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nieve, neive: hummel has many uses in Sc.—hornless, mean, shabby, to dress bere or barley
- †Hansel, 15, 32, a New Year gift. "Form corr. to O.E. handselen, giving of the hand over a bargain, O.N. hands-al, money handed over to anyone. The usages—luck penny, auspicious inauguration, &c.—not accounted for by these; cf handsel, earnest money, Ger. Handgeld."—N.E.D. Go. hunsl, gift laid on the altar, hunsla-staths, the altar. N.E.D. does not note Go. hunsl in this connection
- Hantle, 86, 138, a considerable quanity; not known before 1700; or. obs.—N.E.D.
- Hardies, 186 Fi. hard biscuits
- Hare-shed, 151. Jam. "hare-shard, hareshaw = harelip, harchatt, hareskart (Renf.), from hare, and Ic. ska, a particle, Ger. Scharte, a gap," A.S. sceart, shard
- Harjis, 23, Go. army, Ger. Heer, Eng. herr-ing
- Harmless-loonie, 139, natural or imbecile, Lat. luna, the moon. Not in N.E.D. Cf. a "dwamly craiter," Lan., in same sense
- Harn-clout, 110 , herden, hurden, contr. of harden, a coarse fabric made from hards, Du. heerde, threads of flax, O.Teut. type, hizdon, coarser parts of flax separated in hackling. Clout, var. of cloth, Ger. Kleid
- Harns, 14, 16, 17, 118, 204, 207, Go. hwairnei, brains, hwairnei-staths, Golgotha or place of a skull, Du. hersen-pan; spec. Sc. harn-pan, the skull, brain-pan; harns, brains. O.N. hjarne, Du. hersenen, Ger. ge-hirne
- Hat, hitten, 88, Orc. hote, hotten, hutt; Orc. pret. hit
- Haubith, 17, Go. head, A.S. heafod, Lat. caput
- Haugh, 19, 23, holm-land, Go. hugs, a field, O.E. halk, corner, nook, Du. hoek
- Haus-jan, 12, Go. to hear; widely Teut. Go. alone shows s, gahausjan, to hear; s and r interchange
- Have a want, to, 91
- Haver, 72, Sc. law, "witness having documents to produce in a suit; not given Jam." (J. B. F.)
- Haveril, 98, 136, spec. Sc. one who havers or talks without sense—or. unknown.—N.E.D. Hyveral, a lounger, idler.—Ed.
- Havver, haffer, 177, 183, 212, oats, "presumably Norse." Fr. haver, Ger. Hafer, var. hauver
- Haversack, 177, oat-sack. See havver
- Hause, 18, 56, neck, O.E. and O.N. hals, Go. hals, hass, Orc. Pap o' the hass, given in Jam. as Ulva for Uvula. (J. B. F.)
- He, 39, 78, 171, dee, for the, in Ir. and Gael. dialect respectively
- Hearken, 88, hear a child his lessons
- Heath, 23, 32, go. haithi, haithno, a heathen woman; or. sense, prairie land. Ger. Heide
- Heather-reenge, 119, reenge, var. of rinse or range. Either will suit sense
- Heech, hee, 12, 38, high, Go. hauh-s, hauhnan, to be heech, to hichten. Ger. hoch, Go. hauhnan, to be exalted
- Hech! 53, deep breath, exclamation; Sc. form of heigh! "Hech Sirs!" not given in Jam. (J. B. F.)
- Heckle, 70, to dress; Flax; v. and n. var. of hackle, hatchel
- Heft, 56, axe handle, O.E. haefte, Ger. Heft, Eng. haft, have, heave, that by which anything is held.—N.E.D.
"I'll nature hefts sauls that weep an' pine."
Allan Ramsay.
- Heftet, 56, 131, 147, 177, ga-haftida, Go. cleaved to: haft, O.E. haeft, Ger. Heft, a handle, root in heave or have, O.N. hefta, to bind retain (milk, urine), Ger. heften, heftet, acclimatised, as sheep to pasture. Shet. provided with
- Hei-sned, 163, hay-cutter
- Hemmil, 180, Cu. presumably misreading for skemel, which see
- Herdwick wool, 179, Cu.
- Heritors, 72, landlords, Sc. law
- Herried, harriet, herryin, 124, 151, 155, robbed (a nest), var. of, harry, harrow deriv. from Go.
