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42 HAMPSHIRE QLOSSART. Hawbuck fhau'buk], 8b. a term of reproach ; a hoiking lout ; a clown. Used by Cobbett in his writing, and in a novel (I forget the title) of which the scene is laid in the New Forest — ^F. M. Hay-hoa [haihoa], ab. Nepeta glechoma. — ^R Turner, Botariologia^ 1664.— J. B. Eayn, or hayn up [haini, t?. a. to hedge in; to preserve grass grounds from cattia — ^Liue. Hayward [hai'wurdj, ab. the warden of a common. — Wise, New Forest ^ p. 166. An officer of a manor. See Howard. Haie [haiz], r. to dry; to ripen. Ex. 'The com be'ant hazed enough.'- Heal [heelj, v. a. to cover in. £x. < To heal seed with harrows ' = to to cover it in. — ^Lisle. Heart [haat]» ab. goodness, condition, as applied to land. A com- mon covenant is to leave the land ' in good heart and condition.' — Cooper. Heart, sb, Vacdnium Myrtillua, — J. B. The bilberry. Hearting, Harting [haat'in], ab. the gathering of bilberries ; as, ' to go hearting,* It shoula rather be hartiiig, — ^Wise, New Forest. See Black-heart. Heart' s-ease [haats-eez], ab. Viola Tricolor. — Halliwell ; J. B. Hearty [haati], adj. consisting of heart-wood ; not sappy. Applied to trees, and to timber. — N. H. Heath-cropper [heth-krop*ur], ab. a small, poor horse. In Driver's Oen. View of Agriculture in Co. Hants (London, 1794), p. 27, we are told that the small horses bred in Hampshire, ' having scarcely any- thing to feed on but heath, have hence derived the appellation of heath-croppera.* — W. W. S. Heath-poult fheth-poalt], ab. the black grouse ; Tetraa feiHx, Lin. — Wise, New Forest, p. 309. Heaves fheevz], ab. hillocks, such as ma^le by a mole. Mule-hillocks are called 'hloie-heaves or Wont-heaves. — Wise. Hecth [hekth], ab. height *Ak. Hedge Lilies [hedj lil'iz], ah. pi. Conooloulus aepium. — J. B. Hedge-picks [hedj*pikz], ab. pi. the fruit of the common black-thorn or sloe {Fruniis spinosa). — J. B. Hee grass [hee'graas], ab. stubble of grass — Lisle. Heel [heel], v. properly, to cover up ; to heel in the bed-clotbes means to tuck up the bed at the feet. — ^F. M. See Heal. Heft [heft] ab. See Haft, which is often pronounced as above. Heft, ab. weight, Ex. *The heft of the branches.' — Wise, New Forest, p. 188.