ALMONDBUKT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 63 Heligo, or Helligo, adj, wild ; romping : but the word seems not much known. * They're just like heligo lada* Heling, sb, I have heard this name given to a kind of garret, or attio, where the roof leans in one direction, and nearly reaches the floor. Halliwdl gives Mingsy eyelids. (Compare io hde, Helter, sh. the pronunciation of the word Jialier, Halting, sh. and pi. In making oat-cake, the water and meal being first put into a tub, the mixture stands for the night, then more meal is gradually stirred in, and this process is the heUing, Halliwell says, to mU is to pour out. See Haverbread. A certain woman, reputed to be a witch (about 1823), indulged a neighbour, who was a shop- keeper, with her custom, and ran up a larse score. As she showed no signs of payment, the shopkeeper was obliged to stop the credit, and * sho cursed him.' In the evening the man and his wife were heUing ; the meal would not thicken ; uie husband poured it in, and ' f wife ' stirred it up. Still little progress was made. At length he said, * Tak* thi' airm aat.* She did. He stabbed a i>enknife into the tub, and added more meal. Surprising to say, it tmokened immedi- ately ! The next day the witch, with her arm lapped up, came by, and she said to one of the parties, who went to look at her, * To hev not killed me yet I * She was supposed to have had her arm in the tub to impede the heUing^ and to have been struck by the knife. Hen-hoil, t. e, hen-hole, formerly much used for ' hen roost,' or the place where fowls are kept. Een-raoe. This expression is commonly used to denote a certain amount of contempt, in such sentences as, * Au wodn't be seen at a hen-race wi' thee.' The sport in popular opinion is evidently of the lowest degree of merit, and no doubt it is. That the hen is held in contempt witness Ohauoer :
- Therefore should ye be holden gentlemen :
Such arrogance is not worth a hen,' That the bird is nothing for sport or ornament, and that it is perhaps without exception the most useful of all the feathered creation, are severally sufncient reasons for its being treated with high disdain. HenBorattins, i.e, hen-scratchings, small streaky clouds in such form as the name suggests. Heislebroth, i. a. hazel-broth, a flogging with a hazel stick. Hig, sb. a huff, or quarrel. Higgler, eh. a hawker of cloth. Him, pers, pron. frequently used for himself, ' He has cut him ' ^
- he has cut himsell' The other pronoims are used in the same way,
as ' 111 wash me,* &o. Hime (pronounced haum, or hoime — ^a transition sound), sh, the same as rime, or hoar frost. The expression * himy frost' for ' white
