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188 Higher-quarter people. People from the uplands near a town. St, AiisfelL Hile. The beard of corn. Hilla^ or Hillah. The nightmare. BorJase. It is a Celtic Cornish word. Hippety-hop^ or Hippety-hoppety, A jumping kind of walk or gait. Hoase. Forbear. Carew. Hobbies. A kind of hawk. Carew, Hobbillj or Hobban. Dough, raisins, and fat, baked in the form of a pasty; also called Figgy-duff, Q.V. Hobble. A band for the legs of animals to prevent their breaking fence or running away. Hobbler. An unlicensed pilot. Two or three men own a boat, so as to tow a vessel in with a rope. They share the hollies^ or profits between them. Hobbelers. This so spelt by Hals, is, he says, the name given to the men and horses posted on the Cornish beacons, to give notice on any alarm of the approach of an enemy. On the beacon was a pile of wood, or barrel of pitch elevated on a pole, and fired in the night ; or in daytime a smoke was raised from some combustible matter. Hoddy-mandoddy. A simpleton, u.j.t. (Hod- niadod, N. of England), Hoggan, or Fuggan. A pork pasty. A tinner's pasty. Eogenj Celtic Cornish. Fryce.