instrument of,
as the monkey when he used the cat’s paw for the hot chestnuts.
_Heeles, by the_, 65. Arrested and confined him, because offenders
were often put for safety into the stocks.
_Hickot_, 242. Hiccough.
_Ho_, 501. Our “woa”.
_Honestie_, 81. Chastity. Frequently used of mental as well as
bodily chastity. We still speak in this sense of an “honest woman”.
_Hot_, 255. Preterite of hit. An old, and also frequent, Kentish
form of the past in many verbs.
_Houseled, be_, 265. Receive the Eucharist.
_Hugger mugger_, 433. An early example, explained by “secretlie”;
but it also means, I think, as a consequence of the secrecy, in a
hurried, tumbling, indecorous fashion.
_Hundreth_, 338. A then common variant for hundred.