HOD [600] HOD

To HOD, HODE, v. a. 1. To hide; pret. HODDLE, s. A clumsy rick of hay or corn, hod, S. B. Teviotd. What's i' your laps ye hod sae sair? Perhaps from a common origin with the E. v. to Lat's I'll its nae see, wad draff. Huddle, q. what is huddled up. M orison's Poems, p. 17. Belg. hoed-en, hued-en, Alem. huod-en. To HODGE, v. a. and n. 1. To move in a the same with Aberd. 2. To hoard. trotting way; Hatch, mounted on his beast He nimbly ; The fourt ont for knocked beir cryis ; An' hame a smart jog-trot came hodyintj. How dar this dastard hud our ? geir W. Beattie's Tales, p. 29. Legend Bp. St. Androis, Poems Sixteenth Cent., p. 324. 2. To shake in consequence of laughing [HoDLiNS, adv. Secretly; same as hiddlins, violently, ib. Mearns.] Auld daddie hodgin yout the bink, Fu' to see the blythe" sport, HODDEN-CLAD, adj. Dressed in hodden. Fill the to them Cries, stoup, gar" jink, And from Kingsbarns and hamlet clep'd of boars, And on the bannocks clort. Sally the villagers and hinds in scores, Tarras's Poems, p. 72. Tenant and and laird, hedger hodden-dad. " Anster C. ii. St. 21. 3. to Aberd. as Fair, Expl. stagger," ; denoting unsteadiness of motion. HODDEN-GEEY, adj. A term used with Sae he took gate to hodge to Tibb, to cloth worn the faut respect by peasantry, An' spy at hame some ; which has the natural colour of the S. I thought he might hae gotten a snib, wool, '

But Meg, poor Meg ! man with the shepherds stay. 0' the green that day. And tak what God will send in hodden-grey. Christmas Ba'ing, Skinner's Misc. Poet., st. 17. Ramsay's Poems, ii. 178. This is given according to Ed. 1805. In that of Hodden is also used as a *. 1 " 1809, hodye is changed to slip awd . Of the wool is manufactured almost every kind of cloth worn in the " parish ; hodden, which is the stane [4. To push roughly ; as, Hodge mostly used for herd's cloaks, and is sold at Is. 8d. the doon the brae," Clydes., Bauffs. yard ; plaiding, &c." P. Barrie, Forfar. Statist. Ace., iv. 242. from E. 5. To move or walk in a Perhaps hoiden, rustic, clowniah ; from rough, ungainly Germ, heide, heath. manner, ibid.]

s. carrion-crow. V. HODDIE, A HUDDY. [HooGE, s. 1. A rough push, ibid. A term of the HODDIN, part. expressive 2. A big, ungainly person ; generally applied motion of one who rides a horse jogging to a female, ibid.] that moves and who receives in his stiffly, about own the of movement part. pr. Moving awkwardly, body impetus every ; [HODGIN, Used also as a S. O. pushing about roughly. ., the act or habit of about Here farmers gash, in ridin graith implying moving Gaed hoddin by their cotters. so. With the prep, aboot, it implies a Burns, iii. 31. staggering, unsteady motion, as of one car- It seems radically the same with Houd, q. v. rying a very heavy burden, ibid.] HODDINS, s. pi. Small stockings, such as v. a. and n. To move are used Perths. to [HoDGiL, by slight by children, ; supposed and with or and be a dimin. from Hoe, a jerks difficulty, slowly stocking. used also as a clumsily ; part. pr. hodgUin', v. n. as the it To HODDLE, To waddle, Ang. s., and an adj. With prep, aboot, Thy rankled cheeks and lyart hair, denotes continuance of the action, or habit half-shut een and Thy hodling air, of so Are a' my passion's fewel. acting, Banffs.] Serd's Coll., ii. 38. " ' s. 1. or ibid. Sir John would not settle without his honour's [HODGIL, A push clumsy jerk, receipt.' 'Ye shall hae that for a tune o' the pipes, 2. Steenie, Play us up 'Weel hoddled, Luckie.'" Red- A stout, clumsy person ; applied generally gauntlet, i. 251. to females and children, ibid.] I rather denotes a motion in This, suspect, waddling " dancing. HODGIL, s. A dumpling," Gl. An oat- This seems the same with the E. word originally ; meal a sort of made of of which no probable etymon has been given either by hodgil, dumpling Skinner or Junius. That, which is most likely, has oatmeal, Roxb. been Sw. wed mentioned Seren. as overlooked, ja, by But should a hodgil, in sweet rolling gleam, corresponding to E. vrriggle. We may add, that Germ. Be seen to tumble in the scalding stream, watsch-eln, to waddle, is probably derived from the Sw. What prospects fair when stomachs keenly crave, wave term. To view it sporting in the stormy ; HOD [601] HOG

While with a wistful ragged children, look, s. without the HOESHINS, pi. Stockings feet, Espy treasure in. the glob'lar brook, With hunger smit, mayhap they seem to feel, Ayrs. Or ! is t cry, perhaps, Oh the hodgU weel Teut. case hitysken, theca, q. a for the leg ; V. HOG- Lentrin Kail, A. Scott's Poems, p. 40. OERS : or rather A.-S. scin-hose, ocreae, greaves, in- "!B the for is it i.e., dumpling ready eating, sufficiently verted. V. MOOOANS. C. B. hosnn, a stocking. boiled J" Now to the wood they wi' allied ekelp might, Properly to Teut. hutsel-en, quatere, conou- The lasses wi' their aprons ; tere, because of its tossed in the agitare, being pot; An' some wi' wallets, some v-i' weghte, especially as beef or mutton cut into small slices is de- An' some wi' hoahena cap'rin nominated for the huts-pot same reason. Dicitur, says Right heigh, that day. K a Damdson's 118. ilian, concutiendo ; quod carries conscissae, et in Seasons, p. suo coctae i in olla fervente jure coquo concutiantur, The word kosen is sometimes used in the singular, et invertantur. Hence E. succussentur, hodgepodge, especially for an old stocking without the foot, Gall. unless immediately from Fr. hockepot, id. HOFFE, . A residence. Dan. hof, id. H ODLACK, s. A rick of hay, Ettr. For. "Having happily arrived in Denmarke, his Majestic did a fair to receive all our wounded To v. n. a appoint hqffe, HODLE, Denoting quicker and sieke men, where they were to be entertained to- motion that than expressed by the v. to gether, till they were cured." Monro's Exped. P. L, Todle, Lanarks. p. 33. V. Hour. " To Todle, is to walk or move like a child. To trees. make of slowly HOG To pollards them ; To is to walk or move more ffodle, quickly." Ure's to cut them over about the where Hist, of place Rutherglen," p. 95. I suspect that HODile is a diminutive from Haud, to the branches begin to divide. In this case wriggle. are said to be they hoggit, Perths. Appar- from S. to hew. HODLER, s. One who moves in a waddling ently hag, Lanarks. " way, HOG, s. A young sheep, before it has lost " She sits its first fleece who next the fire, towards the east, is ; termed harvest-hog, from called the Todler : her on the left hand is companion being smeared at the end of harvest, when called the Hodler." Ibid. it ceases to be called a These terms occur in a curious account of the bak- lamb." Gl. Compl., of what are denominated sour before St. S. of a A. Bor. also ing calces, A sheep year old, ; Luke's Fair in Rutherglen. Northampt. and Leicest. Hogrel, E. id. [HODLE, . A small roadside inn, Banffs.] "The names of sheep are 1st. Ewe, wedder, tup, lambs, until they are smeared. 2d. Ewe, wedder, tup, [HODLINS. V. HOWDLINS.] hoys, until they are shorn." P. Linton, Tweed. Statist. Ace., i. 139. HOE, HOE-FISH, s. The Piked Dog6sh, "Than the laif of ther fat flokkis follouit on the fellis and and Squalus acanthias, Linn.; but more fre- baytht youis lammis, mony herueist hog." Compl. S., 103. called p. quently dog, Orkney. Ane ane ane fute-braid sawin. " calf, hog, The Piked Dog-fish, here known by the name of Bannatyne Poems, p. 158, st. 3. visits our coasts It retains this name till it be a old. hoe, frequently ; and during the short year Then it is time it continues, generally drives off every kind of called a dimmond, if a wedder; and a gimmer, if a ewe. fishes." Barry's Orkn., p. 296. Dr. Leyden mentions Norm, hogetz as rendered young It hag no other than wedder this name hoe, Shell. sheep ; remarking that may be a mistake, Sw. haj, Dan. hoe, pron. ho, Squalus acanthias, as the term ewe-hog and wedder-hog are current among Germ, the the Wideg. haye, generic name for a shark ; peasantry. the tper-haye, piked dog-fish ; Schonevelde. V. Penn. Bailey, under the designation O. L. (expl. Old Lat.,) Zool., iii. 77. by which he certainly means L. B., mentions hoggaeius, and hoggasler, as signifying "a young sheep of the [HOE-EGG, s. The eggs or spawn of the hoe, second year." 01 -I .1 "Habent apnd Sproustoun duas carucatas terre in ohetl.] dominico vbi solebant cplere cum duabus carucis cum communi dicte ville ad duodecim bores HOE-MOTHER, s. The pastura quatuor HOMER, Basking Shark, afros & ccc Rot. Red. Abb. Kelso. Orkn. hogastrox." [Isl. hornar, Squalus maximus.] "The shark HOG and SCORE. A phrase formerly used in basking (squalus maximus, Lin. Syst.) here one in has got the name of the hoe-mother, or homer, buying sheep, being allowed addition that the mother of the is, dog-fish." Barry's Orkney to every score, Teviotdale. p. 296. HOG and TATOE. Braxy mutton stewed with HOE-TUSK, *. Smooth a Shetl. Hound, fish, potatoes, onions, salt, and pepper. It is "Squalus Mustelus (Lin. syst.) Hoetude, Smooth customary with those who have store-farms Hound." Edmonstone's Zctl., ii. 304. to salt the " fa'en the meat," (i.e. sheep s. A of " [HOEG, sepulchral mound, which that have died of the sickness,") for the there are in Shetland. many Isl. hcaig, use of the servants through the winter, Su.-G. hoeg, id.] Teviotdale. VOL. II. D 4 HOG [602] HOG

s. A fence for HOG-FENCE, inclosing sheep, HOGERS, HOGGERS, s. pi. Coarse stockings after become that after Mar- they hogs, is, without feet, S. [Huggers, Clydes., Perths.] are de- tinmas, when lambs usually thus A pair of grey hoggers well clinked benew, Of nae ither lit but the hue of the nominated, or after returning from their ewe, With a pair of rough rullions to scuff thro' the dew, summer pasture. Was the fee they sought at the beginning o't. Hoss's Helenore, 137. "The ewes are milked for about eight weeks after Song, p. are "He observed one of the black man's feet to be the weaning, and sometimes longer ; and then put cloven that he on his without out with the lambs, into the hog-fence, for the winter." ; and had hogers legs Surv. E. 192. shoes." Glanville's Sadducismus, 393. Agr." Loth., p. p. In a hog-fence or pasture capable of keeping thirty I know not if this be allied to 0. E. cokera used by score of hogs, there is some years a loss of from three Langland. to four score [by the disease called the braxy.]" Agr. I shal aparel me, quod Parken, in nilgrems wise, Surv. Peeb., p. 393. And wend with you I wyl, tyl we hade truthe, And cast on my clothes clouted and hole, HOGGING, s. A place where sheep, after Mi cokera and mi cuffes, for cold on my nails. P. Ploughman, Fol. 31, b. having arrived at the state of hogs, are An old without a is still called a South of S. stocking, foot, cocker, pastured, A. Bor. V. Grose 'sGl. He also gives A. Bor. coggers "a sort of the same word, HOG-HAM, s. Hung mutton of a year old yarn spatterdashes," evidently i.e., as would seem, coverings both for legs and arms. that has died of disease, or been Skinner thus defines the term ocreae rustico- sheep, ; Magnae smothered in the snow, Tweed. rum et Piscatorum, ab A.-S. cocer, Belg. koker, theca, q. theca crurum ; or a case for the legs. It must be HOG IN HARST. V. HARVEST-HOG. observed, however, that our hoggers would be no safe- guard for the nails. [HOGREL, s. A young sheep, one not a year Fallen behind in sub- old, Teviotd.] HOGGED, part. pa. stance or trade, Renfr. HOG, s. In the diversion of curling, the "The ballast o" business has an' name to a stone which does not every shifted; given go there's no a merchant amang us that's no hogged mair It to over the distance score, S. seems be or less." Blackw. Mag., Sept. 1822, p. 307. This term has been borrowed from the denominated from its laziness, and hence properly diversion of curling. the distance-line is called the hog-score, S. B. It is thrown aside, as of no account HOGGLIN AND BOGGLIN. Unsteady, in the game. moving backwards and forewards, Ang. canst thou the blush Say, paint ffogglin may be allied to Isl. hoggun, e loco motio ; veils Impurpled deep, that the stripling's cheek, or hokt-a, claudicare. I am doubtful, however, whether the stone the When, wand'ring wide, neglects rank, both terms be not corrupted from E. : q. haggling and And stops mid-way ? His opponent is glad, boggling, hesitating about a bargain, and startling at Yet i'ears a sim'lar fate, while ev'ry mouth " petty difficulties. Cries Off the hog," and Tinto joins the cry. Graeme's Poems, Anderson's Poets, xi. 44. To HOGHLE, . n. To hobble, S.; Hughyal, To v. a. To HOG, HOGG, shog, Ang. id., Ayrs. You'll lunach in a skull. hogg your Allied perhaps to Isl. hwik-a, vacillare, titubare, Old Ball. whence inconstans hioikull, vagus, fluxus, ; q. having child in basket used for i.e., shog your a a cradle. an unequal motion. Isl. hagga, commoveo, quasso ; haggast or hoeggian, G. 104. parva commotio ; Andr., p. HOGLING, HOGLYN, s. A pig. s. in HOGALIF, A payment made Shet- "Of ilk sowme, that is, ten swine, the King sail have the best swine, and the Forestar ane land for the liberty to cast peats. hoyling." Leg. Forest., Balfour's Pract., p. 139. "If there be no moss in the scatthold to contiguous Thus he renders the low Lat. word hogaster. Both his the tenant must for the to cut farm, pay privilege it and hogling are evidently diminutives formed from in some other and this is called peat common, payment E. hog. liogalif." Edmonstone's Zetl., i. 149. ' ' Wrotok and Writhueb, or is a name to a Hogan Huaga given pasture With the halkit hoglyn N. ibid. ground." Colkelbie Sow, F. i., v. 165. But I suspect that hogalif properly signifies per- Halkit, white-faced. V. HAWRIT. mission ; from Isl. hoegg-va, caedere, and htif, tutamen, hlif-a, indulgere; q. "indulgence to cut." Hogan or . 1. The name Huaga, is evidently the same with Isl. and Su.-G. hage, HOGMANAY, HOGMENAY, locus pascuus. Hence haesthage, a place where horses appropriated by the vulgar to the last day are a for cows. This is pastured ; kohage, pasture only of the year, S. a secondary sense of the same word, which signifies a rude inclosure, whence E. hedge. In Northumb. the month of December is called " Haijmana. This designation Lambe derives from Gr. s. To come [HOGER, End, upshot ; as, ayia /WJKIJ, the holy moon. Notes to Battle of Flodden, to an ill hoger" to come to an ill end; p. 67. This seems to be also the pron. of the South of S. Isl. condition, state. Gl. Orkn. and hagr, "It is ordinary among some plebeians in the South Shetl.] of Scotland, to go about from door to door on New- HOG [603] HOG

year's Eve, crying llaijmam." Scots J'resb. Elo- Scandinavian, it would add force to the above conjec- quence, p. 133. ture. Perhaps too, the word Rottet is a corruption of the ancient Norman invocation of their hero Hollo." 2. It is transferred to the entertainment given In confirmation of this account, it may be added, to a visitor on this or to a con- that to in some of France, day ; gift according Keysler, parts in it is for and ferred on those who for particularly Aquitaine, customary boys apply it, according young men, on the last day of December, to go about to ancient S. towns custom, the and villages, singing and begging money, as The cottar an' a kind of yijl, and Au weanies, glad gay, New-year's" crying out, Guy! Wi' pocks out owre their shouther, L'An Neuf! To the Mistletoe ! The New Year is Sing at the doors for hogmanay. at hand !" Antiq. Septent., p. 305. V. Ay-guy ran- Rev. J. Nicora Poems, i. 27. neuf, Cotgr. Hence the used B. c. Sibb. thinks that the term may be connected with phrase by Rabelais, ii., 11, atter

cut the Oui or minne! Thor oel! oel! "Remember sacrifices : mistletoe, shouting and hollowing [hol- your all the ! !" laing] way, and on bringing it from the woods, The Feast of Thor The Feast the cry of old was, Au Gui Tan neuf, le Rot vient. But so wide is the field of conjecture, that I should Now, we must not not wonder some be to trace although suppose that the Druids although might disposed this term to Hercules. For spoke French, we may easily allow that cry to have we learn from Lncian (in been changed with the language, while the custom was Here.) that the Gauls called him Ogmius. V. Bochart. continued. If the word Gui should be Celtic or even Chan., p. 737. This might for once unite Gothic and HOG [604] HOI

Celtic etymologists. For among the ancestors of the HOHE. Le red Hohe, Chart. dated famous German warrior Nenius mentions Aberd., Arminius, A. 1285. Ogomun, whom Keysler views as the same person with Hercules. Antiq., p. 40. Our Irish brethren could HOICHEL, HOIGHEL, s. A person who scarcely dissent ; as this Ogmius, (whether Hercules or no attention to a Mercury, as some say, signifies nothing) is supposed to pays dress, sloven, Ayrs. have had his name from the or ancient and Ogam, Perhaps originally the same with Heckle, v. sacred characters of their country. V. SINOIN-B'BN. HOICHLIN', HOIGHLIN', part. pr. Doing any s. A diinin. from HOGREL, Hog, q.v. thing clumsily, Kinross. North of E. id. Grose. HOIF, HOFF, HOVE, HOUFF, HUFE, s. 1. HOGRY-MOGRY, adj. Slovenly, Loth. A hall. corr. E. from hugger-mugger, V. HUDGE- Bellenden, in the account given of the expedition of MUDGE. Julius C;esar into Britain, says, that according to "our yulgare croniclis, Julius came to the Callendare wod, and kest down Camelon the ciete of HOG-SCORE, s. "A kind of distance-line, principall Pichtis, efter that the was randerit to left in drawn across the rink or samyn hym. Syne curling, course," behynd hym nocht far fra Carron, ane round hous of S. Gl. Burns. square stanis, xxini. cubitis of hecht, and xn. cubitis of breid, to be ane of his to the It is used metaph. in allusion to this sport memory cumyng place. Otheris sayis he vsit this hous (as his tent) in al his But now he lags on death's hog-score. viage, and had it ay tursit with him. And for that Barns, iii. 318. caus it was callit Julius hoif." Cron., Fol. 27, b. It This is called the coal or 8. B. As the stone ' ' coll, is more fully expressed in the original. Hancque Julis which does not cross this mark is not pushed aside, Hoff, id est, Julis aulam sou curiam, quod nomen ad counted in the the name allude to the being game, may nos devenit ab incolis exinde appellatum." Booth. L. laziness of a V. HOG. hog. iii. c. 4. ' ' Hog-scores, distance-lines in the game of curling. But Bellenden has not told that Boece discredits this are made in the form of a and are They wave, placed account, and prefers that left by Veremund, who is one fifth of the whole rink from either that part witter; said to have viewed this as a temple built 'by Ves- is to if the rink be from tee to say, fifty yards long, tee, pasian in honour of Claudius Csesar, and the goddess the are distant from each hog-scores thirty yards Victory. other." Gall. Hence the Encyel. phrase, It is evident indeed, that those who explained the designation, Julius hoif, in relation to Julius Csesar, To LIE AT THE not to be able to HOG-SCORE, were entirely ignorant of the ancient history of Bri- over some in tain as he never into this of the is- get difficulty an undertaking, ; penetrated part land. They have confounded two illustrious persons, Clydes. who had the same praenomen. It had received this " name, not from Julius Csesar, but from Julius HOG-SHOUTHER, s. A in which Agricola, game by whom this sacellum appears to have been built : al- those who amuse themselves justle each though Stukeley ascribes it to Carausius. Medallic other by the shoulders," S. Gl. Burns. Hist, of Caraus., i. 132. Gordon's Itinerar., p. 26. This is the primary sense of Su. -G. hof, as given by Isl. hagg-a, to move, to shake, to jog; or hogg-e, here Ihre ; aula. He uses aula as equivalent to tern- to strike. It seems allied to the in E. called game plum, fanum. This building was in the vicinity of hitch-buttock or level coil. Camelon, which has been fabulously viewed as the of capital the Pictish kingdom ; although undoubtedly To v. a. HOG-SHOUTHER, To justle with the a Roman station. But, as this was situated on the shoulder, as in the game. confines of the Pictish kingdom, and as the name, Julius' hoif, has no affinity to the Celtic, it is highly The warly race may drudge an' drive, that it the it stretch an' strive probable was imposed by Picts. Thus Hog-shouther, jundie, ; ' Let me fair Nature's face descrive. affords no inconsiderable presumption that the language of the Picts was Gothic. Burns, iii. 252. This building has been more generally known by This use of the word, I suspect, is from the liberty the name of Arthur's Oon or Oven. But there is of a poet. every reason to believe that the other was the more ancient designation. Usher speaks of both names, s. A leathern ; the same HOGTONE, jacket in " et indeed, as used his time ; Arthur's Oven Julius with A v. cton, q. hoff appellant hodie." De Brit. Eccles. Primord., c. "A hogtone of demyostage begareit with veluot." 15, p. 586. Aberd. Reg., A. 1538, V. 16. In another part of his work, Boece, as translated by with "Attoure "Hat, bonet, gowne, hogton," &c. Ibid., v. 15, A. Bellenden, says respect to Edw. I., 1335. this tyrane had sic vane arrogance that he kest him to distroye all the antiquiteis of Scotland. And efter HOHAS, s. A term used to denote the noise that he had passit throw sindrie boundis of Scotland, he commandit the round Camelou to be made by public criers, when they call the tempill besyde cassin doun, was (as we haue schawin,) to silence. quhilk biggit, people in the honoure of Claudius Impreour and the goddes thair his sa mekill of the "The serjandis, with noyis and hohas, warnit Victory ; nocht suffering be inuy in speciall the Albania to here the kingis concioun." antiquiteis of oure eldaris to remaue in memorie. No Bellenden's T. Liv., p. 50. the les the inhabitants saiffit the samyn fra vttir euer- Fr. silence. O. ho, interjection qui sert imposer Ha- sioun ; and put the Roman signes and superscriptionnis hai, haha, ha/My, cri pour reclamer justice ou pour out of the wallis thereoff. Als thai put away the armes armis of demander du secours ; Roquefort. V. Ho. of Julius Cesar ; and ingrauit the King Arthour, HOI [COS] HOI

Mr. Pink, has seems to that commanding it to bo oallit Arthouris lioif." B. xiv., c. observed, rightly imagine it is this to which Barbour refers. Mr. Pink, has also 7, MS. pen. Auct. in of the diffusion of the fame of In the printed copy, instead of superscriptionis, it observed, proof early Arthur that the at Stir- is su/yerstitionis. through Scotland, royal palace was called Snauxlvn and that one of the Heralds Bellemlen here, as in many other places, has used ling ; " of Scotland is termed Snomlun Herald to this great liberty with the original. Boece says, that day. i. N. this order being given for the destmction of the temple, Barbour, 103, 104, as the inhabitants, from their love to their antiquities, Sir D. Lyndsay mentions both did not immediately execute it, Edward forthwith Adew fair Snatloun with th> towris hie, his and saved the walls and roof of the Thy Chapel royal, Park, and Tn'till Round. changed mind, ' 206. temple." To him also he ascribes the deletion of the \\:>,kis, 1592, p. memorials of Cesar, and the change of the name. For It be added, that, before the of Barbour, " may age it his that all the remem- that Edw. he adds ; But was pleasure the fame of Arthur was so much revived, brances of Cesar should be obliterated : and the stone, III. of England, in the year 1344, resolved to institute on which the names of Claudius and Victory were en- a new order of knights, who were to be denominated the name graved, being taken away, he ordered that knights of the Round Table. This was his original plan be sub- of Arthur, formerly king of the Enijlish, should with respect to that order which afterwards borrowed hall which stituted, and that it should be called his ; its name from the Garter. V. Godwin's Life of Chaucer, called Arthur'* name it retains even to our time, being i. 213, 214. hofin the vernacular language of the Scots." The learned Strutt has thrown considerable light on sub- " Our learned Spottiswoode has a remark on this the reason of this designation in later times. During ject that deserves to be noticed : the government of Henry the Third," he says, "the it the of Arthur's "As to K. Edward giving name just assumed a different appellation, and was called or it had the name of Arthur's Oon or was derived from Ho/ house, the ROUND TABLE GAME ; this name entered Scotland in a Kiln long before K. Edward a fraternity of knights who frequently justed with from a charter hostile manner ; as appears granted by each other, and accustomed themselves to eat together dated William Gowrlay to the Abbay of Newbottle, in one apartment, and, in order to set aside all distinc- it is called Furnum Arthuri." 3rd July, 1293, in which tion of rank, or quality, seated themselves at a circu- Cartular. Newbottle, Adv. Libr., Fol. 49. Hist. Diet. lar where was honourable." table, every place equally " MS. vo. Arthur's Oon. In a Note on the word Just, it is observed : Matthew that it is a cir- By the way I may observe, singular Paris properly distinguishes it from the tournament. of our cumstance, that this very 'ancient monument Non hastiludio, quod torneamentum dicltur, sed ludo devastations of country should survive the Edward, militari, qui mensa rotunda dicllur. Hist. Ang. sub Bruce. " and perish by the orders of one of the name of an. 1252." He adds; In the eighth year of the reign at more The account, given by Boece, has, least, of Edward the First, Roger de Mortimer, a nobleman than others that have from Kenel- credibility many proceeded of great opulence, established a round table at the of Boece. Fordun a reason for the de- pen assigns worth, for the encouragement of military pastimes ; While he ascribes the signation still less credible. where one hundred knights, with as many ladies, were as of work to Julius Caesar, he says that, Arthur, king entertained at his expense. The fame of this institution in used the Britons, when he resided Scotland, often, occasioned, we are told, a great influx of foreigners, who as it is reported, to visit this place for the sake of re- came either to initiate themselves, or make some public it thence the called Arthur' ti creation, was by vulgar proof of their prowess. About seventy years afterwards, Hove. Scotichr. Lib. ii., c. 16. Edward the Third erected a splendid table of the same Many readers will be disposed to prefer a hypothesis kind at Windsor, but upon a more extensive scale. different from either of these. It is unquestionable, It contained the area of a circle two hundred feet in that Roman in this country are for the maintenance many encampments by diameter ; and the weekly expence to the for no other reason the vulgar ascribed Danes ; of this table, when it was first established, amounted to than because their invasions were of a later date than one hundred pounds. The example of King Edward that those of the Romans. In like manner, it appears was followed by Philip of Valois king of France, who be after the romantic histories of Arthur came to also instituted a round table at his court, and by that known in this country, his name was imposed on several means drew thither many German and Italian knights which Arthur himself never saw. places who were coining to England. The contest between Douglas, in his translation of Virgil, calls the con- the two monarehs seems to have had the effect of de- stellation 85. and in this Arcturus, Arthury's Httfe, 42, stroying the establishment of the round table in both seems to allude to that building which had for after this we hear no more con- designation kingdoms ; period been so famous in S. For is the long hufe evidently cerning it. In England the round table was succeeded same with Now Boece and were con- half. Douglas by the Order of the Garter," &c. Sports and Pastimes, the of Scotland temporaries, History being published p. 109, 110. five after the death of the of Dun- only years Bishop If Hardyng were worthy of the least credit, we would keld. Even to this the Scots seem to previous era, be under the necessity of assigning a very different have to a taste for these Romances well begun acquire reason for these designations. But it would appear known in other countries. V. iii. 73. 437 ; Barbour, that, as this writer during his travels through Scotland, viii. so much Wallace, 844. 885. 966. Arthur being found the name of Arthur attached to different places, celebrated in these the of imitation works, principle he was determined to assign him a complete sovereignty would induce them to some memorials of him feign over this kingdom. He accordingly gives a very par- in their own Hence we have Arthur's of this country. got ticular account of the perambulations prince ; Art/mr'g Round and Arthur's Oon. Heat, Table, and sets up his Round Table in many parts of the Barbour mentions the Round Table at Stirling country where there is not a vestige of his name. Be newth the castell went thai sone, This, doubtless, was one of the powerful arguments by the Table Rycht by Round away ; which he meant to prove that Scotland was merely a the Park enweround thai And syne ; fief of the crown of England- And towart Lithkow held in hy. He helde his householJe, and the rounde table B. xiii. 379, MS. Some tyme at Edinburgh, some tyme at Striueline, in his of mentions a most honourable Nimmo, History Stirlingshire, Of kings renomed, and ; round artificial mount still remaining in the gardens of At Carleile somewhile, at Alelud his citee fine, full femanine : Stirling Castle, called Arthur's Sound Table; and, as Among all his knightes, and ladies HOI [606] HOI

And ill Scotlande at Perth and Dumbrgtain, Astronomers wel rehearse At konne, Dunbar, Dmnfrise, and Sa-inct Jhoris tmane ; Called Arthur's constellation. All of a worthy kniglites, mo than legion ; At Donidoure also in Murith burial region ; 2. A place. The principal place of And in many other places, both citee and towne. interment at Dundee is called the Chron., FoL 65, a. houff. Isl. not This zealous abettor of usurpation does not appear hof only signifies fanum, delubrum, but G. Andr. This sense is retained very well versed in the topography of the country he atrium; in Germ., wished to subjugate to the E. crown, as he dis- and evidently seems to be merely a secondary use of tinguishes Aldud from Dwniorytain, and Perth from the term as originally denoting a hall or temple. Sainct Jhon's toivne. Wachter renders hof, area, locus ante domum, palatium,

In ambitu cinctus : locus addition to what has been said concerning Arthur, templum, quodam impluvium, it subdialis inter aedes area ante a may be mentioned, that there are two places in the ; Icirchhof, templum, North of S. which contend for the honour of retaining church-yard. Ouaynor, the wife of Arthur, as a prisoner. These are 3. A which one a S. Barrie, a little to the N. E. of Alyth, where the place frequents, haunt, remains of the vitrified Now sleekit frae the fort are still to be seen ; and gowany field, - Dunbarrow in Angus, between Forfar and Arbroath, Frae ilka fav'rite houff and bield. ii. 36. where are the vestiges of an old fortification. The Fergusson's Poems, in " vulgar, the vicinity of both places, resting on The Globe Tavern here for these many years ancient tradition, severally give the palm to each of has been my houff." Burns, iv. 258, N 85. these places. The former, indeed, seems to have the A.-S. hofe, Germ, hof, a house, L. B. hob-a, hov-a, preferable claim, as far as there can be any preference hov-ia, villa, praedium. Wachter derives the term as in such a tale as still used in this sense from A.-S. legendary ; they pretend to shew hiw-an, formare, fabricare. her grave in the church-yard of Meigle, which is at no But this etymon is very questionable. great distance from Barrie. Her name is corr. pro- 4. It seems used to denote a nounced Queen Waners; and the accounts given of her occasionally place incontinence tally perfectly well with what is related where one wishes to be concealed. Thus in old Ballads and Romances. the haunt of thieves is called their houff. As Arthur was so much celebrated in S. when Bp. The term is also to in Douglas wrote, and even before his time, it may be applied any place that he so far with supposed complied the humour of which one finds shelter from pursuit, S. the age as to give him a place in the heavens. On the It may admit this sense in the following passage ground of Arthur's celebrity, he might judge that the She an' sae dowr British hero had as good a claim to this distinction, as grins [girns] glowrs Frae Borean houff Oi_ angry show'r Cesar had to the celestial honour of the Julitim Sidus ; Fergusson's Poems, ii. 83. especially as the name Arcturus was prior to the other. A.-S. is rendered not but It may indeed be supposed, that, in this country, hofe only domus, spelunca, a den Somner. some of the monks, who were versant in the fables of ; Geoffry of Monmouth, had rendered the Lat. name of the constellation Arthur's hoif, out of compliment to HOIGHLIN, part. pa. Doing anything the of Arthur and that the memory ; when designation clumsily; walking in a shambling manner. came to be used among the vulgar, they, finding that a V. HOICHEL. place celebrated in the history of their country was called Julius' hoif, had at first conjoined the term hoif s. A Barbour, xix. with that of Arthur. It may seem to favour this [IIOILL, hole, 669, conjecture, that Douglas uses this as if it were a name Skeat'sEd.] equally well known with that of Charlewaine, or the s. hose. Elieand ; as it occurs in different parts of his transla- HOIS, Hoiss, pi. Stockings, in connexion with other tion, designations generally "Item, sex pair of hols of blak velvett all of one received. V. Arthury's Hufe, and Virgil, 239, b. 9. sort and cuttit out on blak taffatiis." Inventories, A. But the to this idea that it is principal objection is, 1539, p. 43. not easily conceivable how the constellation should be It appears that the hose, worn by our ancestors, in viewed as a hall or without allusion to hoif, temple, an some degree served the purpose of breeches, as covering the to which Arthur's name was building latterly given. the thein or thighs, and hips. Thus, at least, the hose Whether, therefore, it be supposed that the name of the royal wardrobe are described. Arthur's or hoif was imposed by Edw. I., borrowed by "Item, ane pair of hois of cramasy velvott, all the the natives of our own from books of country chivalry ; thm laid our with small frenyeis of gold, cuttit out it seems most natural to think that it was primarily ap- upoun quhyt taffate, and hippit with claith of silver." to this Roman and afterwards plied structure, poetically Inventories, A. 1542, p. 93. transferred to the heavens. The Arthur's " designation, To pay him x sh. & the wtter part of a pair of does not occur in of our old Oon, any writings. Hence, hoyss, or than iij sh. tharfor & tua pair of schoine for it is that it in most probable was gradually substituted, his half yeiris fee." Abferd. Reg., A. 1538, V. 16. It the mouths of the for the former vulgar, designation ; is also written Hoess, ibid. either from the similarity of sound, or from the resem- blance of the building itself to an oven, as being of a HOY'S NET. Hose-net, according to the pron. circular as form, or partly from both ; especially the of Ettr. For. term hoif has been gradually going into disuetude, and is "As sure as we saw it, some o' thae imps will hae now no longer used in its original and proper sense. his simple honest head into Hoy's net wi' some o' thae I have fallen into a mistake in supposing, that the braw women." Perils of Man, iii. 386. idea of giving a place in the heavens to Arthur had originated with the Bishop of Dunkeld. Lydgate, in To WIN THE HOISS. To the prize, to ob- his Fall B. c. of this as an gain of Princes, viii., 24, speaks tain the astronomical fact well known in his time. He calls superiority. Arthur the Bonne, i.e., sun, of Bretayn. "Now when all his blunt boultis and pithles ar- Thus, of Bretayn translated was the sonne telyerie arschot, hes he nocht win the hoisn worthelie, to the rich in a mok to me fra callin Up sterry "bright dungeon ; forgeing mony mylis him, HOI [607] HOL

v. n. To sit aa if the me Procutar for the Papistis?" N. Winyet's Quest., To HOKER, body Keith, App., p. 22'.'. were drawn as those who brood in together, A phrase, which seems to have been formerly in of S. ; I over the fire cold weather, South common use ; borrowed from the custom, which, or Crusil. believe, still prevails in some parts of S., of running synon. Hurkle, a of hose or as wrestling, at a Fair, for pair stockings The auld wife cam in, and ho/cer'd herself dowu, old of our the prize. Or it may refer to the custom By the ingle that bleez'd sae finely. of country, still retained at weddings, in some places, Old Sony. the which has been worn by the a fellow throwing stocking, Germ, /tocher, gibbus ; atulen-horker, lazy on her left on the of marriage, among the fire from bride, leg, day who still loiters at home by ; hock-en, the The whom it it is company. person hits, supposed, sed,ere. Nearly allied to this is Isl. huk-a, incurvare is the first in the that will be married. is company se modo cacantis ; whence arinshukur, one who bowed down with age, who sits crouching over the To HOISE, HYSE, v. n. To brag, to vaunt, hearth. Arin signifies focus. V. HURKILL. to bluster, to rant, Aberd. v. n. the To HOLD, To keep ground ; This seems merely an oblique use of the E. v., as to &c. to signifying to lift up on high. applied seeds, plants, ; q. keep hold; S. haud. HYSE, a. 1. A vaunt, a rhodomontade, Aberd. "Most of these planted under the second turf have ibid. and made shoots but a of these 2. Bustle, uproar, held, good ; good many planted under the uppermost went back." Maxwell's s. used in Banff- HOISPEHOY, A game Sel. Trans., p. 101. shire, similar to Hide and Seek. The name HOLDING, adj. Sure, certain. is to be of Fr. extract; from Oyez, thought "This and many other things about them and to I hear, and espier, spy ; q. Listen, espy amongst them are holding evidences and sad swatches of these divided are formed you. [High-spy, Clydes.] antigospel spirits parties of, who do not blush to slander with tongue and pen To HOIST, v. n. To cough. V. HOST. those who differ from them." Walker's Peden, p. 75. "It is one of the Itoldinyest signs or marks, to try HOISTING, s. The assembling of an host ourselves and others, to know how it is with us and them, as we remember and or and or army, according keep, forget break the Sabbath." Ibid., p. 79. "This or at all conventions, clan, tryb, meettings, This is obviously from the E. v. n. to Hold, as sig- and hoisting, these many yeirs bypast, " weapon-shews, nifying, to stand, to be without exception." still joyned themselves to the Seil-Thomas." Gordon's re- Hist. Earls of Sutherl., p. 327. HOLE-AHIN, s. Expl. "a term of HOISTING CRELIS. Apparently panniers for proach ;" Galloway. Hir tittas their hips an' hooted, in or a state of " [titties] clap'd carrying baggage hosting Ah, hoU-ahin /" warfare. Davidson's Seasons, p. 178. "That James erle of Buchane restore to George A term most probably borrowed from some such s. entered the bischop of Dunkeld a warestall price xxvj viij d., game as golf, in which he loses who has not crelis of the Act. as his a hole behind. twa pare of hoistinr/ price pare vjs." hole as often antagonist ; q. Dom. Cone., A. 1489, p. 129. [HOLES, *. A game at marbles, played by To v. n. To move in an HOIT, HOYTE, running the marbles into holes, generally but manner to move with ambling crazy ; three in number, Banffs.] S. expedition, but stiffly and clumsily, The To HOLK, HOUK, HOWK, HOKE, v. a. 1. term is often used to denote the attempt S. howk. To to make hollow, ; pron. made by a corpulent person to move quick- dig, Younder vtbir sum the new heuin holkis, ly- And here also ane other end fast by Tho' now ye dow but hayte and hoble, Layis the foundament of the theatry. That day ye was a jinker noble, Dowj. Virgil, 26, 21. For heels au' win'. Geordie Girdwood, mony a lang spun day, iii. 142. Burns, Houkit for gentlest banes the humblest clay. This is the very idea conveyed by Isl. haul-a, saltit- Feryusson's Poemt, ii. 84. cursitare more detentae volucris G. " are, ; Andr., p. Howkintj, digging. North." Grose. 108. 2. Also expl. to burrow, Moray. HOIT, s. 1. A clumsy and indolent person; It is to be observed that the E. v. to diy does not with an the always conjoined epithet expressive properly convey the idea expressed by Howk. For of latter to take out the middle, leaving the contempt ; as, nasty hoit, Ang. signifies, outside whole except a small aperture. 2. A hobbling motion. One to whom this 3. to the heart. motion is attributed, is said to be at the Metaph. applied "Thairfoirthis heavenlie we armade S. B. light, whereby hoit, heires of heaven, and the children of God, is purchased " a or North." Grose. of God the worde ffoyl, natural, simpleton. be the word & Spirit conjunctlie ; by eare the striking & pearcing the outwardlie, and Spirit *. The act of V. under HOKE, digging. hawking the heart mwardlie." Brace's Eleven Serm., HOLK. 1591, Sign. R. 6, b. HOL [608] HOL

This is merely Su.-G. holk-a, cavare, from hoi, cavus. This is not a corr. of E. hollow, but the same with Ihre seems to think that this is the origin of Su.-G. A.-S. Germ. Belg. hoi, Isl. hol-r, cavus. Some have hoik, E. hulk, the of a that there is body ship ; and that the term supposed an affinity between these and was originally applied to the trunk of a tree hollowed Or. xoiX-os, cavus. out ; for such, he says, were the first vessels of the s. The hold of a Scythians. The term hoik is also used in general as to HOLL, ship. of wood that is Bathe any piece excavated. schip maistir, and the ster man also, In the holl, but baid, he gert thaim go. The act of ix. HOLK, HOKE,S. digging, Galloway. Wallace, 122, MS. Out of the holl thai tuk His faithfu' dog, hard by, amusing, stalks skynnys gud speid. The x. MS. benty brae, slow, listening to the chirp Ibid., 836, 0' wand'ring mouse, or moudy's carkin hoke. Not from the v. hold, tenere, as Johns, seems to de- Davidson's rive but Seasons, p. 62. it, from hoi, cavus. (Sw. holskepet, the hold of a ship ; Seren.) That this is the s. disease of the origin, appears HOLKIS, pi. A ; the farther from its eye being sometimes written How, q. v. same with heuk, S. B. [HOLLIN', part. pres. mean Quhat wenys thou, freynd, thy craw be worthin quhite, Haunting low, the holkis be all ouer Suppois growin thi face ? places ; keeping closely to one's work. It Doug. 35. Virgil, 66, is also used as a s. implying the act 'of so Sibb. refers to Teut. hol-ooghe, coelophthalmus. But ; and as an unskil- this like doing adj. meaning lazy,*/ / simply signifies, hollow-eyed, Sw. holoegd ; / 1 TT* p -1 O without denoting any disease. V. HEUCK. lul, Banffs.] To v. a. To to HOLL, dig, excavate, S. HOLLAND, adj. Of or belonging to the A.-S. Franc, S. hol-ian, hol-on, Germ, hol-en, holly ; hollen. id. The first place I saw my Duncan Graeme Was near yon holland bush. To v. n. 1. HOLL, To dig, to delve, Aberd. Herd's Coll., ii. 4. V. HOLTN. 2. To employ one's self in a low, sluggish, HOLLIGLASS, HOWLEGLASS, s. "A char- manner; to one's self with dirty satisfy acter in the old Romances Gl. Poems. however ;" any occupation, mean or dishonour- 16th Cent. able ; in this To sense, commonly Howk and Now Holyglass, returning hame, Holl, ibid. To play the sophist thought no schame. St. Mr. Legend JBp. Androis, Sixteenth Cent., p. 311. Todd has given Hole, v. n. as signifying to ex- " cavate but without Speaking of the Councell, that he had called ; any example. A.-S. M-ian, to them hollow. ffolliglasses, Cormorants, & men of no religion." Spotiswood s Hist., p. 424. Mr. in his notes on [3. To frequent a place in a lazy, low manner, Steevens, Shakespeare, gives some account of this fictitious character. He mentions Banffs.] an old black letter book, without any date, entitled, A a man that In the voice it to be meryejest of was called HOWLEOLAS, &c. [4. pass, implies closely '' " How Howleylas was buried." The author tells a confined to one's He's hollt now of work; as, silly story the cord breaking at the feet, so that, fra mornin' to nicht." when he was into the the coffin Clydes., Banffs.] " put grave, stood bolt upright. Then desired the people that stode about s. A mean of the that to let the [HoLL." low, place meetine, grave tyme, coffyn to stand bolt up. For in his he was a Banffs.] ryght. lyfe tyme very marvelous &c. and shall be as man, buryed marvailously ; and in this maner left [HOLL-ABOUT, v. n. Same as HOLL.] they owleglas." "That this book," says Mr. Steevens, "was once 1. popular, be inferred from Ben Jonson's HOLL, HOWE, adj. Hollow, deep ; how, S. may frequent allusions to it in his Poetaster : Skars sayd he thus, quhen of the holl law graif ' ' Ane eddir slidand What do ) great can furth thraw. " you laugh, Owleglas in TJie Fortunate a : Doug. Virgil, 130, 14. Again, Isles, masque ' What do think of Ane terribill sewch, birnand in flammis you Owleglas, reid, Instead of him?'" and how as hell Abhominabill, to see " " I saw This history," he adds, was originally written Police in Dutch. The hero is of Honour, iii. 4. there called Uyle-spegel, [i.e., Sow cavernis or furnys of Ethna round the Speculum or Looking-glass of the Owl.] Under this Eummysit and lowit. title he is likewise introduced by Ben Jonson in his Doug. Virgil, 91, 10. Akhymist, and the masque and pastoral already 2. Concave. quoted." But undoubtedly, the reason why Adamson, Arch- As the quhen birnand sonnys betnes bricht bishop of St. Andrews, was dubbed Howlieglass, The cloud with, his wattery peirsand licht, appears from what follows : on the Schynand fer, forgane skyes howe "Menage speaks of Uylespeigle as a man famous for Schapis the of the rane bow. figure quent tromperies inyenieuses ; adds that his life was trans- 38. Doug. Virgil, 565, lated into French, and gives the title of it." Reed's Isl. hol-r, concavus. Shakespeare, vi. 91, 92. The connexion, in which the term is introduced 3. a hollow sound, S. by Giving Semple, shows that he especially attached to it the It idea spak right howe. of deception. Besides what has been already Burns, iii. 43. quoted, he says HOL [609] HOI,

But how this was discharge gotten, "Between the edge of the river Hyde, and the Wliuu llnlieylass is deid and rotten, rising or banks on each side of that there are His smaikrie sail not be forvttt, ground, river, or are here of How Doctor Patrick payit his debt. generally valleys, holms, (as they called) different breadths." P. Ane new conceal this knaif hes tane, kc. Dalserf, Lanarks. Statist. Ace., ii. 371. Legend, ut sup., p. 315. on ilka howm. But Howlieglaas, lang or the morne, Keep halyday New falset forced out for to defend him. Ramsay's Poems, i. 102. Ibid., p. 316. Su.-G. holme, which primarily has the same MOM with the E. is used also to Thair Holiegloa began his gaidis, word, denote an area separ- Quyetlie his counsall gave him, ated by hedges from the surrounding soil, from its in- That Uolicgloa wald sone decave him. sulated form. Hence, the Isl. name for a duel or single Ibid., p. 328, 329. combat was hoolmyanija, Su.-G. holmgang, because the Semple indeed alternates the term with Lworie lur- parties fought on a piece of ground inclosed on all sjdes with that a coward can (i.e., lurkiny) Lowrie, and deceat/ul Lowrie, p. 211, stakes, might have no opportunity 318, 319, 324. of flying : and the phrase, Qanga a holm vid annan, duello cum aliquo congredi. But it is questionable . A word in sometimes whether the S. term be HOLLION, Ang. not radically different ; as Isl. hwam-r, a little a low between conjoined with hip. The precise sense signifies valley, place two hills; convallicula, seu semi vallis Verel. G. Andr. seems to be lost. ; , while hoolm-r is rendered insula parva. An' o'er, baith hip an' hottion, She fell that night. HOLMINO, HOMING, . Same as HOLME, Morison's Poems, p. 24. HOWM. Su.-G. hel och haallen (hollen), entirely, quite. "Another third is hominrjOT haugh ground, stretched the side of a river." HOLLOWS AND BOUNDS. Casements alone Maxwell's Sel. Trans., p. 9. Qu. nolming. used in making any kind of moulding, whether large or small, in wood, S. HOLSIE-JOLSIE, . A confused mass of sort of as swine's "Hollows and Hounds, per pair, to 1$ ineh, 3 4." any food, meat, &c. Arthur's List of Tools, Edin. Teviotd.

the term is HOLM, s. 1. A small uninhabited island, Perhaps primary Teut. hulse, siliqua, as denoting a mess of husks. an islet, Orkn., Shetl. " The several isles are divided into such as are in- To HOLT, v. n. To halt, to stop, Ettr. so habited, and are more commonly called Isles ; and For. such as are not inhabited, which they call Holms, only useful for Su.-G. holl-a, cursum sistere : Dan. hold-er, to pasturage." Brand's Orkn., p. 28. stay, to stand still ; holdt, stand still. "On the other side it is protected by a holm or interj. stop, islet." Scot. N. Mag., Nov., 1805, p. 180, . as in HOLT, A wood ; E. Firrie-holt, a The as used in denotes a river term, E., island. wood overrun with Su.-G. holme, iusula. Ihre observes that there is this brushwood, brambles, difference between oe and holme, that oe is used to &c., Ayrs. denote a and greater island, holme one that is less, as A.-S. holt, holle, lucus, sylva ; Su.-G. hult, nemus ; those in rivers. But, he adds, this distinction is not Isl. holt, aspretum. always observed, as appears from Bornholm. The or a, ay, ey, which forms the termination of *. 1. that which is at the HOLT, High ground, names of the larger islands of Orkney, and of some the same time hilly and barren. It seems of those in Shetland, corresponds to Su.-G. oe. to be used as 2. rock by Doug, synon. with hirst. A surrounded by the sea, which has On thir wild holtis hars also been detached from the rocks or adjoining In faynt pastoure dois thare beistis go. from the mainland, ibid. Doug. Virgil, 373, 17. " V. HIRST. Easily a man in a cradle from the Ness to goeth Makyne went hame anewche the Holm or rock, reason of its descent. ThisAo/m blyth by Attoure the holtis hair. is much frequented by fowls," &c. Brand's Descr Bannatyne Poems, 102, st. 16. Orkn., p. 119. Ritson the from Turber- Speaking of the term Clet, used in Caithn. for a rock quotes following passage broken off from ville's Songs and Sonnets, 1567, in which it is the land, he expl. it as synon. with evidently used in the same sense. Holm as used in Orkn. and Shejil. V. CLET. Yee that frequent the hilles; HOLME, HOWM, s. The level low ground And highest holies of all. Gl. E. M. Rom. on the banks of a river or stream, S. hoam, S.B. Bndd. derives it from Fr. haull, haut, Lat. aU-us, high. But it is certainly the same with Isl. 1ml It, which Thare in wode has welth at a wylde wylle ; signifies rough and barren place, salebra, Verel. Thare hyrdys hydys holme and hille. terra et Glaretum, aspera sterilis, gleba inutilis ; G. Wyntmen, Cron., i. 13, 16. Andr. V. HAIR, 2. Holme and hill, or holme and seem to have " hycht, 2. or is been in use Holt Haut now diminished to a phrases common ; as we now say hill and very dale. small hay cock, or a small quantity of In Scotland he send hys Tresorere, manure before it is spread." P. Hutton To sek bath holme and hi/c/it, and Corrie, Dumfr. Statist. xiii. 568. Thai men to get, gyve that thai mycht. Ace., Wyntomi, viii 16, 85. V. HUT, a. 2. VOL. II. E 4 HOL [610] HON

called from its resem- the name to what Raia/uKonica (Linn.), supposed HOLY DOUPIES, given blance to the instrument used by fullers in smoothing is called Dundee commonly Shortbread, ; cloth. Lanarks. V. DABBIES. Holy-Dabbies, HOMYLL, adj. Having no horns, S.; hum- mil, hummilt, synon. doddit, cowit; impro- HOLYN, HOLENE, s. The holly; a tree, perly written humble and humbled. S. Ilex aquifolium, Linn. "Quhen vncouth ky fechtis amang thaym self, gif The park thai tuk, Wallace a place has seyn ane of thaym happenis to be slane, and vncertane quhat Off Rret holyns, that grew bathe heych and greyn. kow maid the slauchter, the kow that is sail Wallace, xi. 378, MS. homyll beir the wyte, and the awnar thairof sal recompens the I leive the maister of Sanct Anthane, " dammage of the kow that is slane to his nychtboure. William Gray, sine gratia, Bellend. Cron. x. c. 12. Incornuta, Qui nunquam fabricat mendacia, B., Bpeth. This proceeds on the that the But quhen the holene tree grows grene. certainly supposition, animal slain exhibits no marks of been Dunbar, Bannatyne Poems, p. 37, st. 8. having gored. "Of their black cattle some are without horns, This Prov. is still retained. called by the Scots humble cows, as we call a bee an "He never lies, but when the hollen is green ;" i.e., humble bee that wants a sting." Journey West. "he lies at all times." Kelly, p. 174. Islands, Johnson's Works, viii. 305. A.-S. holegn, holen, id. Skinner deduces it from " I that's the best in the of gat the humble-cow, byre, A.-S. hoi, all, andeej/e, point, q. all-pointed, because frae black Frank Inglis and Serjeant Bothwell, for ten its prickles. pund Scots, and they drank out the price at ae doun- Tales of my Landlord, ii. 70. HOME-BRINGING, s. The act of bring- sitting."" 'That,' said John with a broad grin, 'was Grizel ing home. chasing the humbled cow out of the close.'" Guy "The earl of Marischal got for himself a fifteen Mannering, i. 141. of cattle." years tack frae the king, of the customs of Aberdeen A. Bor. "humbled, hornless; spoken and Banff, being for a debt owing by umquhile king Grose. It is the term that is to James to his goodsire George earl Marischal, for Jiome perhaps same applied grain. bringing queen Ann out of Denmark." Spalding, i. V. HCMMIL, v. said ' ' The hum- 331. Dr. Johnson, vo. Humblebee, has ; blebee is known to have no sting. The Scotch call a cow to HOME-DEALING, s. Close application without horns an humble r.ow ; so that the word seems on sub- to signify inermis, wanting the natural weapons. Dr. a man's conscience or feelings any " Beattie. S. ject, But the supposed analogy is quite imaginary. The " Sir, prepare yourself, in what follows, to be plain- S. term appears to be originally the same with Su.-G. for both the interest of a term used to denote mutilation of kind. ly dealt with ; precious truth, haml-a, any A. -S. and your great confidence makes plain and home-deal- Ihre says that it properly signifies to hamstring. is founded on ing with you in the case indispensibly necessary." hamel-an, id. But perhaps this assertion al- M 'Ward's Contendings, p. 196. the idea of its being a deriv. from ham, suffrage ; though he afterwards refers to ham, mancus, which the Germans in like HOME-GOING, s. V. HAMEGAIN. seems the true origin. From ham manner form hammeln, castrare. Isl. hamla, in legibus est membri laesione vel mutilatione HOMELTY-JOMELTY, adj. Clumsy and passim alicujus alium minus facultatem habeat velit confused in manner. impedire, quo quod efficiendi ; Verel. Ind. Hamla ad handum edafotum, Then cam in the maister truncare Ibid. mani- Alraaser, manibus pedibusve ; Hamlad-ur, Ana homelty-jomelty juffler, Olai Lex. Run. bus pedibusque truncatus ; Lyk a stirk stackarand in the ry. Dunbar, Maitland Poeins, p. 94. HUMLIE, s. A cow which has no horns, S. from Whummil, v. and E. jumble. Juffler, Perhaps q. "A great proportion of the permanent stock are for one who danced with a shuffling motion. Surv. shuffle,; humlies, that is, they have no horns." Agr. This word, in its formation, nearly resembles Sw. Forfars., p. 439. hummel och tummel, topsy-turvy. HONE, HOYN, s. Delay. For owtyn hone and HOMMEL CORN. Grain that has no beard. but hone, are used adv. as signifying, without "That Wil the Wache of Dawic sail content & to Maister Gawan Wache thir gudis vnder-writtin, delay. pay With thai wordis, for owtyn hone, that is to say, vii bollis of meile in a pipe. Item, xii He tite the bow out off his hand ; salt xxiiiis. vii bollis of sault, price of the Item, For the tratouris wer ner cummand. the of chalder of hommyl corne. Item, sawing yi Barbmir, \. 602, MS. chalder of aitis & a half. Item, the sawing of xiii in Skeat's " [Hoyn, Ed.] a &c. Act. Audit. A. 35. bollis of bere & half, , 1474, p. Drife thir chiftanis of this land but hone. Doug. Virgil, 222, 9. s. The a fish, HOMMELIN, Rough Ray, Rudd. thinks that hone is put for ho, metri causa. Frith of Forth. But this conjecture is not well founded. For Holland where the is not concerned. "Raia rubus. Rough ray: Hommelin." Neill's uses the former, rhyme but to in all landis. List of Fishes, p. 28. The Paip commandit, hone, wryt i. MS. Prob. this term is derived from Isl. hamla, impe- Houlate, 11, dire as from its multitude It is also written Hune, q. v. ; hoemlun, impedimentum ; the This seems formed from the v. Hove, How, v. By of spines, spread not only over the back, but q. mistake Ritson renders this shame, as allied upper side of the fins and the head, it must a strange the to Fr. honte or in the celebrated Honi soit, hinder anything that touches it, and entangle honi, phrase nets? It is well known, that for this reason it is &c., referring to the following passage: HON [611] HOO

Tills honowr sal he An honest-like bit is such a of kind of noght niyne, portion any Bot series it aw wele at be thine food as the ; implies good will of the giver. It also often I it the withouten gif her, hone, includes the idea of plenty. And that I am undone. grantes Every thing in the house was honest-like, i.e., There Ywaine and Yawin, E. M. Rom., i. 154. was no appearance either of poverty, or of parsimony. V. Hoc. V. the*. * 4. to of HONEST, adj. 1. Honourable, becoming. Applied any piece dress, furniture, Oure lord the Kingis eldest sone, &c., that has a very respectable appear- and and Suete, wertuous, yong fair, ance, S. Honest, habil, and avenand, Yauld his saule till his Creatoure. 5. To the respectable appearance such a thing Wyntown, ix. 23, 15. makes, 8. V. CLAUCHAN. 6. To a Hence as Mr. Macpherson observes, S. "honest- plump, lusty child, Aberd. like, decent, respectable ; and thief-like, ugly, un- * HONESTY, . 1. honour. seemly." Respectability, He sawfyd ill kyngis honeste, 2. as Respectable and commodious ; opposed Swa to sclandyre a kynryk fre. to what is and inconvenient. Wyntown, viii. 3, 141. paltry " Beggarly pride is devil's honesty, and blusheth to "That thai causa all ostillaris baith to burgh and to be in Christ's common." Rutherford's Lett., P. I. lande, ilk man within self and boundis of his office, to ep. 50. haue honest chalmeris and bedding for resaving of all Amongis the Bischopis of the towne, passingeris and strangearis, passand and travelland He played the beggar up and downe, throw the realme, welo and honestly acculterit with Witnout respect of honestie, and sufficient with hek and gude stabillis, mangere, Or office of ambassadrie. corne, and stra for the horss, flesche, fish, breid, hay " Legend Bp. St. Androis, Poems Sixteenth Cent., p. 337. and aile, with vther furnessing, for travellaris. Acts 2. Ja, V., 1535, Ed. 1814, p. 348. Kindness, liberality, S. It is commonly said one who has received a favour or 3. This term is used in a singular sense by by from another : I'll hide nae man's the vulgar, in relation to a woman, whom gift a man has humbled, especially if under honesty. "Why should I smother husband's honesty, or promise of marriage. If he actually marries my " sin against his love, or be a niggard in giving out to he is said to make an honest woman her, others what I get for nothing? Rutherford^ Lett., of S. he does all in his to P. 86. her," ; i.e., power I., ep. cover her ignominy, and to restore her to 3. Decency, what becomes one's station, S. '" her place in society. Honesty is no pride, S. Prov. spoken to them that too careless in their dress is * go ; intimating, that it no adv. in a HONESTLIE, Decently, respectable sign of pride to go decently." Kelly, p. 48. manner. Lat. honeslus signifies both kind, and decent ; Fr. courteous honneste, honne'te, gentle, ; seemly, handsome. In the statutes of the Gild, it is provided, that if a brother be "fallinin suld him of povertie they help [HONEY-WARE, . A species of edible the gudis of the gild, or mak ane gathering to him fra sea-weed. Alarm esculenta; Bad- : synon., the communitie of the burgh And gif he happinis to die, they sould caus burie him honestlie." Balfour's der-locks.~\ Practicks, p. 81. s. foolish talkative "Dame Elizabeth Gordon died upon the second HONNERIL, A per- day of December, and was buried honestly out of her son, Upp. 'Clydes. own native soil." ii. 58, 59, i.e., Spalding, although hoon-en to id. in a she had an Belg. signifies reproach (Fr. honn-ir, ), foreign country, honourable inter- and a ment. hooner, reproacher. [HONTYNE, s. Hunting. Barbour, iv. HONEST-LIKE, adj. 1. Applied to the ap- "513, Skeat's Ed.] pearance of a man, as denoting that he s. 1. A or call to a at a looks well, both in face and person, that he [HOO, cry person Banffs. is neither hard visaged nor puny. distance, Clydes., " Weel, an it be sae order'd I hae to naething say; 2. A cry to frighten birds, ibid.] he's a sonsy, furthy, hotiest-like lad." Saxon and Gael, ii. 34. [To Hoo, v. a. and n. 1. To cry or call to a at a ibid. 2. As respecting dress. One is said to look person distance, when dressed very honest-Uke, in a decent 2. To frighten away birds, ibid. V. HOY, and proper manner. and How.] "The Bowrs [boors], Fishers, and other country peo- 1. or to a ple also do go honest-lite in their apparel, as becometh [HooiN', part. pr. Crying calling their station." Brand's Zetl., p. 67. person at a distance, ibid. 3. To has the what appearance of liberality, 2. Frightening away birds. Used also as a as to what indicates opposed parsimony. ., ibid.] HOO [612] HOO

HOO, s. Delay, stop. To HOOD, HUDE the corn. To cover a shock by Scho tuk him wp with owtyn wordis mo, putting on the hood-sheaves, S. Atour the wattir led him with gret woo, Till hyr awn houss with outyn ony hoo. HOODY, s. The hooded crow, S. V. HOVE, How, v. Wallace, u. 264, MS. -Upon an ash above the lin Berner's Hoo is used in the sense of truce, Froys- A hoody has her nest. as sart, ii. 153. "There is no hoo between them longe V. HUDDT CRAW. Davidson's Seasons, p. 4. as speares, swords, axes, or daggers will endure, but " s. Roxb. lay on eche upon other. V. Scott's Lay of the Last HOOFERIE, HUFERIE, Folly, 304. Minstrel, Note, p. Dan. hoveren, "a rejoicing, a jubilation, a merry- " making. Su. -G. hofwera, usurpatur de quavis pompa, s. V. How. HOO, Night cap. from hof, aula. Germ. Sax. hover-en, praesultare.

s. The ebb-shore at the head of To v. a. To to [HOOBS, HOOIE, barter, exchange ; a over which a rivulet flows. Dan. where no boot is Fife. bay properly given ; hob, recessus maris, Gl. Orkn. and Shetl.j Hence, " a shout of HOOCH, interj. Expl. joy," HOOIE, s. An exchange without boot, ibid.

Gall. I have observed no term that has any resemblance ; " ' unless it should be traced to Teut. to Hooch! it's a' like a wadding!' shout the peasan- houw-en, marry ; as there is a mutual made in try, when dancing, making their heels crack on other undoubtedly exchange this instance. at same time." Gall. Encycl. s. 1. E. HOODED CROW. The Pewit Gull, Orkn. *HOOK, A sickle, "The Pewit Gull Lin. (Larus ridibundus, Syst.) 2. Metaphorically used for a reaper, S. here called the hooded crow, is frequently seen in What think ye they were gi'en for hooks ? and sometimes in Summer.r." Barry's Orkney, Spring, As sure's I stand amang the stocks, 303.. p. A shillin's gaen. It received this name from its black has evidently The Har'st Rig, st. 127. head. Hence it is also called Black E. cap, * "Shearers." s. A hired mourner. HOODIE, Synon., THROWING THE HOOKS. This is done im- r Saulie, Edin . mediately after crying the kirn. (V. KIRN.) seems to have from their This designation originated all The bandster collects the reaping-hooks ; wearing hoods; of which the small huntsman's caps, " them the throws them still worn, may be a vestige. Next followed fifty- and, taking by points, one men in and hoods, the first of poor gowns bearing up upwards : and whatever be the direction a banner with the duke's ai'ms, &c. The charged the of the hook, it is supposed to Jeep mourners followed next in gowns and hoods, two point and two, to the number of twelve." Nisbet's Heral- indicate the quarter in which the individual, P. iv. 149. V. GUMPHION. dry, 147, to whom it belongs, is to be employed as a If of HOODING, s. A piece of rough leather by reaper in the following harvest. any in the which the hand-staff and the souple of a them fall with their points sticking are be married before flail are conjoined, Loth., Roxb. ground, the persons to next harvest if one of them break in ; any The Carrion S. HOODIT CRAW. Crow, the owner is to die before another V. HUDDY CRAW. falling, harvest, Teviotd., Loth. HOODLING HOW. Perhaps, a cap of HOOK-PENNY, s. A penny given per week to some kind. reapers in addition to their wages, Loth. An auld hand, and a hoodling how : " weil which each shearer is in use to ask I hope, my bairns, ye're a' now. Hook-penny, " over their The Willie Winkle's Test., Herd's Coll., ii. 144. and receive weekly and above pay. Har'st Note to st. 121. Hoodling may be a dimin. from E. hood. But as Rig, How a or coif, which would make the signifies cap [HOOKATIE, KROOKATIE. On the phrase tautological, hoodlinrj may denote what belongs to the head, from A.-S. heofud, Teut. hoofd, id. haunches, Shetl.] " s. bended HOOD-SHEAFS, s. The sheaves with HOOKERS, pi. Expl. knees," which a stook or shock of corn is covered Shetl. This is the same with the term used in S. in the field, to carry off the rain; pron. evidently Hunkers, q. v. hude-sliaifs, S. S. This is obviously a metaph. sense of hood, Teut. HOOL, s. Husk; more properly ffule, as a for the head. hoed, primarily signifying covering Dr. Johns, (vo. Hull, E. id.) observes that this in Johns, thinks that A.-S. a hood, be hod, denoting may Scottish is hule. This gives the sound better than hool. natu- from hepod [r. hefod] head. But Kilian more its rally deduces Teut. hoed from hoed-en, hued-en, tegere, To COUP FRAE THE HOOL. To start from protegere. in allusion to some sub- place ; leguminous To this compound term we may perhaps trace an- stance from the S. B. other, which may be viewed as elliptical. bursting pod ; HOO [613] HOO

The is not used, as far as I can learn, in con- But the skair I got into the pool : part, but has lieen formed the writer I thought my heart had cuupeitfrae its hool. versation, probably by Ross's Uelenore, p. 43. from the s. from A.-S. hamod indutus, tectns, covered ; The phrase assumes different forms signifies haam, ham, horn, hama, homa, tegmen, a covering, of- Sad was the chase that they had geen to me, ten denoting a long linen garment, such as that worn heart near cmip'd its hool, ere I got free. My 1 is allied to Su. -G. First 56. by priests. But this term, suspect, Ibid., Edit., p. Teut. hwlfor hufwa, capitis tegmen muliebre ; huyve, In Edit. Third, p. 60, it is thus altered S. rqticulum, capillare, vitta, huyn-rn, caput operire ; heart's near out free. a My of hool, by getting hoo, E. coif. Or, as hoomet may seem compound word, q. hauft-med, from Germ, hauft, head, "Beneficial;" kind, perhaps HOOL, adj. properly, and meid-en, to cover. Hovmetet seems immediately friendly. connected with./Zanere rags. I have met with this word only in a coarse proverb. s. A made of the "You are any [ay] hool to the house, you drite in [HOONSKA, pudding and mool t to the burds i.e., crumble it blood of an ox mixed with meal, Shetl.] your loof, " ;" for the cfeickens : Spoken to pick-thanks, who pre- s. A Orkn. tend great kindness to such a family." Kelly, p. 383. HOOREN, disgust, This is a term of be- or A.-S. undoubtedly great antiquity ; Perhaps an abbreviation of abhorring ; from Su. -G. hull or anc. ing obviously the same with hum, horewen, sordes, filth, uncleanness, dung. siais holi, benevolus ; Moes. -G. hulths. Hulths mis fra- " Be or tome the s. A road between or waurheamma ; merciful, propitious, [HOOSAMIL, past sinner Luke xviii. 13. Isl. hott-r, arnicas, fidelis, and ;" " houses, Shetl. Isl. hits, houses, amilli, dexter et officiosus ; G. Andr. Dan. huld, affec- tionate, gracious, favourable, sincere ;" Wolff. between.] It occurs, however, in O. E. in the sense of firm, [HOOSAPAAJL, s. The head, Shetl. Isl. faithful : Hue suore othes holde ham, the head.] That huere none ne sholde Excited, Horn never bytreye, [HOOSE-HICHT, adj. angry, Thah he on dethe leye. enraged, Bauffs.] Oeste of King Horn, Ritson's Mel. Rom., it 143. Teut. benovolus huld- s. A an Barbour, huld, hold, favens, amicus, ; [HOOST, host, army, en, fldem praestare. xiii. 734, Skeat's Ed.] To v. a. To conceal, S. B. HOOL, HOOT, HOUT, HOWTS, interj. Expressive I wadna but maun hool frae care, ye e', of dissatisfaction, of some degree of irrita- Whate'er I tell you now atwish us twa. S. Shin-eft' Poems, p. 140. tion, and sometimes of disbelief, ; equi- This is radically the same with Heild, Heal, q. v. valent to E. fy. But it more nearly resembles Su.-G. hoel-ja, velare, "Some, however, demanded of the postilion how he id. operire ; Moes-G. hul-jan, Alem. hul-en. Germ. had not recognised Bertram when he saw him some hull-en, tegere. Isl. hel-a has in the imperf. hulde, time before at ? to which he gave the hulen, tectus. Hence hull, the husk or cover- Kippletringau part. pa. very natural answer, Hoot, what was I thinking ing of any seed. " about Ellangowan then? Guy Mannering, iii. 310. "Howls, the word which sometimes prefaces one HOOLIE, adj. Slow; also, slowly, softly. howls nonsense ; thing, sometimes another ; such as V. HULY. howte &c. Gall. ay,"" Encycl. A. Bor. hoitt, a as nay." Grose, Su.-G. HOOLOCH, HURLOCH, s. "A hurl of negative, hut, apage. Hut-a ut en, est cum indignatione et con- an avalanche Gall. stones, ;" temptu mstar canis ejicere, nee non probris onerare ; " vo. Hut. C. B. off with it ! ! Boys go to the heughx whiles to tumble down Ihre, hwt, off, away ! Hence to take or ; to hoolochs, receiving much pleasure in seeing them roll away hwt-ian, off, push away " hoot. and clanter [make a clattering noise] down the steeps. Gall. Encycl. HOOT-TOOT, interj. Of the same meaning, C. B. hoewal, whirling ; hoewal-u, to whirl in eddies. but stronger, and expressing greater dissa- HOOM, s. A herd, a flock, Mearns. tisfaction, contempt, or disbelief, S. To HOOM, v. a. V. To HOAM. E. tut. is used in a similar sense. of HOOMET, HOWMET, HUMET, . 1 . A large HOOT-YE, interj. Expressive surprise Ber- flannel nightcap, generally worn by old when one hears any strange news, women, Aberd. wicks. From hoot, and perhaps the pron. pi. yt, q. ! This is different from the Toy. " " "Fy do ye assert this ? Or, q. take yourself off." 2. A child's under cap, Moray. " To HOOVE, v. n. To remain, to stay, Hommet, a little or cowl." Gl. Sibb. cap Teviotd. This must be the same with Hence, as would seem, has been formed the term, Hove, v., v. HOOMETET, part. pa. Having the head q. covered with a Hoomet. HOOZLE, HOUSEL, s. 1. That part of an

The fairies troop'd in order bright, axe, shovel, pitch-fork, &c., into which the An' witches hoometet in fright, handle is fitted, Lanarks., Roxb. In an In ftanen rags, and wousey. this is called D. Anderson's Poems, p. 82. adze the heel, Lanarks. HOO [614] HOR

The term, as thus used, has been supposed to be from HOPE-HEAD, s. The head of a or of a E. house, the shank, &c., being housed as it were hope, m the hollow and wide space. Perhaps rather from Teut. huyz- deep pretty glen among hills, en, to to house or a lodge, ; houd, handle, and stel, a which meet and sweep round the upper place. V. HOSE. South of S. 2. end, A slip of paper, tied round a number of s. Yellow in order to their to- HOP-CLOVER, clover, Berwicks. writings, being kept " Sometimes two pounds of white clover, and a gether, is also called a hoozle, Roxb. pound or two of yellow clover, or trefoil, called pro- To vincially hop clover, are added to the mixture, HOOZLE, v. a. To perplex, to puzzle, pro- to portionally diminishing the quantity of red clover non-plus, Ayrs. seed." Agr. Surv. Berwicks., 305. Teut. hutsel-en, labefactare. conquassare ; Perhaps This is the Trifolium agrarinm, Linn. "Hop, tre- merely an borrowed from that of oblique sense, the foil, Anglis ;" Lightfoot, p. 409. ., as that of a hatchet into which the signifying part The term hop may be allied to Su.-G. hop, portio handle is fixed ; q. to fix one, a that L. phrase denoting agri separata ; B. hob-a, properly pasture-ground. one is at a loss what to say or do. HOPE, s. 1. A small bay. To v. n. To HOOZLE, drub severely; q. to Of fors, as wynd thame movyd, strike with the hinder of a in the part hatchet, Come Fyrth thame behowyd, Lanark*. And in Saynt Margretis Hope be-lyve Of propyre nede than til arryve. HOOZLIN, s. A severe drubbing, ibid. Wyntown, vi. 20, 109. It seems to be used in a similar sense, Orkn. s. A name to the Sacra- " HOOZLE, given To the north is St. Margaret's Hope, a very safe ment of the Roxb. harbour for ships.- Here are several harbours, Supper, ; evidently good as North and retained from the times of V. Kirk-Ao/>e, -hope, Ore-hope, others." popery. Wallace's Orkney, p. 8, 10. Housel, E. 2. A haven, Loth. To v. " HOOZLE, HUZZLE, n. To breathe It was a little hamlet which straggled along the with side of a creek formed the of a small a sort of wheezing noise, when walk- by discharge brook into the sea. It was called ing fast, Roxb. Wolfe-hope, i.e., Wolf's haven." Bride of Lammermoor, i. 291. The same with v. Johns, mentions as used Whaisle, Whosle, q. ; only with a hope by Aiusworth ; render- mollification of " the aspirate. ing it, any sloping plain between the ridges of moun- tains." But he gives no hint as to the etymon. If we To v. n. To dance. HOP, HAP, can have any confidence in Bullet, hope was used in is used in this sense in the of the Hop this sense, according to the account language ancient Gauls : Petite whichrhich Walsingham gives of what Wallace said to his vailed entre cles montagnes. trooproops, when he had drawn them up in order of battle. As we can have little dependenee on Bullet's testi- "Dicens eis patria lingua. I half brocht to you the mony, which, as far as I can observe, has no collateral confirmation look for King, hop yif you can." ; perhaps we may our Hope in Lord Hailes with renders Isl. hop, recessus, vel derivatio or " great probability, King, fluminis, hwapp, vallicula Haldorson. It is rimj, adding ; The ring means the dance a la ronde." lacuna, ; greatly in favour of this Doug., he observes, uses hap as signifying to dance. etymon, that, as this term occurs very fre- It in the South of in local is, however, written hop, according to Rudd. edit. quently S., names, it is, as far as I have combined with Syne yonnder mare was in ane feild observed, generally words of schappin Gothic The dansand preistis, clepit Salii, origin. and wounder Hoppand singand merely. To HOPPLE, v. a. To tie the of Virgil, 267, 21. fore-legs horses or with leather or V. Annals Scot, i., 259. sheep straps straw Teut. hopp-en, salire, saltare, Su.-G. hopp-a, saltitera. so as to them from ropes, prevent straying ; as a ewe from her lamb, &c.; Roxb. HOP, HOPE, . A sloping hollow between weakly "Hoppled, having the feet or tied so two hills, or the hollow that forms two legs together as to walk only by short steps ; North." Grose. ridges on one hill. The highest part of HOPPLE, s. A o' two this is called the hope-head, Loth. Tweedd. pair hopples, straps, each of which is fastened round the Dumfr. Glack, slack, synon. pastern of the of a and attached Fresche Flora hir floury mantill spreid, fore-leg horse, by In euery waill, bath hop, hycht, hill, and meide. a short chain or rope, to prevent its running Wallace, ix. 25, MS. away when at pasture, Roxb. He has guided them o'er moss and muir, the O'er hill and hope, and mony a down. Most probably from circumstance of the horse made to when it Minstrelsy Border, i. 188. being hop moves forward ; Teut. Hope occurs in the names of many places in the hoppel-en, hippel-en, huppel-en, saltitare, tripudiare, subsultare a dimin. South of S. ; from hopp-en, id. HOPRICK, s. A wooden driven into HOPE-FIT, s. The foot or lower part of a hope, pin ibid. the heels of shoes, Roxb. From A. -S. ho, calx, the heel, and priced, price, acu- Mr. Macpherson observes, that Isl. hop signifies a leus, stimulus, a pointed wooden pin. large pond, or small sea. Hoop, stagnum majus, mare minus G. Andr. s. ; [HORENG, The seal, "phoca," Shetl.] HOR [615] Holt

HORIE GOOSE. The brent Anas for this purpose. Urorum cornibus Barbari Sep- goose, binas unius cornua im- Linn. sometimes tentrionales, urnasque capitis bernicla, Orkney; pron., plent. Hist. Lib., ii. c. 37. This is admitted by and also written, horra. Northern writers. V. Ol. Worm. Aur. Cornu, p. 37. ' ' Saxo Grammaticus asserts the same thing concerning The birds of are pretty numerous. Among passage the ancient inhabitants of Britain. The Saxons used these the swans, the Korie geese, or as they are called drinking vessels of the same kind. V. Du Cange, ubi in England the brant geese, which take their departure sup. from in the spring for the north, to obey the Orkney " That the custom of out of the horns of of &c. P. Kirk drinking dictates nature, , are the principal. wall, animals the Greeks, appears Statist. Ace., vii. 547. prevailed among early from a of evidence. V. Potter's ii. 390, "On the sand and shores of Deerness are seen variety Antiq., Rosin. Antiq., p. 378. V. BICKER and SKUL. of plovers, curlews, sea-larks, sea-pies, and myriads This is the Isl. term callus. a bird with a hoarse called the in- merely horn, large grey cry, by habitants Horra Goose." P. St. Andrews, Orkn. HORN, s. An excrescence on the foot, a corn, Statist. Ace., xx. 263. There is some similarity between the name of this S.B. bird and that of the velvet in Norw. duck, Haforre, Sw. likthorn, id. q. a body-horn, from lik, the body, Penn. Zool., 583. The shieldrake in Norw. is ur- and horn a corn-cutter. p. " ; likthorner, gaas. But we are informed that they are called in s. to the to denounce as Shetland, Horra geese, from being found in that sound;" HORN, To put horn, vo. N 15. Encycl. Britann., AIMS, a rebel; to outlaw a person for not appear-

* in the court to which he is summoned ; HORN, s. Green Horn, a novice, one who ing a forensic much used in our courts, is not qualified by experience for any piece phrase, of business he in one who be S. engages ; may "Incontinent Makbeth entrit & slew Makduffis easily gulled, S. wyfe & hir barnis, with all other personis that he fand 1 have not observed that this phrase ia used in E. in it, syne confiscat Makduffis gudclis, & put him to the, It seems borrowed from the honourable profession of horn." Bellend. Cron., B. xii., c. 6. Reipublicae de- Tinkers or in the fabrication of Homers, who, spoons, claravit hostem, Boeth. &c. cannot make sufficient work of a horn that is not , The phrase originates from the manner in which a properly seasoned. person is denounced an outlaw. A king's messen- ger, legally empowered for this purpose, after other s. The horn of a boat, the con- *[HORN, Formalities, must give three blasts with a horn, by tinuation of the stern, Shetl.] which the person is understood to be proclaimed rebel to the king, for contempt of his authority, and his s. vessel for *HORN, A holding liquor; figu- moveables to be escheated to the King's use. V. Ers- kine's B. Tit. Sect. 56. ratively used for its contents. Tak aff Instit., ii., 5, 55, It appears that horns were used for trumpets, before horn, S., i.e., take drink. your your those of metal were known. Propertius informs us, Then left about the bumper whirl, that the ancient Romans were summoned to their as- And toom the horn. semblies, by the sounding of the cornet or horn. Ramsay's Poems, ii. 349. Buccina cogebat priscos ad verba Quirites. Yet. ere we leave this valley dear, In the same manner was the alarm sounded. Clas- Those hills o'erspread wi' heather, Send round the sae clear sicum Buccinatores cornu dicunt. usquebaugh ; appellatur, quod per We'll tak a horn thegither. Veget. Lib., ii. c. 22. Gathering Rant, Jacobite Relics, ii. 99. Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum Isl. litui sonant. horn, poculum ; hornungr, potus, L. B. cornu, Perstringis aures, jam Hor. Carm. ii. 0. 1. vas quo bibitur ; also, vinum cornu contentum. Lib., Among the ancient Norwegians a King or Earl served The Israelites blew horns or cornets at their new himself heir to his a remarkable at other solemnities x. father, by ceremony, moons, and ; Num. 10, Psa. illustrative of the phrase mentioned above. xcviii. 6. Horns were used as trumpets by the ancient of the Sturleson, speaking ninth century, says; "At Northern nations ; as Wormius shews, Aur. Cornu, this time it was the received custom, that when the p. 27. funeral feast of a King or Earl was celebrated, [Paren- The form used, in denouncing rebels, was most pro- talia, I .at.] he who prepared the feast, and who was to bably introduced into S. from the ancient mode of succeed to the inheritance, seated himself on the low- raising the hue and cry. In this manner, at least, was est steps of an exalted throne, until the cup called the hue anciently raised. Braga-beger was brought in. Then, rising to receive "Gif ane man findes ane theif with the fang, do-and and taken raise this, having a vow, he emptied the cup. him skaith ; incontinent he sould the blast of ane This being done, he was to ascend the throne which horne vpou him; and gif he hes not ane home, he sould his father had thus filled, and become possessor of the raise the shout with his mouth ; and cry lowdly that whole inheritance." "In this very manner," he adds, his neighbours may hearo." Reg. Maj., B. iv., c. 23, 2. "were things transacted on this occasion. For the Du Cange supposes, but, it would seem without cup being brought in, Ingiald the king, rising up, sufficient authority, that the term hue properly de- grasped in his hand, einu dyrshorni miklu, a large or noted the sound of a horn. Hue vero videtur esse meikle horn of a wild ox, which was reached to him ; clamor cum cornu ; vo. Huesium. and having made a solemn vow, that he would either That this mode of raising the hue was not confined increase his paternal dominions at least one half, by to S., appears from the phrase used by Knyghton, A. new acquisitions, or die, if he failed in the attempt, he. 1326. Omnes qui poterant cornu sufflare, vel vocem tlrack of sithan af hornino, then emptied the horn." Hutesii emittere, &c. Du Cange also gives the phrase, Heimskr. c. 40. levare Ynglinga S., Cum cornu clamorem ; and quotes a passage We learn from Pliny, that the ancient Northern from a charter dated A. 1262, in which the person in nations preferred the horns of the Urus or wild ox, whose favour it is made, is freed ab Cornu, crito, &c., HOR [616] HOR

that is adding, crito equivalent to clamor, from F. cri. the registers of hornings and inhibitions, which were V. vo. Corny., 2. in her husband's possession the time of his decease." Our mode of denunciation is mentioned so early as Act Seder'., 4 March, 1672. the of William the reigii Lion. If the debtor disobey the charge, the Messenger pub- he "And gif vnjustlie withdrawis him from the lishes the letters at the market cross of the head borough attachment : the officers sail raise the kinij's horn vpon of the shire where the debtor dwells, or of a regality or for that him, deforcement, vntill the king's castell." stewartry, if he resides in a separate jurisdiction. Stat. Will., c. 4, 2. Debet levare cornu super ilium, There the messenger must, before witnesses, first make Lat. three several Oyenses with an audible voice. Next, he That the Maire or be in Icing's Serjand may always must read the letters, also with an audible voice ; and readiness for this of his he is part work, obliged, under afterwards blow his horn, as mentioned, vo. Horn, 3, of pain being fined severely, still to carry his horn with V. Ersk. Instit., ubi sup. him when he into the goes country ; and the Baroune Serjand, when he enters into the Barony. V. Acts HORNE, s. A name given, by our ancestors, Ja. I., 1426, c. 99. to one of the constellations; but to which of them is as is AT THE HORN. 1. Put out of the protection uncertain, there no corres- of law, proclaimed an outlaw, S. This ponding term in Virg. Of sterne the phrase was at one time gravely used in a euery twynkling notis he, That in the stil heuin moue cours we sense but to modern and se, religious ; thought Arthurys hufe, and Hyades betaiknyng rane, refinement it has somewhat of a ludicrous Syne Watling strete, the Horne and the Charle wane. Doug. Virgil, 85, 43. V. also 239, b. 3. appearance. all at To BEAR AWA' THE to excel in re- For yee were Gods [r. Oodis] home ; HORN, any This Babe to that now is you borne, spect, S. Sail make and for you saif, you die, ' ' " He that blows bear the S. Pro v. And you restore to libertie. " best, away korn, He that does shall Poems of the Sixteenth Century, p. 72. best, have the reward and com- mendation." Kelly, 149. the of Banff p. [2. On verge bankruptcy, s.] It is more properly expressed in Mr. David Fer- guson's Proverbs : "He that blaws best, bears awa' v. a. as outlaw. To HORNE, To denounce an the horn." P. 16. " " Disehargeing that ye nor nane of yow charge, When all printers have an equal liberty to print, horne, poynd, nor trouble the said Johnne Schaw, his and know that he who blows best will carry away airis nor tennentis of his tuentie audit pund threttene the horn, there must arise a certain emulation among shilling [land]," &c. Acts. Ja. VI., 1592, Ed. 1814, them to excel one another," &c. Lett. Mem. for the p. 551. Bible Soc., p. 153. This phrase undoubtedly alludes to some ancient HORN s. 1. one ARE, HORNER, An outlaw, custom in S., of a contention in blowing, in order to under sentence of outlawry. gain a horn as the prize. "Thair names salbe deleit out of the of catologe HORN-DAFT, adj. Outrageous, quite mad; hornaris, and ane act maid thairupoun quhairthrow in allusion to an animal that is they sail not be forder troublit for that horning in perhaps raised to and the tyme cuming." Acts. Ja. VI., 1590, Ed. 1814, p. 525. fury, pushes with horn, "He proponit the meane and overtour vnder- S. B. writtin, Lettres to be formit, the haill " chargeing Tibby Stott's no that far there, thinks I to &c. to wrang sehirreffis, , present the autentick of thair copy mysel, horn daft as she is." Wint. Tales, i. 314. haill schirreffis buikis, to the effect the haill horneris Horn mad is synon. in E. registrat thairm and remaining vurelaxt may be ex- May I with reputation, tractit and chargit," &c. Ibid., A. 1598, p. 1/4. After my twelve long labours to reclaim her, Which would have made Don Hercules horn 2. who is sent to S. mad, One Coventry, B. ; q. And hid him in his hide, suffer this Cicely ? treated as an or as one to outlaw, put the Beamn. & Fletch., p. 2948. horn. Dr. Johnson says, "Perhaps made as a cuckold;" to which Mr. Todd subjoins, "or mad for horns." s. Used as to But the idea is unnatural and the ad- HORNE, equivalent Horning. certainly quite ; dition renders it rather ludicrous. "Thelordis prolongis the execucioun of the horne in the meyntime, & falyeing he bring uocht the said HORN-DRY, adj. 1. Thoroughly dry; synon. child, ordauis the lettres gevin of befor in the said " be to execucioun iueontinent. Act. Dom, with bane -dry, and with the full mode of mater, put " Cone., A. 1491, p. 205. expressing the metaphor, as dry as a horn to &c. Loth. HORNING, s. Or, Letter of Horning, a letter ;" applied clothes, ; issued from his and di- 2. for drink a word Majesty's Signet, Thirsty, eager ; frequently rected to a Messenger, who is required to used by reapers when exhausted by labour charge a debtor to pay the debt for which in harvest, Tweedd. he is prosecuted, or perform the obligation Teut. Jwren-drooghe, which Kilian expl., Siccus in- star cornu, dry as a horn. He refers to the similar within a limited time, under the pain of Lat. idiom, on the authority of Catullus : Siecior cor- rebellion, S. cornu pora ; and, Coruu magis aridum. "The Lords of Council and Session ordaine the HORN-GOLACH, s. An ear- relict and representatives of the said John Ramsay, to HoRN-GOLLOGH, give up and deliver to the said George Robertson, all wig, Angus. V. GOLACH. II oil [617] HOR

Whether this be a of the HORN-HARD. 1. As an adj.; hard as horn, S. play vestige very ancient custom of the and skins of brute His face was like a bacon ham, assuming appearance animals, especially in the sports of Yule ; or be That in reek had hung : might lang meant to the And hiii-ii-liHfil was his tawny hand symbolize exertions made by the devil, often called in That held his hazel rung. Hornie, making sinful men his prey, and Watty and Mtulije, Hird"t Coll., ii. 198. employing fellow-men as his coadjutors in this work ; I cannot to determine. "He abandoned his band, with an air of serene pretend patronage, to the hearty shako of Mr. Girder's horn- HORNIE, s. Fair Hornie, equivalent to hard palm." Hriilo of Lammermoor, ii. 280. fair Teut. horen-herd, oorneolus, durus instar cornn. play ; probably borrowed from the game of or some similar 2. Hornie, game, Aberd. As an adv. ; profoundly. Sleeping horn- hard, in profound sleep, S. B. HORNIE-HOLES, s. pi. A game in which Are ye sleeping ? rise ami win awa", four play, a principal and an assistant 'Tis and time, just the time for you to draw; on each side. A. stands with his assistant For now the lads are sleeping horn hard, The door upon the dog's securely barr'd. at one hole, and throws what is called a cat JKoss's Helenore, p. 53. of and " (a piece stick, frequently a sheep's Borrowed from the S. phrase, as hard's a horn ;" horn) with the design of it and applied to sleep so sound that the sleeper can hear making alight in as little as a horn would do. "As deaf's a horn," is a another hole at some distance, at which used in phrase commonly S. B. and his assistant stand ready to drive it aside. The bat or driver is a rod HORN-HEAD, ado. With full force, im- resembling without Ettr. a walking-stick, Teviotd. petuously, stop, For. ; Born- The head synon. following unintelligible rhyme is repeated by a player on the one side, while they on the other are This seems to refer to an animal forward to rushing gathering in the cat* ; and is attested by old people as strike with its horns. of great antiquity : and HORN-IDLE, adj. Having nothing to do, Jock, Speak, Sandy, Wi' a their lousie train, completely unemployed, Loth., Lanarks. Round about by Erriiiborra, We'll never meet "I fell into a bit gruff sure enough, sittin' horn idle again. Gae head 'im, gae hang 'im, wi'my haffit." Saxon and i. 189. handaneathmy Gael., iu Gae lay him the sea ; A' the birds o' the air HORNIE, s. A ludicrous name HORNOK, Will bear 'im conipame. for the from the of devil, vulgar idea With a niy-nny, widdy- (or worry-) bag, his And an e'endown trail, trail; having horns, S. ; sometimes Auld Quoth he. Hornie, Burns. The game is also called K'Mie-cat. The term cat is Your lass has likewise been fairies by stole : the name given to a piece of wood used in playing the I'm sure I wish them a' in hell E. game to Tip-cat, Strutt's Sports, p. 86. Belg. Wi' Hornie their auld father there to dwell. haatbal is the name of the Tennis-ball, as the game Sails of Clyde, 121. p. itself is called Kaats-spel. This name is more ancient than might have been supposed. HORNIE-REBELS, s. A play of children, all their deeds and "Truely, among devises, the rebels at the horn. casting doune of the churches was the most foolish and Ayrs.; q. furious worke, the most shreud and execrable tume HORNIES, s. pi. A for that ever Hurnok himself culd have done or vulgar designation devised." horned Father Alexander Baillie's True Information of the un- cattle, Roxb. hallowed offspring, progress and impoison'd fruits of Bcdown the green the hornies rout, our the Scottish-t'alvinian Gospell and Gospellers, Wirts- Beuorth tents they're rairin', 1628. Here's fouth of a' con-kind of burg, V. M'Crie's Life of Knox, i. 433. nout, Shall we To suit demands the fair in. suppose that this originated from the per- St. Bosvxlfs A. Scott's suasion of the ancient heathen, that Pan, and the Fair, Poems, p. 65. Satyrs, were horned? It seems favourable to this con- HORNIE-WORM, s. A grub, or thick, short jecture, that the cloven foot with the re- corresponds a presentation given of the same characters. worm, with very tough skin, inclosing a sort of chrysalis, which in June or Julv HORNIE, *. A in game among children, becomes the called which one of the company runs after the long-legged fly by children the Spin-Mary, Fife. rest, having his hands clasped, and his Teut. horen-ivorm, vermis comua erodit. thumbs pushed out before him in resem- seps, qui blance of a. A' Horns to the a of horns. The first person whom lie HORNS, pi. Lift, game touches with his thumbs becomes his pro- young people. circle is formed round perty, joins hands with him, and aids in A a table, and all placing their on the one A' horns to t/t( to catch the rest forefingers table, cries, lift, attempting ; and so on till cats' horns upmost. If on this any one lift his finger, they arc all made captives. Those who he owes a wad, as cats have no horns. In the same are at manner, the who does not raise his when liberty, still cry out, Hornie, Hornie! person finger, a homed animal is is Loth. named, subjected to a forfeit. These wads are recovered by the performance of some VOL. II. HOK [618] HOR

task, as kissing, at the close of the game, the person HORSE-COCK, s. The name given to a named by the one who has his eyes tied up. small kind of snipe, Loth. HORN-TAMMIE, s. A butt, a laughing-stock, However singular, this is undoubtedly a corr. of the Aberd. Sw. name of the larger snipe, Horsgu'ik, Linn. Faun. Suec., N. 173. V. HOESEGOWK. The term has probably been first employed to denote the person who played the part of the Blind-man's HORSE-COUPER, s. A horse-dealer, one in an this Buff; as, early age, personage appeared who buys and sells horses, S. dressed in the skin, and wearing the horns, of a brute Some turn'd some animal. The play was thence denominated, in Sw., horse-coopers, pedlers. Colvil's Mock blind-bock. V. BELLY-BLIND. The chief actor in this Poem, p. 37. Instead of Ihre mistake uses the term sport being shoved and buffeted by the rest, the name this, by horse- Gloss, vo. V. and 1. might be latterly transferred to any one who was made coser, Kyta. COUPEE, COUP, the butt of others. s. Meat without drink HORSE^FEAST, ; KORNEL, s. The name given, on the Frith also denominated a horse-meal, S. of Forth, to the Sand-lance, when of a large The phrase, I am informed, occurs in O. E. size. HORSE-GANG, s. The fourth part of that "A. Tobianus. Hornel. Sand-lance; Sand-eel; quantity of laud, which is ploughed by four The largest sand-lances are by the fishermen called to as tenants, S. B. hornels." Neill's List of Fishes, p. 3. horses, belonging many ' ' As the farms are very small, it is common for four HORNIE, adj. Amorous, liquorish, Ayrs. ; people to keep a plough between them, each furnishing perhaps from the idea that such a person is a horse, and this is called a horse-gang." Pennant's Tour in 105. apt to reduce another to the state of a S., 1769, p. As this is in fact the description of a plough gang or cornutus. plough-gate, I apprehend that a horse-gang rather de- notes the fourth of this, or the possession of one of the s. or of HORNIS, pi. [Metal points tips four persons referred to. strings or laces.] HORSEGOUK, *. 1. The name given, in "Item, ane gowne of quhite satyne, with ane pas- the Shetland to the Green Sand- ment of gold and silvir, lynit with claith of gold, fur- Islands, nist with horuis of A. gold." Inventories, 1539, p. 33. piper, Tringa ochropus, Linn. I observe, that in those pieces of dress in which horns is to are mentioned, no notice is taken of buttons, and vice 2. This name given the snipe, Orkn. versa, "The snipe, or snite, Wil. Orn. Scolopax Gallinago, M 'Donald, however, in his Gaelic " Vocabulary, gives Linn. Syst. Ore. Myre-snipe, Horsegok." Low's horn as with ; A or synon. tag Aigilen Tag Horn," Faun. Oread., p. 81. 19. p. Sw. horsgoek, id. Faun. Suec., sp. 173. Cimbrisqui- busd. Penn. 358. GOOSE. V. HOEIE. hossegioeg. Zool., p. HORRA Dan. horse gioeg, Isl. hrossa-gaukr, Norw. roesjouke, Brunnich. 183. Pennant's Zool., 468, q. the horse- s. clock. tol- HORRELAGE, A "The cuckoo. buith horrelage" the clock of the tolbooth. WAN, s. Ox-eye, moon-flower; Aberd. Reg., V. 16. V. ORLEGE. [HORSE-GO Chrysanthemum, Leucanthemum, Linn. HORRING, s. Abhorrence. Clydes.] ' I am now passand to fascheous __- Ye-- myay purpois.i s. One who lets saddle- me dissemble sa far that I haif HORSE-HIRER, gar horring thairat ; and ye caus me do almaist the office of a traitores." Lett. horses, S. Buchan. Det. G. a. b. Q. Mary, 8, "If the decent behaviour of common horse-hirers, to Lat. horr-eo. use a Scottish expression, who attended him in his * journey, extorted this confession from him, we cannot HORSE, s. A faucet, a wooden instrument well suppose that he found the better sort of people for off drawing Liquors, S. B. deficient in agreeable qualifications." MacNicol's Ke- * marks, p. 92. HORSE, s. 1. A hod or tray used by ma- Dr. Johns, has thus defined Hirer. "2. In Scotland sons for it denotes one who small horses to let." It carrying lime, Dumfr. ; in other keeps would seem counties called a Mare. that the learned Lexicographer was deter- mined to view every thing on the North side of the Tweed as on a small scale. In his 2. A wooden stool, or tressle, used by masons definition, however, he might be insensibly influenced by a recollection of for Tress: raising scaffolding on, S.; synon. the size of the horses that had been hired at Inverness, which were rather weak for his ; so that, 3. That sort of tress which is used for ponderosity sup- in crossing the Rattakiu, he required one of the guides porting a frame for drying wood, Loth. to lead the horse he rode, while the other walked at * Ilia "side, and Joseph followed behind." V. Boswell's To v. a. To the HORSE, punish by striking amusing description of this scene, Journal, p. 133, 134. buttocks on a stone, S. V. BEJAN, v. HORSE-KNOT, s. "Common Black Knap- . The S. B. S. HORSE-BUCKIE, great welk, weed, Ang. ; Centaurea nigra, The V. BUCKLE. Horse-knot, Scotis Austr." Lightfoot,p.498. Hoi: [019] HOS

. One who is ex- of Forfars. tho HORSE-MALISON, 2. The seed-leaves grain, ; q. tremely cruel to horses, Clydes. V. MALI- socket which contains them. SON. "The disease of smut appears to be propagated from the seed in so far as it is found in the ears before they *. The oyster, HORSE-MUSCLE, pearl have burst from the hose or seed-leaves." Agr. Surv. found iii rivers, S. [Mya margaritifera, Forfars., p. 299. This term was formerly in general ue, at least in Lin.] the north of S. "In still are found a large bi valvular " deep pools "Vagina, the hose of corn. Wedderb. Vocab., p. 21. shell-fish, known here by the name of the horse-muscle. are not used as but in some of them are They food, s. "Medlar," the found P. Lanarks. Statist. HOSE-DOUP, E.xpl. small pearls." Hamilton, Germanica Roxb. Ace., ii. 179. Mespilus ; " The rivers in this parish produce also a number of s. The S. horse or pearl mussels. There is now in the custody of HOSE-FISH, HOSIE, Cuttle-fish, the Hon. Mrs. Drummond of Perth, a necklace, pearl Sepia Loligo, Linn. 0-fish, Loth.; Hosie, which has been in the of the ladies of that possession Banffs. noble family for several generations, the pearls of which were found here in the and for size and Nostratibus, (a theca, in se rccipit) Tay, shape," Loligo quam are not to be equalled by any of the kind in Britain. Hose-fish dicitur. Sibb. Scot., p. 26. of hose P. Cargill, Perths. Statist. Ace., xiii. 532. 0-fish seems merely q. Hoe-fiM ; the singular being often used, S. HORSE-NAIL. To make a horse-nail of a HOSE-GRASS, HOSE-GERSE, . Meadow tiling, to do it in a clumsy and very imper- soft fect way, Fife. grass, Ayrs. "Hose-grass or Yorkshire fog (Helens lanatus), s. The same with Horse- HORSE-SETTER, is next to rye-grass the most valuable grass." Agr. hirer, S. Surv. Ayrs., p. 287. " A stripling guided him to the house of Theo- s. 1. A small net, affixed to philus Lugton, the chief vintner, horse-setter, and HOSE-NET, stabler in the town." R. Gilhaize, i. 150. a pole, resembling a stocking, used in rivu- HORSE-SHOE, s. It was a common lets, S. belief that a horse- among country people 2. The term is also used metaph., as denoting shoe nailed on the door of a house, stable, a state of entanglement from which one &c., was a witchcraft, S. guard against cannot easily escape, S.

"Your wife's a witch, man ; should nail a horse- " you Sa bee your awin words, yee haue drawne your shoe on your chamber-door." Redgauntlet, ii. 244. " selfes in a hose-net, & crucified your messe." Bruce's An horse-shoe is put thrice through beneath the Serm. on the Sacr. M. 4, b. V. HERRYWATER. belly, and over the back of a cow that is considered "That afterwards they might bring Montrose into a elf-shot." Gall. Encycl., vo. Freets. hose-net, they resolved to divide their army in two : HORSE-STANG, s. The Dragon-fly, Upp. one to go north, and the other under Baillie, to stay iu Angus." Guthry's Mem., p. 184. ; from the idea of its " Clydes. apparently Doubtless thir covenanters from their hearts la- horses. stinging mented, and sore repented the beginning of this co- never to have suffered the smart HORSE - WELL - GRASS, *. Common venant, looking thereof, as they did, till they were all drawn in an how- an S. Veronica becca- brooklime, herb, net, frae the whilk they could not flee, nor now durst Linn. against the same, nor any disobedience, bunga, speak " give under the pain of plundering. Spalding, ii. 206. s. Sat. [HORSON,' Whoreson, Lyudsay, a. without feet. Time Ests., 1. 1356.] HOSHENS, pi Stockings V. HOESHINS. To HORT, v. a. To maim, to hurt, S. B. " Supplicatione be the laird of M'Intosh and his HOSPITALITIE, s. The provision made brother, complaining vpon the laird of Glengarie for for the aged or infirm in hospitals. the slaughter of two gentilmen thair friendis, and hort- "Confermis all actes of in favouris of /;/ some otheris." Acts Cha. I., Ed. 1814, V. 382. parliament burrowis and commwnities thairof as also of all vther Teut. hort-en, pulsare, illidere. ; landis, annualrentis, and commodities, foundit to the s. 1. A socket in HOSE, any implement sustentatioun of the ministrie and hospUaliiie within for receiving a handle or shaft. the same." Acts Ja. VI., 1593, Ed. 1814, p. 28. " L. B. hospilalit-as, hospitale, xenodochium. Hoi- You may make an iron instrument, somewhat pitalitatem Christi, quae necdum et loco illo and cloven in the one end, a ham- pauperum bending, resembling constituit Act. Ceno- and in the with a hose or ligneum erat, petrinam. Episc. mer, other, socket, as a fork man. Du is made for of a or shaft ap. Cange. holding pole ; which being fixed into the it be thrust hose, may down into the s. of HO-SPY, A people ; earth," &c. Maxwell's Sol. Trans., 96. game young p. similar to Hide and Loth. At first view this might seem a figurative use of Dan. Seek, a from the " hose, stocking, resemblance in form. But Ho, Spy ! is chiefly a summer game. Some of the I hesitate whether we not to trace it to the and in their ought party conceal themselves ; when hiding- under id. origin givrn Hoozle, ; especially as the latter places, call out these words to their companions : and be viewed as a dimin. may from Hose. the first who finds has the pleasure of next exercising HOS [620] HOT

his at concealment." Blackw. ingenuity Mag., Aug. HOSTA, interj. Used as an expression of 1821, p. 35. V. HOISPEIIOY and HY SPY. surprise, and perhaps of some degree of s. A knot tied fishermen [HOSSACK, by hesitation, Aug. Husto, hueta, Aberd. ; on the stranded line to strengthen it, Shetl.] expl. "See here, see to it," Shirr. Gl., p. 20. To HOST, HOIST, v. n. 1. To cough, S. A. Bor. I whare tantrums wad eu'." His ene wes how, his voce wes hers hostand. thought your Jamieson's i. 299. 131. Popul. Ball., Henrysone, Bannatyne Poems, p. " He's always compleenin frae morning to e'enin, "(Haves thou) There ! take that ! Gl. This is He hosts and he hirples the weary day lang. considered as a very old word, and may per- ii. be Ritsoris S. Songs, 250. haps equivalent to hear! hear ! a mode of express- 2. and to belch to ing eagerness of attention well known in our supreme Metaph. actively, up, bring council Moes-G. ; haus-jan, audire ; hausei, audi, to the effusions of or hear, forth, applied grief listen. Junius derives this v. from auso, the ear. displeasure. To HOSTAY, v. a. To besiege, Wyntown. The Latine pepill hale on raw Fr. mentioned Ane felloun murnyng maid and woful bere, hostoy-er, id., by Skinner, as obsolete, under And gan deuode and hoistit out ful clere Hostey. He derives it from host, exercitus. Depe from thare breistis the hard sorowis smert. Doug. Virgil, 453, 28. HOSTELER, HOSTELLAB, OSTLER, s. An Host up, is said sarcastically in this sense to a child inn-keeper. who is and who from on a fit of crying, anger brings The blyth holsteler bad thaim gud ayle and breid. S. coughing, The hostdlar son apon a hasty wyss, in and till 3. To hem, S. Hynt fyr hand, a gret houss yeid. Wallace, ix. 1441, 1445, MS. A.-S. hweost-an, Su.-G. host-a, Isl. hoost-a, Belg. This word retained its original sense so late as the hoest-en, id. G. Andr. observes, that Isl. hoost denotes " reign of Charles I. he in the breast the Night being fallen, lodges towards ; to Gr. onya, vox lungs referring Andrew Haddentoun's at the yett-cheek, who was an elata ; Lex., 120. But he derives hoost from " " p. hoes, ostler." James Gordon, Ostler of Turriesoul. Spal- subraucus, hoarse, 103. p. ding, i. 17, 39. Upon complaint by ffostillares to Ja. I. a HOST, HoAST, HOIST, s. 1. A cough, a very singular law was made, prohibiting all travellers to act of S. Bor. single coughing, A. lodge with their friends, and their friends to receive And with that wourd he gave ane hoist anone. them, within boroughs or thoroughfares, under the The heird and is of to the gudman speirit, "Quha yon?" penalty forty shillings King ; that thus they Maitland Dunbar, Poems, p. 75. might be under the necessity of lodging in the inns "Hauste, or Hosts, a dry cough, North." Grose. A. 1425, c. 61. Edit. 1566, c. 56, Murray. Fr. Shirrefs gives in a host, as equivalent to wit/tout a hosteller, hotelier, id. This word like many " has sunk in its sense host, without delay or reluctance ;" Gl. others, greatly ; being transferred This also 0. E. from the landlord to the is was an word ; "Host or coughe. stable-servant, who now Tussis." The v. is in the form. called hostler. " given following Hostyn or coughen. Tussio. Tussito." Prompt. Parv. HOSTILLAR, HOSTILLARIE, s. An inn. " "The that 2. A settled S. King forbiddis, ony leigeman of his cough, realme, trawelland throw the countrie on hors or on and maid Heidwerk, Hoist, Perlasy, grit pay. fute, fra tyme that the commoun hostillaris be maid, Hart, ii. 75. King herbrie or luge thame in ony vther place, bot in the the thirteenth of he hostillaris "From November, [J. Knox,] foirsaid." Acts. Ja. I., ut sup. More pro- became so feeble with a hoast, that he could not con- perly, Hostillaries, Skene, Murray. tinue his ordinar task of reading the Scriptures, which Fr. hoslelerie, id. V. HOSTELEK. he had every day." Calderwood's Hist., p. 60. HOSTERAGE, . The ostrich. 3. A hem, a mode of one in vulgar calling upon "Item, a gardeviant, in the fyrst agrete hosterage fodder." to stop, S. Inventories, p. 11. ' ' " f ostrich Hosterage eddwis, feathers. Aberd . Reg. , 4. Used metaph. to express a thing that is A. 1538, V. 16. attended with no or which either difficulty; s. iv. [HOSTES," A hostess, Barbour, 635, in itself, or in one's apprehension, requires Skeat'sEd.] no consideration. It did na cost him a host, HOT, HOTT, s. A small heap of kind he made no hesitation about it, S. any " A hot as much He that can swallow a camel in the matters of God carelessly put up. of muck, as is laid down from a cart in the without an hoast ; will straine a gnat in the circum- dung stances of his own as all affaires, though they were field at one place, in order to its being spread substance." Course of Conformitie, p. 117. out " a hot of ; stanes," &c., Roxb. But, or without a host, id. There was hay to ca', an Hut to lead, Accordingly the lads were wiled and sent, An hunder hotts o' The taiken muck to spread, shewn that but a host was kent ; An' and turs an' a' to lead : And all the beasts in course of time came name. peats What mean'd the beast to dee ! Ross's Helenore, p. 124. The auld man's mare's dead, &c. A.-S. Isl. Su.-G. hweost, hoost, host-a, Belg. hoest, A mile aboon Dundee, Old Song; Edin. Month. Mag., June huste. Germ, 1817, p. 237. HOT [621] HOU

" Will then laid his arm over the boy and the holt o' 3. Applied to a very fat person, whose skin, elaes, anil fell sound Perils of Man, ii. 255. asleep." the exertion, appears as mo- V. HUT, HAND-HUT. upon slightest : he's in a hotter o' Mearns. Teut. hollen, coalescere, concrescere. ving fat, v. n. 1. To boil to To HOTCH, v. a. and n. 1. To move the To HOTTER, slowly, simmer the idea of the sound body by sudden jerks. Hotchin and lauchin, ; including Aberd., Perths.; Sotter, synon. S. laughing with such violence as to agitate emitted, the whole body, S. 2. Used to denote the bubbling sound emitted "Are sure hae room sir? I wad fain ye ye eneugh, in boiling, ibid. hatch mysell farther yont." St. Ronan, ii. 52. Twa pots soss'd in the chimney nook, sirs ! he's een awa' indeed, Forby ane hottrin' in the crook. Nae mair to shape or draw a thread, W. Beattie't Talei, p. 5. An' hatch an' gigle. A. WUson's Poems, 1790, p. 89. 3. To shudder, to shiver, ibid. 2. To move short as a by heavy leaps frog 4. To be gently shaken in the act of laughing, or toad does, Ettr. For. Perths. To " to aa toads hatch, Lancashire, go by jumps, ;" Aberd. T. Bobbing. 5. To be unsteady in walking, to shake, Isl. sursum hoss-a, quatere, motare ; hoss, mollis Hale be yir crowns, ye canty louns, Tho' now me hotter. quassatio. " age gars "Aw hotcltin," a phrase used in the sense of very Tarras's Poems, p. 73. numerous ;" Ettr. For. 6. To move like a toad, Ettr. For. Teut. huts-en, Belg. hots-en, to jog, to jolt ; whence probably Fr. hoch-er, id. Perhaps we may add lal. "I was eidentlye holteryng alang with muckle hik or \Vint. ii. 41. hagg-a, commo vere, quassere ; hwik, parva com- paishens [patience]." Hogg's Tales, motio. V. HOCKIT. 7. To or other drawn " jolt. A cart, carriage, *. A name for HOTCHIE, general pudd- over a rough road, is said to hotter, Roxb. ings ;" Gl. Buchan. 8. or make a noise. The hotchie reams, the girdle steams, To rattle, blattering litt'lans rin An clean doited. Athwart the lyft the thun'er rair'd, Tarras's Poems, p. 72. Wi' awfu' liottrin din. A. Anc. 13. Apparently a cant term, from the jerking motion of Baronne o' Oairtly, Laing's Ball., p. a pudding, when boiling, or on the gridiron. V. Teut. hort-en, Fr. heurt-er, id. To avoid the trails- cito HOTCH. position, we might perhaps trace it to Isl. hwidr-a, commoveri. HOTCH-POTCH, s. A dish of broth, made School used in ridi- with mutton or lamb cut into small HOTTIE. A High term, pieces, he culing one who has got something, that together with green peas, carrots, turnips, does not know of, pinned at his back. His and sometimes parsley or celery, served up sportive class-fellows call after him, Ilottie ! with the meat in it, S. Hottie ! Teut. huts-pot, Fr. hachepot. Kilian derives the O. Fr. mod. to take ; word from huts-en, to shake. Johns, conjectures con- Perhaps from host-er, ot-er, away "remove what behind cerning the Fr. word, that it is hachis en pot. q. hotez, you carry you." hotche O. E. potte, expl. haricot, also tripotaige ; " *. which has not a Palsgrave. HOTTLE, Any thing firm base of itself, such as a young child, To v. a. with HOTT, Synon. ffotch, q. v., to walk the same with when beginning ; and used in the same manner ; he hottit and Tottle ;" Gall. Encycl. leuch; Fife. This seems merely a provincial variety of ffoddle, to v. Both be allied to Teut. To HOTTER, v. a. To crowd together, con- waddle, q. may hoetelen, inartificialiter se Kilian the idea of individual S.O. gerere, ignaviter aliquid agere, ; veying motion, "to bungle," Sewel. 'Twas a muir-hen, an' monie a pout Was riuuin, hotterin round about. HOTTRED. V. FUTE HATE. Rev. J. Nicol's Poems, ii. 102. To v. n. 1. A term Perhaps a dimin. from Teut. hotl-en, coalescere, con- HOU, Hoo, HOUCH, crescere. This, however, is especially used with used to express the cry of an owl, to hoot, respect to curdling. Lanarks. The term under consideration may be a corr. of The houlet hou't through the riftit rock, Howder, v. n., as nearly allied in signification. The tod on the hill yowl't ; Whan an eldritch whish soucht the HOTTER, *. 1. A crowd or multitude of small through lift, And a' fell still animals in deadly motion, Loth.; Hatter, synou. Ifarmaiden of Clyde, Edin. Mag., Ifay 1820. Fife.; Clydes. 2. Applied also to the melancholy whistling 2. The motion made such a or of the wind, by crowd ; as, howling Clydes. " It's a' in a hotter" Mearns. 3. To holla, to shout, ibid. HOU [622] HOU

To birds from [4. frighten away grain, &c., HOUDLE, the simultaneous motion of a ibid.] great number of small creatures which may HOUAN*, part. pr. Howling, Clydes. be compared to an ant-hill, Fife. Doun cam the rain an' souchan' hail, Will To v. n. To move in the manner sang the houari win [wind]. HOUDLE, Edin. Ballad, Mag., Oct. 1818, p. 320. described, ibid.; apparently synon. with Hotter. HouiN, s. The dreary whistling of the wind; ibid. It seema to have a common origin with Belg. hutsel- en, to shake and down, to huddle It Isl. canum media inter up together. may hwda, vox, murmur et latra- indeed be the same with tum. E. huddle, Germ, hudel-n, id. Teut. hou, houw, celeusma. C. B. "to holloo hwa, ; HOUFF, s. A haunt. V. HOIF. to hout ;" also hwchw, a of a scream " cry hollo, ; hwhw, the of an owl Owen. To v. n. take shelter hooting ;" HOUFF, To ; to haunt, to to some haunt often used . A rooftree ; to ; Gl. Earns. V. go merely HOU, How, " s. 4. denote a short stay in a house. Where did you gae?" "I was hou/'d," S. V. [To HOUCK, v. n. To be constantly hang- HOIF. ing about a place in idleness, to loaf about; K. i. 22. V. BLONKS. houckiiC, used also as an s. and as HOUFFIT, Hart, part. pr. " Where was't that Robertson and were used to an adj., Banffs. The prep, about is often you ? about the I used with this howff thegither Somegate Laigh Calton, verb.] am thinking." Heart of Mid Lothian, ii. 196. s. 1. of resort for [HoucK, A place idlers, HOUFFIE, adj. Snug, comfortable; applied Banffs. to a Koxb. a place, ; q. affording good hou/ 2. The act of hanging about a place in idle- or haunt. ness, ibid.] HOUGGY STAFF, HUGGIE STAFF. An To v. n. 1. To to move iron hook for fish into a Shet. HOUD, wriggle ; hauling boat; from side to whether or sit- Dan. Su.-G. Isl. hake, incurva side, walking liage, uncus, cuspis ; hok'mn, incurvus. ting, S. To v. a. To throw a stone 2. To move by jerks, Loth, synon. hotch. HOUGH, by the and the stone from Belg. houtt-en signifies to halt, and Sw. wed-ja, to raising hough, casting wriggle. But it is doubtful if it has any affinity to under it, S. B. either. V. HODDIN. HOUGH AN OAR. To the handle 3. rock. [To place To A boat, tub, or barrel, sailing of an oar under the thigh in order to rest about in a pool, is said to houd, in reference oneself after rowing, Shetl.] to its rocking motion, Eoxb. Auld Horny thought Fo gar him howd HOUGH, adj. This seems to signify, having the for the Upo' gallows ; gowd a hollow sound, as the same with how. He gat lang syne, an' wadna set being His signature, to show the debt. "The black man's voice was hough and goustie." The Piper of Peebles, p. 20. Confess. Scotch Witches, Glanville's Sadduc., p. 393. this Glanville observes His e'e still on the water cast, On ; "Several words I profess Lest our proud faes, in numbers vast, I understand not, as for example concerning the black Should cram their islands o' flotillas, man's voice, that it was hough and goustie. But if the An' on the howding groaning billows, voice of this black man be like that of his [him] who to make their awl'u' Try good boasts appeared to the Witches whom Mr. Hunt examined O' hurling vengeance on our coasts. they may signify a big and low voice. Ibid., p. 396. A. Scott's Poems, 1811, p. 42. But as we still speak of one having a how voice, when Teut. hevde and hode navis signify celox, vectoria. it resembles the sound proceeding from an empty barrel, is V. the word. HOUD, s. The motion of the body from side goustie nearly synou. to side the act of mean ; wriggling, S. B. V. HOUGH, adj. (gutt.) Low, ; pron. the v. hogh. Now when thou tells how I was bred HOUDEE, HOWDOYE, s. A a But to a mean trade sycophant, ; " hough enough To ballance that, let them ken flatterer ; as, She's an auld houdee" pray saul to cou'd Teviotd. My higher pitch sten. Ramsay's Poems, xi. 581. This term ' ' " has most probably originated with the Very indifferently, N. The phrase hough enough, vulgar, from the ridicule attached to a real or apparent is often used to denote that one is in a poor state of affectation of superior style and manners in those whom health, S. accounted their or to the of they equals ; appearance The sense in which it is used in the following pas- great complaisance in putting the question How do ye ? sage is uncertain Or it has been considered as a that perhaps proof one, It's said he call'd one oft aside, so much meant to favour with by complaisance, curry To ask of beatten buttons prices, another. Of silver work or strange divises : HOU [623] HOU

Tlio' she be somewhat old and teugh, HOUXDEH-OUT, t. One who excites others She's a Scots woman hoiujh enough. to any mischievous or injurious work. Cldarufa Poem, p. 14. invasione be committed lawlea and to the mind "The may by It may have been originally applied ; animus wnresponsall men, the hounders out of quhome cannot Su.-G. hoy-a, to be anxious, from liog, ; detected." Acts Cha. I., Ed. 1817, V. 22. A.-S. id. begottin " Thereafter the lords demand whether he was art and or on the or hounder-out of thir HOUGHAM, s. Bent pieces of wood, slung part, counsel, gen- tlemen of the name of Gordon, to do such open on each side of a for supporting " oppres- horse, sions and injuries as they did daily ? Spalding, i. 43. dung-panniers, are called houghams, Teviotd. V. OCT- BOUNDER. I that this is the same with Jfoe/times and suspect ; HOUP, s. Hope; the true pronunciation of that it gives the proper signification of that word. S. To v. a. To tie a band HOUGH-BAND, Yet houp, the cheerer of the mind, round the hough of a cow, or horse, to pre- Can tend us 'gainst an adverse wind. Turrets't Poenu, p. 16. vent it from S. A. straying, Belg. hoop, hoope, id.

. The band used for this HOUGH-BAND, HOUP, *. Hops, Aberd. ibid. V. HOCH-BAN'. purpose, Nor did we drink a' gilpin water, But reemiii nap wi' honp weel heat-tit. s. V. HOCHMA- [HOUGHMAGANDIE, Ibid., p. 24. GANDIE.] HOUP, . A mouthful of any drink, a taste To HOUK, t>. a. To dig. V. HOLK. of any liquid, Moray. from Isl. bucca, fauces, the To HOUK, v. a. "Expl. to heap;" Gl. Sibb. Perhaps hwopt, chops, q. what fills the chops or mouth. a. a HOUK, A hulk, large ship. v. a. To drink mouthfuls [To HOUP, by ; The meikle houk hym bare, was Triton callit. used also as a s., Doug. Virgil, 321, 65. part. pr. houpin', Banffs.j .In ni us derives this from A.-S. fiulc, tugurium, q. HOURIS, s.pl. 1. Matins, morning prayers. domus seu casa marina. But hulc in Gl. Aelfr. is "In the tyme of King Malcolme was ane generall rendered liburna, a light and swift ship, a galley. counsal haldyn at Clairmont, in the quhilk Urbane the Alem. holech, Su.-G. hoik, navis oneraria, Belg. hulcke, secound of that name institut the liouris & matynix Ital. hulca, Fr. Imlque, L. B. hulcuw, hulca. The of the blissit virgyne Mary to be said dayly in hir origin is probably Su.-G. holk-a, to excavate, because Bellend. Cron., B. xii., c. 12. the first vessels, known to barbarous nations, were louing." mere out of trunks of trees. canoes, dug 2. Metaph. applied to the chanting of birds. To HOULAT, v. a. and n. 1. To reduce Lusty May, that muddir is of flouris, Had made the birdis to thair htmris to a Perths. derived begyn henpeck'd state, ; per- Amang the tendir odouris reid and quhyt. haps from the popular fable of the houlat or Dunbar, Bannatyne J'uenis, p. 1, st. 1. the same calls them owl having all its borrowed plumage This poet, making allusion, Venus chaptU-clarks, Ibid., p. 8, st. 3. off. plucked Fr. heures, L. B. horae, a book of prayers appropri- ated to certain hours in the [2. To go about in a downcast and peevish morning. state, to look miserable, Clydes.] HOURS. Ten hours, ten o'clock. What HOULAT-LIKE, a and hours, what o'clock, S. adj. Having meagre " That 11.1 enter na cum in a of feeble appearance, puny, S. Upper folk, burgh the realme, bot thryse in the oulk, fra ten houre* to s. land twa efter mine." Acts Ja. I., 1427, o. 118. Edit. [HOULLAND, High ; many places 1566, c. 105. Murray. in Shetland are so named. Isl. holt, colli- If he at Dover through them glance, culus.] He sees what hours it is in France. Colvil'a Mode Poem, p. 32. To HOUND, HUND out, v. a. To set on, to Fr. qu'elle heure eel il ? what is it o'clock ? encourage to do injury to others, S. To In S. they tell what it is o' clock by using the . pi.

with the numeral ; a Fr. idiom. hund mischief, to incite some other person preceding while ten-hours drum to work mischief, while the Retire, noisy primary agent Gars a' your trades gae dandling hame. stands and out of the xi 96. aside, keeps scrape ; Feryusson's Poems, Roxb. The same mode of expressing time is still used in some counties, through all the numbers commonly em- v. n. To on the in as two three- To HOUND Fair, proceed ployed reckoning ; twa-houra, o'clock, three &c. Even the first proper scent. hours, o'clock, tax-hours, numeral is conjoined with the plural noun ; ane-hours, "The treasurer to be for the yet professed bishops, one o'clock, Upp. Lanarks. but betrayed himself not only by his private corres- pondence with the supplicants, but also by his car- HOUSEL, s. The socket in which the in public, which tended altogether to direct them riage " handle of a dung-fork is fixed, Berwicks. to hound fair, and encourage them to go on. Guthry 's V. HOOZLE. Mem., p. 26. HOU [624] HOV

of House Lanarks. HOUSEN, pi, ; houses, HOUSTRIN, HUISTRIN, part. adj. Bustling, or Renf. but confused; as, "a huintrin' body," Fife. will tak' a man? lassie, ye Probably from Fr. hostiere. Gueux d' hostiere, such Rich in housen, an' Ian ? gear as beg from doore to doore, Cotgr. Houstrie may be Tannahill's Poems, 13. p. q. the contents of a beggar's wallet. s. An entertainment HOUSE-HEATING, HOUT, interj. V. HOOT. given, or carousal held, in a new house. HOUTTIE, adj. Of a testy humour, Fife. This, according to ancient custom, especially in the Ji6ta country, must be heated, S. House-warming, E. V. Isl. (pron. Itouta), minari. To HEAT A HOUSE. HOVE. ARTHURY'S HOVE. V. HOIF. HOUSE-SIDE, s. A coarse used to figure, To HOVE, v.n. 1. To swell, S. A. Bor. denote a " big clumsy person ; as, Sic a 2. o' To rise, to ascend. house-side a wife," q. a woman as broad Some saidled a shee ape, all into green, as the side of a house, S. B. grathed Some hobland on a hemp stalk, hovand to the hight. Polwart, Watson's 12. s. A servant who Coll., iii., p. [HOUSE-BERDEEN, ' ' " Hove, swoln as cheeses ; Rural Econ. Gloucest. Gl. has of the out-door work on a " charge farm, Mr. J. Hog says, that the whole body is hoved and Isl. and to swelled like a loaf. Prize Shetl.; hus, varda, take charge Essays Highl. Soc., iii. 368. Dan. hov-er, id. from elevare. of.] Sw.foerhoef-a, haefw-a, Alem. hob-on, levare. Isl. must be viewed as HOUSEWIFESKEP, s. Housewifery, S. homn-a, intumescere, belong- to the same as is ing family ; mn often interchanged My hand is in my housewifeskff, with v, f, and b. Thus Su.-G. hamn is the same with Goodman, as ye may see. Isl. Germ, E. liafn, hafen, haven, portus ; Su.-G. Old Song. jemn, V. HlSSIESKIP. with Moes.-G. ibn, Isl. jafn, E. even, aequalis. To v. a. To to S. HOUSIE, s. A small house; a diminutive, S. HOVE, swell, innate, Some ill-brew'd drink had hov'd her wame, &c. "No being used to the like o' that, you'll no care Burns, iii 48. about enterin' her wee bit housie, though she aye keeps't nice and clean." Glenfergus, ii. 158. HOVING, s. Swelling, the state of being This term is often expressive of attachment to one's swelled ; to bread, cheese, the hu- habitation, although it should appear mean to others. applied man body, &c., S. *. a fortified HOUSS, A castle, place. "Having is seldom met with in the sweet milk Off houssis that is our cheese of that &c. part heretage, county," Agr. Surv. Ayrs., p. 456. Chvt off this pees in playn I mak thaim knawin, V. FYKE-FANGIT. Thaim for to sen that thai ar wyn, our awin ; Roxburch, Berweik, at ouris Jang tym has beyn, To HOVE, How, HUFE, HUFF, v. n. 1. To In to the handis of you fals Sothroue keyn. lodge, to remain. Wallace, via 1509, BIS. Men, that rycht weill horsyt wer This seems the sense of houss, Ibid., ix. 1748, MS. And armyt, a gret cumpany Gif that the Sotheroun wald Behind the bataillis priuely Houss to or turn to Lochmaban. persew, He gert huwe, to bid thair cummyng. This use of lius I have not met with in A.-S. It oc- Harbour, xix. 345, MS. in curs, however, Su.-G., as rendered by Hire, castel- A round place wallit have I found, lum, arx. Aft han ej lati uthfoddan man hwsom ae.ller In myddis quhare eftsone I have spide the landom radha ; Ne rex sinat exteros arces aut provin- Fortune, goddesse, hufing on the ground. cias in potestate habere; Leg. Christoph., ap. Ihre, vo. King's Quair, v. 8. Hus. He that in the Dalic law adds, Husabyman sig- 2. To to to in nifies halt, stay, ; the same the Governor of a castle ; and that in the Ale- tarry manic hus is often used in this sense in which hover is now used. laws, sense ; as in the

: Ob si aim huse uarent Si cas- following passage fur ; Eneas hovit stil-the schot to byde, tellum obsideant c. 250. aliquod ; Hym schroudand vnder hys armour and his schield. " Doug. Virgil, 427, 39. s. One whose clothes are ill HOUSTER, Eftir thay had al circulit in ane ring, put on," Fife. All reddy hufand thare cursoris for to tak, Epytides on fer ane sing can mak Than ran To HOUSTER, v. a. To gather confusedly, thay samyn in paris with ane quhidder. i i Doug. Virgil, 146, 55. ibid. It is used in 0. E. as signifying to remain erl of HOUSTUIE, HOAVSTRIE, s. 1. Soft, bad, nasty Morond, Gloucestre, myd ys ost by syde, In ane valleye houede, the endyne vorto abyde. food; a mixture of different sorts generally R. Glouc., p. 218. of meat, Roxb. Gloss, "hoved, hovered, lay." Before Pilate and other in the he houed. 2. Trash, Fife. people, place trumpery ; pron. huistrie, P. Ploughman, Fol. 98, a. Let us for the trial practice ; This knight, which houed and abod Cast an' coat, hat, an' ither houstrie, Embuisshed vpon horsbake, An' ding Browuhills, and neibour Troustrie. All sodeulyche vpon hym brake. Lieut. C. Poems. Gray's Gamer's Conf. Am., Fol. 44, a. HOV [625] ftow

It This word, which conveys the general idea of re- is an old adage, Loth. : maining or abiding, is probably from Germ, hof-en, When the mist taks the hows, domo et and have been pri- Oude weather it hospitio excipere ; may grows. used to denote residence in a house ; from hof, marily Highis and hows, high and low districts or spots, S. c Inn i us, or hufe, fundus rusticus. I scarcely think that hove is allied to Isl. hey-a, moror, commoror, tempus 3. The hold of a ship. fallo G. 108. ; Andr., p. The hate fyre consumes fast the how, Ouer al the schip discendis the perrellus low. ! halt ! word used HOVE, interj. Stop A Doug. Virgil, 150, 41. in calling a cow when going at large, to be Not hull, as Rudd. renders it. milked; often Hove-Lady,Berw.,Roxb. Our caruellis howis ladnis and prymys he. Ibid., 83, 46. "In calling a cow to be milked, hove, hove, often re- " Ane how of ane all hir in the scheip, and geir." Aberd. peated, is the ordinary expression ; anciently " Reg., A. 1543, V. 18. Lothians this was prrutchy and prrutchy lady. Agr. "Carina, the how of a Wedderb. Vocab., Surv. Berw., p. 503. ship." p. 22. Hove is evidently meant in the sense of stop, halt. V. HOVE, v., sense 2. 4. In the howes, figuratively used, chopfallen, in the dumps, Upp. Glydes. To HOVER, t>. n. To tarry, to delay, S. O. in the "ffot-er, to stay or stop, North." Grose. V. HOVE, 5. Dung howes, overturned; metaph. sense v., 2. "Thomas Goodwin, and his brethren, as their cus- tom is to oppose all things that are good, carried it so, s. 1. uncer- HOVER, Suspense, hesitation, that all was dung in the howes, and that matter clean tainty. In a state of hover, at a loss, S. B. laid by." Baillie's Lett., ii. 59, q. driven into the hol- lows. Her heart for Lindy now began to beal, Su.-G. caverna. An' was in hover great to think him leal. hall, Mots'a Hdenore, First Ed., p. 64. HOWIE, s. A small plain, Buchan. Johns, derives the E. v. from C. B. hovio, to hand Welcome, ye couthie canty howie, over. Sw. hoefw-a signifies to fluctuate. Whare roun" the ingle bickers row ay, &c. Return to Buchan, Tarras's Poems, p. 125. 2 . In a hover, is a phrase applied to the weather, when, from the state of the atmosphere, one How o' THE NICHT. Midnight, Koxb.; How- it will is uncertain whether rain or be fair, nicht, id. S. In a dackle, id., S. B. "Without some mode of private wooing, it was well known that no man in the could Sw. haefw-a, fluctuare. country possibly pro- cure a wife ; for that darkness rendered a promise which in for a mere 3. To stand in hover, to be in a state of hesit- serious, passed open day joke, or words of course. 'Ye ken fu" weel, ation. gudeman, ye i' o' the courtit me the Howe night yoursel' ; an' I hae " "The Frenchmen cam peartlie fordward to Tarbat never had cause to rue our bits o' trysts i' the dark.' mylne, quhair they stood in hover, and tuik consulta- Brownie of Bodsbeck, i. 9. tioun quhat was best to be done." Pitscottie's Cron., "Them that we ken to be half-rotten i' their p. 537. graves, come an' visit our fire-sides at the house o' the night." Ibid., ii. 46. HOW, adj. 1. Hollow. V. HOLL. How o' WINTER. The middle or depth of 2. to that term of the Poetically applied day winter, from November to January, Roxb., when the stomach becomes hollow or empty Fife. from abstinence. long How o' THE YEAR. Synon. with the How o' This is the how and hungry hour, S. When the best cures for grief, Winter, Are cog-fous of the lythy kail, . a a Orkn. And a good of beet HOW, A mound, tumulus, knoll, junt " Watty and Madge, Herd's Coll., ii. 198. Close by the above mentioned circle of stones, are several tumuli some of them raised 3. in low evidently artificial, Dejected, spirits ; through poverty, pretty high, of a conical form, and somewhat hollow misfortune, or failing health, Banffs., on the top. About half a mile from the semicircular is another beautiful con- Aberd.; most probably an idiom similar range of stones, tumulus, than the former, around which has to in the howes. V. next siderably larger that, Dung word, been a ditch. This last is distinguished the large " by sense 4. name of Mesotc, or Mese-how. "In this country, how is of the same import with How, s. 1. hollow S. or in other of Scotland, and is Any place, knoll, know, parts ap-" whether artificial or natural. He taks the eate and travels, as he dow, plied to elevated hillocks, Hamewith, thro' nicmy a toilsome height and how. P. Firth, Orkn. Statist. Ace., xiv. 135. Ross's Jtelenore, p. 44. How is used in the very same sense, A. Bor., "s>

round hillock, artificial or natural ; a tumulus ;" Grose. 2. A or tract of flat S. plain, ground, How is certainly no other than Isl. haug, Su.-G. "It is placed at the south extremity of an extensive hoeg, the name given to those sepulchral mounds, which, plain, known the How, or hollow lands, in the time of heathenism, were erected in memory, generally" by of the M earns. P. Mary-kirk, Kincard. Statist. Ace., and in honour, of the dead. Hence heigast signifies, to xviii. 609. be interred according to the customs of heathenism ;

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sense in which A.-S. oc- and those who had not been initiated into a profession This seems the only hufe tiara, of the Christian faith, were called hoegemaen. Hence curs ; cidaris, tiara, Biscopex hufe, episcopi Teut. is also vitta. also, after the introduction of Christianity, it became mitra. huyve rendered, one built customary to call an ancient village, i.e., HAPPY HOW. A during heathenism, hoegabyr. A mound, from which 3. SELY HOAV, HELY HOW, the kings distributed justice to their subjects, was de- membrane on the head, with which some nominated the mound or tumulus of Tinghoeg, i.e., children are born S. B. Both in of ; pron. hoo, convention ; such as those the neighbourhood of S. this Upsal, exactly corresponding to our Moothill of Scone. in the N. and South covering V. vo. In of Sweden there Ihre, Hoeg. many places is carefully preserved till death, first by are surrounded with stones set on end, at Tinghoegs, the mothers, and afterwards those born which the judge and jury of the Hundred used to meet. by loss of it In Isl. the name haug-buar was given to the spirits of with it; from the idea that the the or to inhabit these tumuli, dead, spectres, supposed would be attended with some signal misfor- from haug and bua, to inhabit. The ignes fatui, some- tune. times seen about the mansions of the dead, were also " called haug-eldar, i.e., the fires of the tumulus. Verel. In Scotland the women call a haly or sely how (i.e., Ind. holy or fortunate cap or hood) a film or membrane Dr. Barry, I find, forms the same idea with respect stretched over the heads of children new born, which the to the proper meaning of the term. is nothing else, but a part of that which covers in under a tumulus out that children so "He was buried Ronaldsay, ; foetus in the womb ; and they give which was then known by the name of Haugagerdium ; born will be very fortunate." Rudd. and is perhaps the same with what we now call the This superstition has extended to E. where, it would How of Hoogsay; Ihre, Hoeg, Cumulus." Hist, of seem, the use of this coif was more particularly known. are Orkney, p. 115, 116. "That natural couer wherewith some children from the sillie Mid- The learned Ihre derives the word hoeg, high ; borne, and is called by our women how, and mentions O. E. ho, how, L. B. hoga, as synon. wiues were wont to sell to Aduocates and Lawyers, as and Spelman, vo. Hoga, observes that ho, how, signifies an especial meanes to furnish them with eloquence which he in Antonin. Diadum. and mons, collis. But from the examples gives, persuasive speech (Lamprid. ) the should make it seems doubtful if this be radically the same with to stoppe the mouthes of all, who any at rate have been for which cause one Protus Northern terms. It must any changed opposition against them ; to have in its application. For it is used to denote a rocky hill, was accused by the Clergie of Constantinople quendam hogum petrosum. It seems more allied to offended in this matter (Balsamon. Comment, ad Concil. S. a v. For a further account of the in and often ac- Heuch, crag, q. Constantinop. Trullo) ; Chrysostome use of Isl. haug. V. BAYLE-FYKE. cuseth midwiues for reserving the same to magical 0. Fr. hogue, hoge, elevation, colline, hauteur. uses." Roberts' Treatise of Witchcraft, Loud., 1616, it Lat. Roquefort oddly deduces from faux, fancis, p. 66. but the term the of into h. the word as used in expl. by change / Johns. , mentioning by Brown, his Vulgar Errors, rightly derives silly from A.-S. To v. a. To reduce, to drain, to thin, but how from head. HOW, selig, happy ; improperly heoft, in Sweden. to diminish in number or quantity, Aberd. This superstition also prevails Hence, this has received the name of segerhufwa, literally, the s. Reduction, diminution, ibid. " " from How, how or coif of victory ; because," says Ihre, the idea of how or hollow the of former times, it was believed, that Perhaps from rendering ; simplicity in it of a if not from the practice of hoeing. this membrane had something happy omen, and that it victory to those who especially " portended s. 1. A or it vo. Here we observe the HOW, coif, hood, nightcap, were born with ; Seger. the Goths. had no idea Eudd. It is still used in the latter sense, characteristic spirit of They of to that of success in war. In S. B. hoo. happiness paramount pron. Dan. it is sejerskiorte, "a hood or coif," Wolff; brek on a To my hede, and syne put how, literally, a skirt of victory. bot it accordis It may wele rhyme, nought. From the quotation given above, it is evident that Sail. 1508. Pink. & P. R., iii. 124. in the Edin., this, like many other superstitions, originated "Break my head, and put on my hoo." S. Prov. darkness of heathenism. Lampridius refers to this Kelly renders the term "night-cap," explaining this circumstance as the reason of the name given to Anton- E. "Break and me mentions the proverb by the one, my head, bring inus the son of Macrinus ; and supposed a plaister." P. 61. efficacy of this membrane with advocates ; although Chauc. howve, id. Tyrwh. derives it from Teut. he had so much good sense as to laugh at the idea. refers hoofd, caput, Note, v. 3909. But Rudd. properly Solent deinde pueri pileo insigniri naturali quod ob- the head. si- to Belg. Jmyve, a coif, and huyv-en, to cover stetriees rapiunt, et advocatis credulis vendunt, We may add Su.-G. hufwa, hwif, Dan. hue, Germ. quidem causidici hoc juvari dicuntur : ut iste puer haube, C. B. hwf, tegmen capitis muliebre. The Fr. pileum non habuit, sed diadema, sed ita forte ut rumpi whence E. nervi changing h into c, have made coife, coif. non potuerit, venis intercedentibus specie sagit- Ihre supposes that Moes-G. vaif, a fillet or headband, tarii. Ferunt denique Diadematum puerum appellatum, radical term. from vaib-an, to bind, to surround is the &e. Histor. August, p. 98. a Mr. Tooke derives the term from hof, the part. pa. of Casaubon, in his Notes on this passage, refers to A.-S. heaf-an, to heave or lift up. Fr. Prov. which shows that the same superstition had is fanciful. de eo [The origin of Fr. coiffe, as given above, existed in that country. Dicimus enim quern and Natus est Brachet traces it to L. cofea, which became cofia, appellavit satyricus, gallinae albae filium, V. Brachet's II le ne tout "Born that, by attraction of i, became coiffe. pikatus. Not., p. 141. coiffi ; Press borne with his mother's Etym. Diet. Fr. Lang., Clarendon Series.] riche, honourable, fortunate ; kercher about his head ;" Cotgr. 2. A garland, a chaplet. haris al towkit on thare of which Thare war vp crpun, HOW, Hou, Hoo, *. A piece wood, That with how and helme was thristit doun. bayth the at the Doug. Virgil, 146, 18. joins couple-wings together top, HOW [627] HOW

on which rests the roof-tree of a thatched 2. As applied to the voice, denoting a guttural house, S. kind of noise, ibid. Unlockt the barn, clam up the mow, s. The medlar Where was an opening near the hou, HOW-DOUP, apple, Mes- Throw which he saw a of glent light. pilus Germanica, Loth. Hose doup, Roxb. Railway's Voemi, ii. 523. Su.-G. summitas tecti. Atr helt bade huu oc s. huf, A great ; the term is fundamen- [HOWD, quantity heller ; si integrum fuit tarn tectuin quam in various an applied ways; as, "a howd o' tum. Westm. L. ap. Dire. This may be only " for a sum of a o' oblique sense of hufwa, a coif or covering the head ; siller," great money ; howd which Ihre also writes vo. hup, (operculum, tegmen), ween," a strong gale of wind, Banffs.] Haell, p. 808. But I have given this distinctly, as he from distinguishes huf hufwa. To HOWD, v. n. To rock, as a boat on the to move and down. V. v. HOW, *. A hoe, an instrument for turning waves, up HOUD, the surface of the S. Fr. houe, v. a. as up ground, [To HOWD, Same HOWDLE, q. v.]

To v. a. To hide, Fife. V. v. Pikkys. hovris, and with staf slyng HOWD, HOD, To ilk and his lord, bataill, To v. a. To to Loth. Wes ordanyt, quhar he suld assaill. HOWDER, hide, conceal, Barbour, xvli. 344, MS. Howder'd wi' hills a crystal burnie ran, a narrow iron rake without Grose. Where twa young shepherds fand the good auld man. "How, teeth," ' I'oems, ii. 8. This is given as a term common to various provinces. HOWDERT, part. adj. Hidden, S. O., Gl. To v. a. To S. How, hoe, Picken. HOWER, s. One who hoes, or can hoe, S. adv. In HOWDLINS, secret, clandestinely ; s. act of S. HOWIN, The hoeing, to done ibid. applied any thing by stealth, ; in HOW, Hou, s. 1. A term used to denote hidlins, synon. It has been that the term the sound made by the owl. supposed hmvdy, as de- noting a midwife, has its origin from this v., because Scho soundis so with hiss and how, mony she performs her work houidlins, or in secret, the male And in his scheild can with hyr wyngis smyte. part of the family being excluded. But this is to Doug. Virgil, 444, 22. derive a word of pretty general use from a mere pro- Isl. the voice of their flocks hoo, shepherds, driving ; vincialism. or Fr. hu-er, to hoot, to shout. 2. A sea cheer. HOWDRAND, part. pa. Off all great kindes may ye claim, Thare feris exhortyng with heys and how. [kindnesj mony The cruke backs, and the 39. cripple, lame, Doug. Virgil, 71, howdrand faults with Ay your suplie ; V. HEYS. and " Tailyiors Soutars blest be ye. Than ane of the marynalis begun to hail and to Dunbar, Evergreen, i. 255, st. 8. cry, and al the marynalis ansuert of that samyn hou, V. HOWDER, v. hou." S., p. 62. a dcriv. from S. Compl. Perhaps B. hode, to hide ; or allied It seems to be the same cry which is still used to Teut. by hoeder, receptaculum, retinaculum ; Kilian. mariners in this country. Wachtcr views Moes-G. hetkio, a closet, Mat. vi. 6, as Teut. celeusma. hou, houw, the origin of Germ, hut-en, to hide. a call to one at a HOW, interj. Ho, distance, To HOWD, v. a. To act the part of a mid- to listen or to stop. wife, to deliver a woman in labour, S. And hey Annie ! and how Annie, &c. V. HEY. Isl. also iod, childbirth, offspring, foetus, proles ; This be the same with Teut. hens iod the of may houw, eho, ; aott, pangs childbirth, iodgiuk quinna, a or merely the imper. of the old v. signifying to stop. woman in labour. Ihre has observed, that Su.-G. V. Ho, v. iordgumma, a midwife, is properly, iodyumma, from as the iod, childbirth, and gamma, woman ; vulgar in To v. n. To to HOW, remain, tarry. V. this country often express the name, hondy-wife. HOVE. Alem. odau signifies panendus. V. next word.

HOWDY, s. A midwife, S. A. Bor. [HowAND, part. pr. Hovering, halting, When mare stood still and swat wi' in xv. 461. Mungo's fright, waiting readiness, Barbour, he east the under When brought howdy night ; Evidently for hovand. Skeat's Ed. has You, Lucky, gat the wyte of a' fell out. huvande; Hart's, houand. V. Gl. Skeat's Ramsay's Poems, ii. 98. The Ir. and Gael, designation cuidiyh, chuidigfi, Ed.] might seem allied to the Goth, terms mentioned nnder the v., were it not formed from HOWCH, adj. 1. Hollow; applied to situa- evidently cuidigfuim, to help, to assist. It is not improbable, that the Goth. tion, Lanarks. Upp. and Gael, terms have had a common fountain, as they in An' the wilcat yow't through its dowie vouts, scarcely differ, except the aspiration. Brand, with Sae goustie, howch, and dim. less judgment than he usually displays, when ridi- Marmaiden Edin. 1820. those derive of Clyde, Hag. , Hay culing who Howdy from How do ye, views HOW [628] HOW

it as a diminutive from How (the sely how) because of HOWF, s. A severe blow on the ear, given the of old women as to this natural coif. superstition with a circular motion of the arm, Roxb. Popular Antiq., p. 367, 368, N. Tout, houwe, vulnus. HOWDIE-FEE, s. The fee given to a midwife, Dumfr. HOWFIN, s. A clumsy, awkward, sense- less person, Aberd.; perhaps originally the I creeshed kimmer's loof weel wi' howdy fee, Else a cradle had never been rocked for me. same with Houphyn, q. v. Blackw. Mag., June 1820, p. 277. a HOWFING, adj. Mean, shabby, having s. A loud of Aberd. HOWDER, gale wind, beggarly appearance. Allied aeris perhaps to Isl. hwida, cito commotio ; Ane hamelie hat, a cott of kelt, whence hwidr-a, cito commoveri. G. Andr. indeed Weill beltit in ane lethrone belt, derives hwida from ved-r, aer. C. B. chioyth, however, A bair clock, and a bachlane naig. was a brave embassado* signifies a blast, a gale. Thair Befoir so noble ane auditor, The of To v. n. To move jerks, S. Quene Englandis Maiestie, HOWDER, by Hir counsall and nobilitie. to hatch, synon. Allace, that Scotland had no schame, To send sic carles from hame. Menyies o' moths an' flaes are shook, hmofaig St. Poems Sixteenth 327. An' in the floor they howder. Legend, Bp. Androis, Cent., p. Fergusson's Poems, ii. 60. Perhaps allied to Teut. hoef, hoeve, a village, q. vul- Allied, most probably, to Isl. hwidr-a, cito commov- gar, rustic. eri. Hence, adv. Bar- [HOW-GAT," HOW-GATIS, How, v. a. To hide. V. under [To HOWDER, bour, ii. 156, iv. 439.] ToHowD.] HOWIE, s. An erratum for sowie. ex- " To HOWDLE, v. n. 1 . To crowd together, Bring gavelocks and ern mella, pinching-bars, Fife. howies, and break every gate, bar, and door in this pressive of a hobbling sort of motion, " castle. Perils of Man, iii. 3. V. Sow, a military en- as a boat on the &c. [2. To move up and down, gine, Banffs. sea, HOWIE, CASTLE-HOWIE, s. The name in to such of the Picts' 3. To walk in a limping manner, ibid.] given, Orkney, houses as still like tumuli or HOWDLE, v. a. 1. To move upwards and appear large [To hillocks. as downwards, or in all directions ; when This is evidently a dimin. from How, a tumulus, a child to rest, ibid. lulling q. v. 2. To in a careless manner, carry clumsy, ibid.] HOWIS, s. pi. Hose, or stockings. "Item, nyne pair of leg sokis. Item, ten howis, sewit HOWDLE,*. 1. A crowd in motion, ibid.; sy- with reid silk, grene silk, and blak silk." Inventories, non. Smatter. A. 1579, p. 282. Teut. hoetel-en, inartificoise se gerere. To HOWK, v. a. To dig. V. HOLK. [2. A rock or limp in walking, ibid.] [HOWK-BACK, s. A bent back, a hump s. One who rocks or in [HowDLER, limps back, Banffs.] or walks in a awkward walking, heavy, back [HowK-BACKiT, adj. Having the bent, manner, ibid.] hump-backed, ibid.] used [HowDLiN',pari. pr. Walking heavily; [To HOWK-CHOWK, v. n. To make a also an adj., ibid.] noise as if poking in deep mud, Banffs.; howk-chowkiri used also as an HOWDOYE, s. A sycophant, Roxb. V. part. pr. , s., HOUDEE. a noise as of poking in deep mud, ibid.] HOWLLIS HALD. "A ruin; an owl's HOW-DUMB-DEAD of the nicht. The habitation," Pink. middle of the night, when silence reigns, Schir, lat it neir in towne be tald, Ayrs. That I sould be ane howllis hold. " Maitland 112. What's the matter wi' ye ? That's no a guid bed Dunbar, Poems, p. for a sick body, in the how-dumb-dead o' a caul' ha'rst I see no other sense the phrase can bear. V. HALD. night." Blackw. Mag., Nov. 1820, p. 202. V. How O' THE NICHT. HOWM, s. 1. The level low ground on the banks of a river or stream, S. HOWE, interj. A call, S. and E. ho. To he callis Howe ! 2. small Shetl. V. HOLME. thaym ; Stand, ying men, A very island, Doug. Virgil, 244, 10. s. A little V. HOOMET. Dan. hoi, hoo, Fr. ho. Lat. eho, id. HOWMET, cap. HOW [629] HOY

adv. As soon as. HOWNABE, HOWANABEE, conj. Howbeit, HOWSONE, HOWSOON, however, Loth., Roxb. "Quhilk conspiratioune the said James Dowglace, " howsone he come to the castell of Tamptalloune, ex- Ye're surely some silly skcmp of a fallow, to draw ponit & finalie endit with Archibald sumtyme erle of out your sword on a puir auld woman. Dinna think, and George Dowglace his broder germane, howanabee, that I care for outher you or it." Brownie Anguiss, alswa rabellis to his grace," &c. Acts Mary, 1542, Ed. of Bodsbeck, i. 110. 1814, p. 423.* Perhaps corr. from wlien a' be, q. when all shall be, " Howsoon James Grant came to Edinburgh, he was take place, or happen. V. WHEN A' BE. admired and looked upon as a man of great vassalage ; he is received and warded in the castle of Edinburgh, s. This seems to have been a " HOWPHYN, and his six men were all hanged to the death. Spald- to- term of endearment used by a mother ing, i. 14. wards her to E. infant, equivalent darling. HOWSTRIE, s. Soft, bad, nasty food. V. My new spaiiul howphyn frae the souk, HOUSTRIE. And all the blythnes of my bouk. Evergreen, ii. 19. HOWTHER, s. A tousing, Loth., Lanarks. is from C. B. hoffdyn, a friend, one who beloved ;

to love : corre- to hof, dear, beloved, hoffi, hoyw, beautiful, [To HOWTHER, v. a. and n. 1. To push, sponding to the Fr. term of endearment, mujnon. jostle in a rude manner, Banffs. 2. To as one a bur- HOWRIS, s. pi. Whores. stagger carrying heavy den, ibid. "Item, that it be lauchfull to na wemene to weir abone thair estait howris." In "This act except marg. 3. To walk with difficulty, or in a hobbling is verray gude." Articlis to be presentit in Parlia- manner, ibid.] ment, Acts VI., 1567, App. Ed. 1814, p. 40. This was certainly a very singular plan for suppress- [HOWTHERIN, HOWTHIRIN', part. pr. Used in that were ing superfluity dress ; all, who chargeable also as a . and as an adj. in each of the with dressing above their rank, were to be considered senses of the as avowing infamous means for supporting their extra- .] The devisers and of this had vagance. approvers plan to wax and not adverted to the obvious solecism of granting a HOWTIE, adj. Apt angry virtual toleration to a mode of living expressly con- sulky, Clydes. demned other laws. by I need scarcely say that this is merely a provincial The with that of A.-S. hor, orthography nearly agrees pronunciation of E. haughty. Alem. huor, huar, Dan. /tore, Belg. hoere, Su.-G. hora, Isl. hoera, id. HOWTILIE, adv. In an angry and sulky man- ner, ib. PIOW'S A' ? HOWTINESS, s. Anger and sulkiness com- "How's a'? a common salutation." Gall. Encycl. bined, ib. How's A' wi' YE? A common mode of making HOWTOWDY, *. A young hen, one that inquiry as to one's health, S. " has never laid, S. Wha should come in but our neebpr, Nanny ? ' certies, but the Scotch blude was up, and my How's a' wi' ye, Nanny?' said I." Petticoat Tales, "My gentleman tell't the King, that he wadna gie a gude ii. 140; "How is all with you ?" Scotch howtowdie for a' the puir like gear in his poultry Petticoat Tales, ii. 163. V. HENWIFE, sense 2. HOWSA, adv. Although. yard." This in S. properly denotes an overgrown chicken; for how sa Bot, qulioyne deyt thar, the term is not applied to a hen. I have therefore Eebutyt fouuly thai war ; erred in making Howtowdie synon. with Kirark. And raid thair gait, with weill mar sohame Be full fer than thai come fra hame. " HOW-WECHTS, s. pi. Circular imple- Harbour, xii. 83, MS. ments of stretched on a hoop, Howsoever is used by Shakesp. in the same sense. sheep-skin, V. Johns. Diet., although I have not observed any used about barns and mills to lift grain and similar in A.-S. phraseology such things with;" Gall. Encycl. V. WECHT. HOW-SHEEP, interj. A call given by a Gl. shepherd to his dog to incite him to pursue HOWYN, j9a. "Baptized," Wynt. Than at the of that cas sheep, Lanarks. fyrst Upp. Brettane was The Kyng of howyn ; Hou is with v. The definition synon. Hoy, q. given And all the barnage of his land Isl. seems to that of ho-a, by Verelius, preferable of Than baptyst wes, and welle trowand. article G. Andr., quoted under that ; Vocem clamore Wyntown, v. 8. 26. et cantu intendere ut solent bubulci, se et gregem eo See also, v. 46. oblectantes ; q. "to hoy the sheep." HOY, s. Used in the same sense with E. hue, a a HOWSOMEVER, adv. Howsoever, S. in Hue and cry ; also, shout, cry. " " Howsomevfr, no to enlarge on such points of philo- He sould raise a hoy and cry to the narrest townis sonld and manifest sophical controversy," &c. The Steam-Boat, p. 299. beside the Kingis forest, and pass Whether this be a corr. of the E. word seems uncer- the samin to the Kings Schireffis." Leg. Forest. Bal- sense 2. tain. But Su.-G. torn signifies so. four's Pract., p. 140. V. the v. ; also HOYES, HOY [630] HUB

of the land or HOY, interj. An exclamation expressive of a the creditour with schout, and hoyes, call may follow him." 2 Stat. Rob. I., c. 12. to listen, to stop, to approach, or to 20, In the latter sense it is allied to Fr. huer. V. Hoy. turn back, S. s. v. "Baldie man ! hoy Baldie ! gae wa' an' clod on a [HOYN, Delay, cessation, Barbour, creel fu' o' ruh-heds on the Saint ii. Skeat's Ed. In ingle." Patrick, 602, Edin. MS., hone, q. v.] 313. HOYNED, part. pa. To v. a. 1. To to incite a " HOY, urge on, ; Taken away from Isobell Campbell, daughter to term Patrick of generally used with respect to dogs, S. umquhile Campbell Knap, a petticoat, half silk half worsett. Item, 1 ell round stuff." They hoy't out Will, wi' sair advice. hoyned Depred. on the Clan 80. Burns, iii. 136. Campbell, p. " 2. s. The moan of the owl in the To chase or drive away, in consequence of HUAM, warm of summer this incitation, or by means of and days ;" Gall. Encycl. hooting " As the author adds that it continues with hallooing. repeating a huam it be a word formed from and hound moaning air, ;" may Ladyes lairds, gar your dogs, the sound. C. B. And the hw, however, signifies a hoot, hwa, hoy queins away. to hoot ; and hwan, an owl, a hooter. Maitland Poems, p. 189. Mr. Pinkerton renders it hoot. [To HUB, v. a. To blame or hold guilty of Bot quhen the Excellence King's a crime, Shetl.] Did knaw my falset and offence, And pridefull my presumptioun ; held I na [HuBBiT, part. pa. Blamed, guilty, gat vther recompence, Bot hoyit and houndit of the toun. ibid.] Lyndsay's Warkis, 1592, p. 303. [HUBBIE, s. A short jacket worn by [3. To shout, to call loudly to a person at a women, when engaged in household work, distance. In this sense the prep, to or till Orkn.] " is generally added, as till 'm to Hoy keep HUBBIE, s. A dull, stupid, slovenly fellow, aff the sawn grun."] Eoxb.

1 from the same with [HOYIN , part. pr. Shouting, bawling. Used Perhaps origin Hobby-tobby, also as Belg. hobb-en, to moil or toil. a s., S.] This is evidently Fr. hestaudeau, hustaudeau, hutau- Fr. hu-er, huy-er, to hoot at, to shout after, to raise ' ' a cock chick deaii, great ; and sometimes any big or the hue and Isl. to the or to cry. ho-a, gather flocks, well-grown pullet ;" Cotgr. drive them : Voce incondita, greges convocare, vel G. 118. the I s. agere ; Andr., p. By way, may mention HUBBILSCHOW, HOBBLESHOW, A a curious ' ' specimen of etymology. These woords, hubbub, a tumult, a confused noise. It Heu, and Crie, the first a Latine the being woord, the idea of a other a French woord, are auncient woordes of vse in suggests multitude running the Lawes of this et realme, verba enim mint dolentis, and crowding together in a tumultuous are alwaies of they woordes weeping and : lamenting manner, (without necessarily that As in the 10 chapter of Tobias, when old Tobias and implying there is to see some his wife saw that their sonne returned not againe, fear- any broil,) as, object that there had chaunced some sodaine misfortune that excites ing curiosity ; hubbleshue, S. vnto him, the woman in her sodaine vttered griefe Hiry, hary, hubbilschow, these woordes, lieu mi ; wo Heu, me, fill Alas, alas, Se ye not quha is cum now, is me &c. And to that my sonne, according sense, Bot yit wait I nevir how, these alwaies woordes have been in vse in this land, so With the quhirle-wind ? that when any man hath receiued any sodain hurt or A sargeand out of Soudoun land, harme, they haue vsed presently to follow and pur- A gyane strang for to stand. st. sue the offenders with Heu and Crie, that is, with a Bannatyne Poems, p. 173, 1. sorrowful and lamentable crie, for helpe to take such That gars me think this hobleshew, that's past, Will offenders." Manwood's Forrest Lawes, Fol. 126, a. end in naithing but a joke at last. Ramsay's Poems, ii. 172. s. 1. A term used in Yon hobbleshow is like some stour to raise HOYES, public pro- ; What think o't ? as we use to clamations, attention. It is thrice ye for, say, calling The web seems now all to be made of wae. S. E. Fr. hear Jioss's repeated, Oyes, ; oyez, ye. llelenore, p. 89. Teut. Skene thus defines L. B. huesium. hobbel-en, inglomerare ; hobbelen, tobbelen, " tumultuare ; tumultuarie Ane hoyes, or crie vsed in proclamations, quhairby hobbel-tobbel, hobbet-sobbel, ; acervatim Kilian. The last ane officiar of armes, or messenger dois conveene the permiste, ; syllable may be Teut. or from videre people, and foir-warnis them to heare him." Verb. scftowe, spectaculum, schouw-en, ; Sign. vo. Huesium. q. a crowd assembled to see something that excites attention. Schouio-en also signifies to fly, whence E. 2. It is also used by Skene, although perhaps eschew. A. Bor. "hubbleshew, a riotous assembly ;" Grose. improperly, as equivalent to hue, in the s. a phrase hue and cry. HUBBLE, An uproar, tumult, South ' ' of Gif the debtour or anie on his part corns to the and West S. the are driven and violent- quhare poynds away ; The sodger too, for a' his troubles, Slaceand be force takes and caries the Lord e, them away ; His hungry wames, an' bludy hubbies, HUC [031] HUD

His agues, rheumatisms, cramps, served, and quite at hand when there is use Received in plashy winter-camps, for Dumfr. This is sometimes blest reward ! at last he gains it, pron. His sov'reign's thanks for a his pains. Hod. TannahUl's Poems, p. 103, 104. "There was the chair she used to sit on, there was The ragabash were ordered back, the cutty still on the hud, wi' the embers of the And then began the hubble ; lying " last blast she drew in the throat o't. For cudgells now war seen to bounce sticking All' sculls and bloody noses. Blackw. Mag., Nov. 1820, p. 203. V. HUBBILSCHOW. Oall. Encyd., p. 267. 3. The flat plate which covers the side of a a dimin. from HUCHOUN. Apparently grate, Dumfr. Hugh. Act. Dom. Cone., p. 2, col. 2. Teut. hoeJ-en, huyd-en, hued-en, custodire, tueri, protegere, as guarding the fire. To HUCK, . n. Perhaps, to grudge, to 4. The seat opposite to the fire on a black- hesitate as in a bargain, q. to play the huckster. smith's hearth, Teviotd. " O neuer hucketh to great Jehovah, who giue mercie, 5. A portion of a wall built with single let him finde more and more that thy bowels, stones, or with stones which from side ouerflowing with mercie, are readie to receiue him." go to Gall. Sneck. Z. Boyd's Last Battell, p. 1172. side, ; synon. allied to Isl. celeriter Perhaps hwecke, decipio ; "He invented also snecks or hiidds, i.e., spaces subtraho or to inconstantio. " ; hwik, built single at short intervals. Agr. Surv. Gall., p. 86. V. SNECK. [To HUCKFAIL, v. a. To fancy or prefer HUD-NOOK, s. The corner beside the grate, any person or thing, Shetl.] So. of S. s. The in which ashes are HUCKIE, pit Nae mair we by the biel hud-nook, held under the Renfrews. Sit hale owre a fire, ; synon. fore-sippers book, to wi' Aisshole. Strivin' eaten, tentie look, Ilk bonuy line. Teut. T. Scott's 316. hoeck, angulus ; q. the corner in which the Poems, p. ashes are retained. HUD-STANE, s. 1. A flag-stone set on edge as a back to the fire on a HUCKIE-BUCKIE, s. A play of children, cottage hearth, Loth. V. HUNKERS. Dumfr., Teviotd. 2. A stone in a Gall. HUD, . A term used by masons, for denot- employed building hud, "One hudd-stone will do at the but the more ing the trough employed for carrying their grass ; the better. When a double between the hudds mortar, Loth, dyke mare, synon. is built as high as the first hudd-stone, a stone suffici- is so that one half of it cover the To HUD, v. a. Expl. "to hoard." ently long placed may hudd, and the other half the double dyke." Agr. Ane cryis, Gar me for call. pay my Surv. Gall., p. 86. How dar this dastard hud our geir? St. Ley. Bp. Andrew, p. 324. [HUDDACK, s. A knot in a fishing line V. HOD, HODE. " two Gl. hide. fastening parts together, Hoard," ; perhaps rather Shetl.] HUDDERIN, HUDERON, part. adj. 1. HUD, s. 1. The back of a fire-place in the Slovenly. It is applied to a wo- houses of the peasantry, made of stone and generally man who is lusty and flabby in her person, clay, built somewhat like a Dumfr., seat, or wears her Ettr. For. clothes loosely and awkwardly. hutherin. This is Ang. pron. also called the Cat-httd. The reason assigned the for this name is "A is worth a fold-ful of to a by peasantry different from what morning-sleep sheep " had occurred to me this huderon, duderon Daw ;" S. Prov. p. 14, a ; being commonly occupied as Kelly, a seat by the cat, for which reason it is said to be also dirty, lazy drab," N. called the Cat-slane. V. CA.T-HUD. 2. hideous, Aberd. "Hood, the back of the fire, North ;" Grose. Ugly, O. E. " 'd hudde must certainly be viewed aa originally My side happen to be newmost, an' the great the same, although used in an oblique sense, as denot- hudderen carlen was riding hockerty-cockerty upon " my ing what covers the fire during night. Repofocilium, shoulders ." Journal from London, p. 3. id est, quod tcgit ignem in nocte, (a hudde or a Ortus 3. ill-filled, sterne.)" Vocab. The same Lat. word is given Empty, Orkney. in Prompt. Parv. as the version of other two 0. E. In the first sense, which seems the proper one, it words. "Kymhjn, Herthstok. Repofocilium." may be allied to Teut. huyder-en, to swell in the udder, to have the udder distended, aa a cow near calving. 2. A small enclosure at the side of the fire, But perhaps it is merely a part, from the . n. Howder, v. V. HCTHEEIN. formed by means of two stones set erect, q. with one laid across as a cover, in which a HUDDERIN, s. Meat condemned as unwhole- or other small is Aberd. tobacco-pipe, any object, some, ; apparently the same with laid in up, order to its being properly pre- Hudderone. HUD [632] HUD

HuDDEOUN, s. Belly-huddroun. HUDDY CRAW, HODDIE, *. The carrion Mony sweir bumbard belly-huddroun, crow, S. B. hoddy craw, S. A. huddit crau, Mony slute daw, and slepy duddroun, S., Corvus the Him servit ay with sounyie. Compl. corone, Linn., i.e., Dunbar, Bannatyne Poems, p. 29, st. 7. hooded crow. "The word huddroun is still used for a dis- " slovenly The huddit crauis eryit, varrok, varrok." P. 60. Lord 237. " orderly person ;" Hailes, Note, p. There are also carrion crows (hoddies, as they are called here), and hawks, but not very numerous. P. s. heifer HUDDEEONE, A young ; Huth- Longforgan, Perths. Statist. Ace., xix. 498. are down like hoodie-craws erin, Ang., Loth. "They sitting yonder in a " mist ; but d'ye think you'll help them wi' skirling The kingis Maiestie vnderstanding the greit that gate like an auld skart before a flow o' weather?" hurt that his hienes subiectis dalie sustenis throw the Antiquary, i. 172. transporting and carreing furth of the realme off the "Carion, or grey-crows, called hoodi-craws ; for calf skynnis, hudderonis, and kid skynnis, &c., dis- when they get old, they become white in colour all but chargis all and sindrie merohandis off all transport- " the feathers of the head ; these keen black, and look ing off the saidis calf skynnis, hudderonis, &c. Acts as if the bird had on a cowl or hood." Gall. Encycl. Ja. VI., 1592, Ed. 1814, p. 579. Huddrounes, Skene and Murray. V. HUTHEBIN, and HUDKON. HUDDY-DROCH, *. A squat, waddling Instead of the etymon there given, perhaps it may be viewed as a corr. of A.-S. hruther, bos, jumentum, person, Clydes. hryther, id., iung hruther, juvenculus, Lye; geong This is apparently formed from Houd, v., to wriggle, a Somner. liryther, juvencula, young heifer, and droch, a dwarf. C. B. hwyad signifies a duck. Shall we view this as the of Houd, v. ? Eichards taw- origin HUDDEY, adj. "Slovenly, disorderly, renders E. waddle, v., by C. B. fel hwyad. dry," S. O., Gl. Sibb. This is the same [HUDEIN, part. adj. Chiding, scolding, with Hudderin, q. v. Shetl.] HUDDS, s. [HTJDERON. V. HUDDERIN.] "There is a species of clay, which the smiths use for their bellows in their and of which fixing furnaces, s. 1. A hoard, a secret deposit, the make what to [HUDGE, country people they call, Hudds, Banffs. V. HOWD. set in their chimnies behind their fires, which they say,

does not or with the heat ; and which, calcine, split 2. secret after it has stood the fire for years, and become hard Suppressed talking, whispering, as a stone, upon being exposed to the common air for ibid.] some time, it turns soft, and may be wrought and v. a. 1. to fashioned with the hand as before." P. Moffat, Statist. [To HUDGE, To amass, hoard, Ace., ii. 289, 290. ibid.

HUDDUM, HUDDONE, s. A kind of whale. 2. To speak in secret, as in the case of a Bot hir hynd partis ar als grete wele nere As bene the hidduous huddum, or ane quhale. Doug. Virgil, 82, 6. [HUDGEIN, s. A suppressed speaking, as of The remanent straucht like ane fyschis tale, a fama, Banffs.] In similitude of huddone or ane quhale. Ibid., 322, 9. s. as [HUDGE-MUDGE, Same Hudge, s., Pislrix, Virg. also, pistris ; said to be a whale of ibid but stronger, ] great length, which cuts the water as he goes. The Danes call a totoisA-coloured hwid whale, fisk. [To HUDGE-MUDGE, v. n. 1. To whisper in But perhaps huddone may rather be the same kind of ibid.; the is also used as a s. whale which Verel. calls hyding-ur, which, he says, is secret, part.pr. He mentions called hross- twenty yards long. another, 2. To scheme or in et plot secret, ibid.] valur, cetus praelongus, saevus ferox ; literally, the horse of the deep. Ind., p. 124. The origin as- HUDGE-MUDGE, adj. In a secret, clandestine by some writers to the term whale, deserves to signed to those who be mentioned. As in Germ, it is called walftsche, it way; applied whisper together, been that the the fish of the has supposed meaning is, or do any thing secretly, S. B. ; A.-S. wael, Alem. wala, Germ, wal, abyss signifying, Bat fat use will they be to him, Hence S. a a whirl- abyssua. wall, wave, weal, wallee, Wha in hudge mudge wi' wiles, pool. Without a gully in his hand, The smeerless fae beguiles ? HUDDUN, adj. Poems in the Buchan Dialect, p. 11. A huddun hynd came wi' his pattle, This is radically the same with E. hngger-mugger, As he'd been at the Dr. after pleugh secrecy ; concerning which Johns., giving Said there was nane in a' the battle, several etymons, none of which are satisfactory, con- That bend brulyied aneugh. fesses that he cannot determine the origin. Christmas Ed. 1805. Ba'ing, The basis of this compound term is certainly Su.-G. Leg. huddron, ragged, ill-dress'd. miitgy, secretly, which Ihre inclines to deduce from This seems the same with E. hoiden, which Johns, Germ, muck-en, to mutter, to speak low. The first derives from C. B. foemina levioris Se- allied to hoeden, famae ; syllable may be to hog-a, hug-a, to meditate, renius from Isl. a so he heide, woman, denominated, apply the mind to any object, from hog, hug, mens ; says, from a certain ornament worn by females. V. to which 0. Teut. huggh-en, observare, considerare, HUDDERIN, adj. corresponds. Hudge-mudge may thus denote a secret HUD [633] HUG

Teut. deliberation or olwcrvation. huggher signifies IIUFFLE-BUFFS, . pi. Old clothes, observator, explorator, Hugger-mugger might there- Roxb. of fore originally denote a secret spy of the actions others. This, I suspect, is a cant term. Fancy, however, find an in Ihre views E. smuggle as probably derived from might origin A.-S. lutfd, a hovel, or small and Alem. to S. Su.-G. mhigg, s being prefixed, which is common in house, buff-en, beat, bvf; q. worn out " ' Su.-G. Isl. by being tossed about the house. Goth. Hence perhaps primarily smyg-a, through sinitt

Thairfoir lament sen he is gone, s. without feet, HUGGERS, pi. Stockings That huikit nathing for^thy helth. Loth. V. HOGERS. Q. that made no account of any thing, if subservient to thy welfare. HUGGERT, adj. Clothed in or stock- hogers, Teut. huggh-en, observare, considerare ; Su.-G. without Renfr. in ings feet, hug-a, hog-a, animo habere, meditari ; Alem. hug-en, id. A.-S. hog-an, curare. Su.-G. hog, hug, the mind, Herdies sing wi' huggert taes, is the root. An' wanton lams are dancin". evidently A. Wilson's 219. Poems, 1790, p. s. articles V. HOQERT. HUIK-WAIR, Perhaps, pertain- ing to the labour of the harvest field, q. [HUGGIE, 8 . A tap or blow, Shetl.; Dan. hook-ware. hug, id.] " "Tar, pik, hemp, irn, & huik-wair. "Topping of irn & huik-wair." Aberd. A. To v. n. To Lanarks. wax, tar, pik, Reg., 1541, HUGHYAL, hobble, V. 17.

Su.-G. hwick-a, vaoillare ; Isl. Jiaekia, crutches. Or did Ettr. For. from E. hough, q. to bow it too much in motion. HUILD, pret. Held, hold,

s. s. small vessel for oil HUGSTER, HUGSTAIK, A huckster, [HUILK, A holding ; Isl. a hulk of an old tub Dan. Aberd. Reg., V. 16. hylki, ; hylke, a HUGTOUN, HOGTOUNE, s. A cassock or reservoir.] short without sleeves acton or s. ''a jacket ; [the HUISK, Expl. lumpish, unwieldy, gambeson, which was stuffed and quilted, dirty, dumpie woman," Teviotd. and worn under the hauberk. V. Gl. Accts. Dan. hoewisk denotes a bottle of hay. Perhaps q. a mere husk ; Teut. huysken, id. Lord H. Treasurer, Vol. I., Dickson.] Fr. O. Fr. haucton. hocqueton, HOIST, a. 1. A heap, Upp. Clydes. ane of sad velvott, "Item, hugtoun cramasy pas- This seems to be one of the vestiges of the old Cum- mentit with ane braid pasmont all our of gold and brian C. B. kingdom. hwys, a draught, a load ; Jiwys- with ane in the with blak silver, buttpun breist, lynit aw, to heap together. taffateis." Inventories, A. 1542, p. 81. 2. An overgrown and clumsy person, ibid. HUI, HUUY, interj. Begone, equivalent to HUIT, Paused, the same with Lat. apage, Aberd. V. HOY, v. pret. stopped; Hoved. V. HOVE, How, v. Isl. hu-a is used in the same sense with ho-a, as huit and he denoting the cry of shepherds. He houerit quhill midmorne and mair, Behaldand the hie hillis and passage sa plane. s. or Shetl. B. a. [HUIA, A height hill, V. Rauf Goilyear, iiij. HUYA.] To HUKE. V. BOLYN. s. A small rick of Banffs. HUICK, corn, HUKEBANE, s. The huckle-bone, S. B. handles hurklis with hukebanes harsh HUIFIS, 2 p. indie, v. Tarriest. Thy and haw. Dunbar, Evergreen, ii. 57, st. 17. Thow hwifis on thir holtis, and haldis me heir from Su.-G. Isl. huk-a, inclinare se. Quhil half the haill day may the bight haue. Perhaps " A. Bor. the huckle-bone or ;" Grose. Rauf Coilyear, C. 1, a. huke, hip V. HUIT. In Edinburgh, I am informed, by huke-bane fleshers always understand the haunch-bone. To HUIK, v. a. To take care of, to consider, Ihre, under Huk-a, conquiniscere, desidere (S. to It is believed that the have to regard. hunker), says ; English hence given the name of huckle-bone to the coxa, because The author, as far as I have observed, who only it is by means of this that we let down the lower part uses this is term, Montgomerie ; although cognates of the body. occur in all the Northern dialects. The same idea is thrown out by Seren. vo. Hough. Fule haist ay, almaist ay, Owre-sails the sicht of sum, HULBIE, s. Any object that is clumsy; as, Quha huiks not, nor luiks not a hulbie a stane, a stone ; Quhat afterward may come. of large, unweildy st. 30. a hulbie a &c. Lanarks. Cherrie and Sloe, of house, man, ; non curant sera Bum quid reportet In the latter sense, it might be traced to Dan. hule, Lat. Vers. Vespera a cavern, or Isl. holt, a tumulus, and by, a habitation. Promitting, unwitting, Your hechts you uevir huiked. HULDIE, . A night-cap, Gall. Ibid., st. 81. " Nearly allied to Isl. hul, a veil, a covering, from i.e., you never regarded your promises." hel-a, hoel-ia, velare, the imperfect of which is hulde ; It also occurs in his MS. Su.-G. hotl-ja, Moes-G. hul-jan, id. C. B. hul-iawalso How sho suld hurt or help, sho nevir huiks, signifies to cover, and hul, a cover. Luk as it lyks, sho laughis and nevir luiks, Bot wavers lyk the weddercok in wind. HULE, s. A mischievous fellow; expl. by iii. " Chrcm. S. P., 499. some, one who does mischief for the sake It seems to be used in a similar sense Davidsone by of fun." A hule the a rakish in his Schort Diecurs of the Estaitis on the death of J. among lasses, Roxb. Knox. spark ; V. HEWL. H r L [636] HUL

C. B. chwilgi, a to bustle Isl. et busy body; chwyl-aw, hialldr, parva pluvia gelida ; G. Andr. about; chwiwiawl, Haldorson frisky. expl. it, Kingor infrequena tenuissimus ; whence hialldr-a, ningere. There is certainly no great s, 1. IIULE, A pod or covering of any thing, transition from the ancient Gothio use of the term, in to a S. reference to slight snow, to that of raw, damp, and cold commonly applied pulse ; husk, weather. In the same language, hielug-r signifies both "The husk or integument of any thing; as the hull and frosty dewy, pruinosus; roscidus ; from hiela, of a nut covers the shell. Scottish." Johns. Hule, pruina. Diet. The S. word is sounded much softer than the E., the HULLERIE, adj. 1. Erect, bristled up; as, u like Gr. . "a hullerie hen," a hen with its feathers 2. the membrane which covers the Metaph., standing on end, Roxb. head of a child, Fife. How, synon. Sw. hullhaer denotes "soft hair on the " downy body, Isl. 3. pile ; Wideg. hyller, however, signifies, Emmet, A hollow, unprincipled fellow, ibid. visui se praeoet eminus ; G. Andr.

[To HULE, v. a. To take from the pod; as, 2. Confused, to the " discomposed; applied to hule peas," Clydes. Shule is also used head after hard drinking, ibid. in the same sense.] 3. Slovenly, Ettr. For. [IIuLE AND HULE-BAND. Leaving nothing 4. Friable, crumbling, ibid. behind; as, hule and hule-band," "He'sgane As it seem allied to the he has removed with denoting confusion, might everything belonging first word in the Su.-G. alliterative phrase, Huller om to him, Butter, in a very confused state. Vox factitia ad indic- Shetl.j andam summara rerum confusionem ; Ihre. Dan. hut- tert " [HULGIE, adj. Roomy, convenient, Shetl.] og bultert, topsy-turvy, upside down ;" Wolff.

*. HULGIE, HCLGY, adj. Having a hump, HULLIE-BULLIE, HULLIE-BULLOO, A tumultuous S. I >. noise. V. HILLIE-BILLOO. HULGIE-BACK,HULGY-BACK,. 1. "Ahump- BULLION, s. 1. A sloven, Fife. Hullen is used in Dumfr. as a back ;" ibid., Gl. Ross. contemptuous designa- most in the Did ye gie'r the mou', tion, probably same sense. wi' a Says aunty, neist, mony scrape and bow ; 2. inferior Syne laid your arm athwart her hulgy back t An servant, employed to work any Ross's Hdenore, p. 37. orra work, Aberd. V. HALLION, of which 2. this A humpbacked person, ibid. seems merely a variety. My bairn will now get leave to lift his head, s. And of a worldly hulgy-tack get free, BULLION, Wealth, goods, property, That dad designed his wedded wife to be. Aberd. Ibid., p. 78. The half o' my hullian I'll gie to my dear. Old HULGIE-BACKED, adj. Humpbacked, S. B. Song. I that this word had An odder cou'd not come in his suspect originally denoted con- hag way ; cealed wealth S. as allied to An ugly hulgie-backed, cankered wasp, (like pose), Isl. hulinn, And like to die for breath at ilka gasp. tectus, occultus, hilla, abacus, repositorium ; Moes-G. Alem. Ross's tielenore, p. 35. hul-jan, hnl-en, Su.-G. hoel-ja, tegere, celare. This v. must be ancient, and has been Su.-G. hulkin, convexus, hulka vt, excavare, hoik, vas very very gener- ally diffused. For C. B. hul-iaw, to cpnvexum. The phrase used in E., although not men- signifies cover, a coverlet. tioned by Johns., seems synon. A hulch in the back. hulyn, V. Seren. in vo. s. 1. [HULSTER, A push, a lift, Banffs. s. V. under [HULINESS, HULY.] 2. A big ungainly person, ibid.] v. n. To [To HULK, go about in a lazy, v. a. and n. 1 . To a burden idle manner, to be in worth- [HULSTER, carry engaged mean, with or in an awkward less work, Banifs. difficulty manner, Clydes., HuUciri, part. ibid. used also as a s. and as an pr., adj. ; in the last sense it 2. To walk with a implies, mean, skulking, and heavy, clumsy step, ibid.] The about is fre- bad-tempered. prep, [HuLSTERiN, part. pr. Used in both senses quently added to the or intensify meaning, of the v. as a s. and as an adj., ibid. The to imply habit, natural inclination, &c.] prep, about is often added to intensify the or to HULLCOCK, s. The smooth hound, a fish; meaning imply habit, &c.] Squalus Orkn. galeus, [HULSTER, s. A shapeless block of stone, Shetl. Isl. a and HULLERIE, adj. Raw, damp, and cold; holt, stony place, etor, Gl. Orkn. and applied to the state of the great. Shetl.] " atmosphere ; as, That's a hullerie day," Roxb. HULTERCORN. V. SHILLING. HtTL [636] |HUM

HULY, HOOLIK, adj. Slow, moderate, S. To HUM or HAW. To dally or trifle with heelie, Aberd. one about any business, by indefinite and Nane vthir at sic ane wyse Tiirnus, nede, unintelligible language. Steppis abak with htdy pays ful stil. " it otherwise than on Doug. Virgil, 307, 6, I hope never to look upon

an Erastian ; nor to be hum'd or haw'd with, The same word is used adverbially in conjunction synagogue I know not out of this M'Ward's with fare, fair, or fairly. what, persuasion." 20. Huly and fair vnto the coist I swam. Contendings, p. Dr. Johnson has both these words as E,, on Ibid., 175, 51. given the of S. Butler and L'Estrange ; and explain- Paulatim, Virg. authority ed both with accuracy. I take notice of the phrase adv. HOOLIE, Cautiously. merely to remark, that it is here used in a passive have met with no in E. "Hooly, tenderly; North," Gl. Grose, is undoubtedly form, of which I example the same word. Softly and fair is used in O. E. in a v. n. To to darken in similar signification. [To HUM, grow dark, and men ride far Fer- "Hooly fairly journies ;" the evening, Shetl. Isl. hum, twilight.] guson's S. Prov., p. 13. is kittle and Yet love unruly. HUMIN, s. Twilight, Shet.; synon. Gloamin,S. And shou'd move tentily and hooly. G. Ramsay's Poems, ii. 887. Isl. hum, crepusculum, hum-ar, advesperacit ; iter incertum. Andr., p. 126. Humott signifies, HULINESS, s. Tardiness, Lanarks. the from hum and att, a quarter ; denoting uncertainty The trauchl't stag i' the wan waves lap, of the direction because of the darkness. Humamal, But holiness or hune. causa obscura. Marmaiden of Clyde, Edin. Mag., May, 1820. The most probable etymon mentioned by Rudd. is HUMANITY, s. A term, in the academical hove, to stay, to delay. Ho, delay, referred to by to the phraseology of S., appropriated study Sibb., is virtually the same. of the Latin The class in Uni- But it is doubtful if hooly primarily signifies slow. language. is called It seems more closely to correspond to soft, moderate, versities, in which this is taught, as hooly tenderly, Northumb. ; and may be signifies the Humanity Class, and the teacher, the allied to Isl. hoglifr, tranquil, hoglifi, tranquility, Verel. ; or Su.-G. hofiig, moderate, hofligen, moderately, from hof, Professor of Humanity. modus, decentia. a madur, vir moderatus. Seren. " Hof In the year 1637, it appears, that a master or pro, Ho as an obsolete E. to Sw. gives word, corresponding fessor humaniorum literarum, commonlycalled^>ro/e?or measure, moderation. The Swedes have a Prov. hof, of humanity, had been founded." Univers. Glasgow- our ami fairly ; lolig phrase, nearly resembling hooly Statist. Ace., xxi. 25. och man Fair and far ; Seren. togllrj trifs, softly goes The term had been used in this sense at least as early I that as Su.-G. il-a to Ihre may add, signifies delay, as the time of the Reformation. that it is the same with hwil-a, to supposes originally "That few sciences, and speciallie thay that ar rest old Goth, words found either with, or ; being maist necessare, ar in ane pairt not teicheit within the without, the aspirate. said citie [Sanctandros], to the great detriment of the and economical. haillliegis of this realme, their childrene posteritie. [HULYIE, adj. Lasting, Shetl.] That the rentis and fundatiounis of the saidis Col- a foolish trick often be to sic men of knawlege and s. A sham, ; legeis mycht employit HUM, hes the and humanilie for to a told in a S. vnderstanding quha toungis applied story jest, instructioun of the youth," &c. Acts Mary, 1563, Ed. Su.-G. hum, an uncertain rumour, the origin of 1814, p. 544. which is unknown ; also, a slight suspicion. The Lat. designation is as above, Literae Jiumaniores, has been used as birds do their from which the Fr. borrowed, although To HUM, v, n. To feed, on with greater latitude than ours. Au college, appelle a nurse is said to young by billing. Thus les lettres humaines, litterae humaniores, 1'etude des la la Rhetor- /mm to her child, when she gives it food langues Grecque et Latine, Grammaire, et de et from her mouth a neither consis- ique, la Poesie, 1'intelligence Poetes, Orateurs, ; custom, Historiens. Diet. Trev. tent with cleanliness, nor, it is most probable, with the health of the child. To HUMBLE Bear. V. HUMMEL, v. This is expl. Lanarks., "to chew food for infants." s. A fit of bad It might seem to have some affinity to Isl. hwom-a, [HUMCH, humour, Banffs.] it not that glutire, abligurire, and hwoma, gula ; were be in a the food is not swallowed, but only masticated. [To HUMCH, v. n. To sulky humour, also as a s. ibid.; part. pr. humchin, used HUMS, s. pi. "Mouthfuls of chewed matter ;" and as an Gall. Encycl. adj^\ a s. S. B. HUM, s. The milt of a cod-fish, used as HUMDRUM, Dejection, does his and out Lindy comes ; dish, and esteemed a great delicacy, Angus. Ralph bidden, His father man, thir humdrums, Sewel. says, Lay by, Belg. horn, "the milt, or soft roe of fish ;" And look na mair like Watty to the worm. This may perhaps be allied to Isl. homn-a, intumescere. Moss's Helenore, p. 91.

is used in E. Johns, derives it from hum HUM, adj. Out of humour, sullen, Aberd. The adj. and drone. Seren., with more propriety, from hum, Saw e'er a tear rin frae e'e ? ye my and Goth, Isl. imia, vocem edere ; drom-a, Or wantin plaid, or bonnet, leukit hum I querulam et lente Tarras's Poems, p. 115. tarde gradi. HUM [637] II IM

Isl. ym-a, gemere, susurrare. E. humblt-bee, tlio name HUM-DUDGEON, . A complaint without given to the wild buzzing bee, although distinguished sufficient Liddesdale Molli- reason, ; synon. by an improper orthography, has evidently the game grub, Molligrant. ''Needless noise, much origin. to do ;" Gl. Antiquary. To HUMMEL, HUMMIL, HUMMLE, v. a. To I would never be a "Hout, tout, man, making hummil bear, to separate the grain of barley hum-dud/jeon about a scart on the Guy Man- pow." from the S. B. nering, ii. 33. beards, tae from hum, a and The groff gudeman began grnnimil ; Perhaps pretence, dudgeon, displea- " sure. Thair's uiuck tae lead, thair s bear tae hummil." MS. Poem. s. " [HUM-DURGON, A big, stupid person When our captain came near to us, I thought I of an evil should hae swarfed heart dunt duutit like a man disposition, Banffs.] ; my humblin bear, and I was maist gasping for breath." HUMEST, adj. Uppermost. Perils of Man, ii. 30. Wallace gert tak in haist thar humest weid, . 1. kind of And sic lik men thai waillyt weill gud speid. HUMMEL-CORN, That grain ix. MS. Wallace, 705, which wants a beard, as pease, beans, &c., Perth edit, himest. V. UMAST. S. B. HUMET, s. A flannel night-cap, Aberd. It is used, however, in a sense directly the reverse, V. HOOMET. in the following passage, in which there is probably some mistake : "The farmer's who have families, and en- HUMILL, HUMLY, adj. Humble, Aberd. servants, gage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls Keg. oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two last articles are called hummel corn." P. Dunse, Berwicks. HUMILIE, HUMBLY, HUMYLY, adj. Humbly, Statist. Ace., iv. 386. iii. i. 578. Barbour, 762, In Berwicksh. three bolls of barley, with one of made into receive the of hindmost. peas, meal, designation HUMIST,a<#. The V. HEWMIST. hummel-corn. It appears that the proportion varies in different HUMLABAND, . A strap fixing an oar to places. its thowl, Shetl. Birrel speaks of humbell corn as contradistinguished and oats. This term is purely Islandic. For Gudm., Andr. from wheat, barley " In this moneth of October the and malt at gives hoemlaband, as signifying, nexura reini ; from quhyt in the ait maill 10 renitor whence and ham- ten lib. the boll ; March thairafter, hamla, impedio, ; hoemlun, 105. lib. the boll, the humlell corne 7 lib. the boll." Diary, la, impedimentum ; Lex., p. Hamla, medium 36. scalmi, the middle of the seat on which the rowers sit ; p. hamla, catena, vel vinculum quo remua ad scalmum 2. A term applied to the lighter grain of any alligatur, ne vacillet retro; hoemluband, idem ; Hal- dorson. kind, or that which falls from the rest when it is fanned, Roxb. Hence, s. HUMLOCK, HUMLIE, "A polled cow ; also a person whose head has been shaved, HUMMELCOEN, adj. Mean, shabby ; applied " a hummel- or hair cut" Gl. both to persons and things ; as, ; Lynds. " corn discourse," a poor sermon, a hummel- s. S. HUMLOIK, HUMLOCK, Hemlock, ibid. corn man," &c. ; Conium maculatum, Linn. Su.-G. himmelskorn is the name given to that kind of Reid heir life yonr at large, baith mair and min, which wants the hard skin that covers some With as the barley hyppcritis, ay slyding sand, other of this As humloik how, of wit and vertew thin. species grain. Ihre thinks that this is more properly kimlost korn, Charteris Adhort. Lyndsay's Warkis, 1592, A. 6, b. " from himi, or himin, the hull or covering, and loet, I couldna have played pew a dry humlock." upon laxus. V. HIMMEL. But perhaps it is rather q. Bride of Latnmermoor, ii. 248. V. PEW. hamlakorn, from hamla, to mutilate. V. HOMTLL. Palsgrave, however, writes humlocke, vo. Kickes, B.

iii, F. a. ; humbloclce, F. b. 43, 42, HUMMEL, HUMMLE, adj. Wanting horns. Here the S. deviates from the A.-S. original pron. V. HOMYLL. hemleac, hemlic. The last syllable resembles Belg. look, & leak. A gimmer, and a doddit yowe, A stirky, and a hummU cow. HUMLY, adj. Humble. Jacobite Relics, i. 11& " seand na in his Aruiragus, refuge, comperit hitmly HUMMEL-DODDIE, s. A ludicrous term ap- maner." Bellend. Cron., Fol. 34, a. plied to dress, especially to that of a wo- s. drone or is HUMMEL, A ; perhaps what man's head, when it has a flat and mean called the humble-bee. " Whatna hummel-doddie appearance ; as, and " Stuffets, strokours, stansche strummels, of a mutch is that ye've on ? Ang. Vyld haaclibalds, haggarbalds and kummels. It is of two terms. Dunbar, Maitland Poems, p. 109. evidently compounded synon. Tcut. hommet, Genn. hummel, fucus, from humm-en, HUMMEL'D, part. adj. "Chewed in a bombilare, to hum, to buzz. Su.-G. hum/a, apis silvestris, Germ, imme, apis, which Seren. derives from careless manner ;" Gall. EncvcL HUM [638] HUM

the HUMMEL-DKUHMEL, adj. Morose and Goupin suggests idea of concavity. I need that humma taciturn, Roxb. V. HUM-DRUM. scarcely say, (Koxb.) nearly retains the form of the A.-S. word. To v. n. To to HUMMER, murmur, grumble, [HUMMIL BUMMILL. A re- Ettr. For. mumbling petition. s. small so called And mekil Latyne he did [HUMMER, A top ; from mummill, I hard na thing bot hummill bummitt. the noise it makes, Clydes., Banffs.] Lyndsay, KMei's Confessioun, 1. 44.] A. Bor. "hummer, to make a low rumbling noise, North Grose. HUMP-GLUTTERAL, s. The flesh of a ;" Teut. hum-en, mutire ; Isl. humm-a, admurmurare mussitare. that has died a natural as ; tuunr-a, mussare, sheep death ; from which intimates HUMMIE, s. 1. The game otherwise called distinguished braxy, that the animal has died of Sel- Shintie, Loth. disease, " kirks. The shinty, or hummy, is played by a set of boys in two divisions, who attempt to drive with curved This has every appearance of being a cant term. sticks a or The first ball, what is more common, part of the syllable, however, may be allied to Humph 'd, vertebral bone of a sheep, in opposite directions." having a fusty taste. The last part of the word might be Blackw. Mag., Aug. 1821, p. 36. traced to Gludder, v., q. "all in a gluddery state."

2. The hooked stick with which this game is HUMPH, s. The name given to coal, played, ibid. when it approaches the surface, and be- C. B. hum, humig, humog, a bat or racket. Owen. comes useless, West of S. Allied 3. A term used by boys in the game of perhaps to Teut. homp-en, abscindere partes extremas. Shintie. If one of the adverse party hap- s. A fetid smell or pens to stand or run among his opponents, [HUMPH, taste, Banffs.] call out " they Hummie, i.e., Keep on your [To HUMPH, v. n. 1. To sniff as one detect- own side," Ettr. For. ing a fetid odour, ibid. This has been rather resolved, Home fancifully q. 2. To be dissatisfied with, to express displea- ^oi' ye. The call must certainly be viewed as borrowed ibid. from the game, and containing an order to regard the sure, laws of it. 3. To be in a pettish humour, ibid.] HUMMIE, HUMMOCK, s. 1. A grasp taken HUMPH'D, part. adj. Having a smell or by the thumb and four fingers placed taste indicative of some degree of putridity; together, or the space included within them d as, humph' beef, S. ; Hoam'd, Hoam-tasted, when thus conjoined, to the exclusion of the synon. Clydes. palm of the hand. It is pron. " Hummie, I wish he had fawn aff the tap o' his humphed ill- also Humma, Roxb., Ettr. For. ; Hummie, smelled hides, and broken the bane o' his neck." Hummock, Loth., Dumfr. The Hummock Perils of Man, iii. 283. denotes a smaller than the space Goupin. [HUMPHIN', part. pr. Sulking, being dis- " HummocTc, the fingers put so together by them- pleased, Clydes., Banffs. selves, that the tops of them are all on a level with one Used also as au adj., and as a s., ibid.] another ; when the hand is cold, it is impossible to fling the fingers into this form. People in frosty To HUMPLE, v. n. 1. To walk lame, weather try who stands cold best, by the way the from corns or strait shoes, Roxb. ; hummock can be made." Gall. Encycl. especially Hummock is occasionally used in Angus, towards the synon. Hirple. coast. Then humpled he out in a hurry, While Janet his 2. As much of meal, salt, &c., as is taken up courage bewails, An' cried out dear Symon, be wary, in this way, ibid. An' tughly she hang by his tails. A. Scott's 191. 3. To mak one's Hummie. To the Poems, p. compress Teut. humpel-en, inepte operari ; or rather from Dan. of the of one's hand all at points fingers hump-er, to be lame, to limp. once the of the thumb. " Can upon point 2. To assume a semicircular form, to exhibit ye mak your hummie ?" is a often question a hump, South of S. asked in a cold day, for the reason above When lo ! Sir David's trusty hound, mentioned, the stiffness of the fingers, Ettr. Wi' humpling back, an' hollow ee, For. Came ringing in, an' lookit round Wi' hopeless stare, wha there might be. Mountain 9. HUMMIE-FOU, HUMMOCK-FOW, s. The same Hogg's Bard, p. with sense 2 1. Hummock, ; Dumfr., Clydes. HUMPLOCK, s. A small heap, such as " I can offer no as to the of this of dirt is conjecture origin term, earth, stones, &c. ; as, The if it be not from A.-S. as hwomma, angulus, denoting clautit into a the angular form which the hand assumes in this humplocks;" humplock o'glaur, position, q. "the corner of the hand," as the term Renfrews. HUM [639] HUN

2. "A little rising-ground," Ayrs., Gl. Picken. To HUNE, v. n. 1. To stop, not to go on, "An it wadna be m.-iir o' a tae the gude-turn gie Ayrs. wuzzen o" ye a chirt, nor tae got ye on your en again, just tae be atoiterin' an' fa'in' o'er the first bit clod or 2. To loiter, Clydes. humplock it taks your fit." Saint Patrick, iii. 200. s. One who a a Probably from E. hump, and the S. diminutive ter- HUNE, delays, loiterer, drone, mination ock or lock, much used in the West of S. a lazy silly person, Clydes. [HUMS. V. HIMS.] To HUNE, v. n, 1. To emit a querulous sound, as children do when in a pettish HUMSTRUM.8. A pet," Gl. Shirr. S. B. humour, Aug. This tenn may be from hum, as in hum-drum, and S. I that E. hone, which Johns., after strum, a pettish humour. V. STRUE. suspect" Bailey, defines to pine, to long," and derives from A.-S. s. as is the same HUND, 1. Used a generic name for a hongian, radically word, and may origi- nally have the same meaning. I find no such A.-S. v. dog, S. as hongian. Fr. hoitjner, "to grumble, mutter, mur- I haitit him lyk ane hund, thoch I it hid previe. to mur ; repine ; also, to whyne as a child, or dog ;" Dunbar, Maitland Poems, p. 54. Cotgr. It would appear that hound had the same latitude of signification in O. E. 2. To stammer from sheepishness or conscious "It is not good to take the breed of children and guilt, so as not to be able distinctly to tell it to houndis;" Wiclif, Mark vii. gyve one's As hand is used by the Dutch in the same manner, story, Clydes. they have a Prov. exactly corresponding with that of HUNE, 8. One who stammers, and cannot our own country, only that we have substituted the tell his tale ibid. term Dog. Twee honden met een steen vellen ; "to distinctly, fell twa wi' stane." dogs yae [one] There can be no doubt that this is radically the same Moes.-G. vox hunds, canis, antiquiss., says Seren., with E. whine ; Moes.-G. quain-on, Isl. quein-a, Su.-G. ac multis et dialect, communis. propterea linguis hwin-a, lugere. is in sense as also A.-S. hund uied the same general ; Su.-G. Isl. Germ, hund, Belg. hand, Mem. hunt. Or. [HUNES, s. pi. The ends of the couples of which is viewed as a is called Plato KVUV, cognate, by a house, where they join at the pitch of the (in Cratylo) a Phrygian word. For he confesses that they received this, and many other terms, from the roof, Shetl.] Barbarians. Although hund is originally a generic s. A sea-fish, the Green- name, barbarous nations being much addicted to the [HUNGELL, and other use of bone Shetl. Isl. chace, scarcely knowing any dogs ; (Blennius viviparus), hcengr, the A.-S. have thence formed hunt-tan, venari. the male of fish.] 2. A designation given in contempt to an * To HUNGER, v. a. To pinch with hunger, avaricious person, as being eager to seize to famish, S. every thing as his prey, S. "Christ minds only to diet you, and not hunger you." Teut. homo Kilian Germ. hand, sordidus, avarus, ; Walker's Peden, p. 56. homo In Isl. it is also used " hund, vilis, mancipium. This is inserted by Mr. Todd, as a term common Tliti hinn ill! canis metaph. fiundr, Apage pessime ; in in the North of England ; and used, perhaps, other Verel. Ind. Su.-G. hundheden, canis ethnicus ; like the places." compliment paid by Mussulmen, Christian dog. HUNGHISUM, adj. Having rather too keen an To HUND, v. a. To incite. V. HOUND, v. appetite, Clydes. HUNDG in v. a. To [To (dg, pron. like_;'. joy), HUNGRISUMLIKE, adv. Somewhat voracious- drive or chase away, Shetl. Isl. hund, a ly, ib. dog, and geyr, to bark.] HUNGRISUMNESS, 8. The state of being under HUND-HUNGEK, . The ravenous of appetite the influence of hunger, ibid. a or hound S. B. dog ; Dog-hunger, synon., HUNGRY WORM. A phrase used to express a Dan. hunde hunger, "the hungry evil, the greedy in of in worm, the canine appetite ;" Wolff. Germ, liunds- popular idea the North S., regard hunger, Belg. hands/longer. V. Nemnich Lex. Nosol. to the cause of keen and the danger vo. Bulimia. hunger, of children fasting too long. It is common Ravenous as a " HUND-HUNGKY, adj. dog ; to say in the morning, Gie the bairn a bit S. B. cut its Dog- hungry, synon., piece, for fear the hungry worm HUNE, s. Delay. heart." this lan- The gmlman sayd nuto his madin sone, If the physical knowledge, expressed by Go pray thame bayth cum doun withoutin hune. guage, should excite a smile, one must feel pleasure at Dunbar, Bannalyne Poems, p. 76. Feast in the humanity of the idea. It is a worm also V. HONE. that causes the toothache. V. ONBKAST.

The trauchlit stag i' the wan waves lap, But hulinesa or hune. HUNGIN, part. pa. Hung, suspended. Jlarmaiden Edin. of Clyde, Mag., May, 1820. "Quhilk seill and stamp salbe applyit to leid, V. HONE. being sua strukiu and preutit with the said stamp, [640] HUP

aalbe to euerie and steik of thus illustrates the hungin wobe, peice, claith, term ; Ut haukr, accipiter, stat et silk and of natioun that heirefter sedet simul stuff, quhatsumeuer ; Lex., p. 126. In p. 108, he expressly salbe brocht within this realme," &c. Acts Ja. VI., derives huka from hauler, a hawk. Su.-G. huk-a, Teut. 1598, Ed. 1814, p. 185. huck-en, desidere, in terram se submittere; Kilian. id. to Belg. stoop down ; Sewel. Children in Loth, s. Milk the a in [HUNG-MILK, coagulated by heat have play, which they slide down a hill, sitting on their hunkers. This is called Huckie-buckie down the of the weather, placed in a linen bag and brae. The first part of this alliterative term retains till the has suspended whey, &c., dripped the radical form of the s. as used in Isl. and Teut. from it, leaving a thick creamy substance, Shetl.] [HUNKSIT, adj. High-shouldered, having the head sunk between the shoulders, HUNGRY GROUND. A curious super- Shetl.] stition prevails in some parts of the West s. Aberd. V. 16. of S. Some tracts of country are believed HUNNE, Honey, Reg., to be so much the under power of enchant- v. a. To the [To" HUNSH, shrug shoulders, ment, that he who over one of passes any Shetl.] them, would infallibly faint, if he did not To HUNT-THE-GOWK. To on a fool's use something for the support of nature. go errand, S. It is therefore customary to carry a piece of bread in one's pocket, to be eaten when one HUNT-THE-GOWK, s. A fool's errand; es- comes to what is called the hungry ground. pecially applied to one on which a person is sent on the first of day April ; synon. HUNK, s. A sluttish, indolent woman, a Gowk's errand, April-errand, S. drab; as, "a nasty hunk" a "lazy hunk," Roxb. HUNT-THE-GOWK, adj. This complex term, Perhaps from the same origin with Hunker, as indi- as conjoined with errand, denotes a fool's cative of laziness. V. HUNKERS. errand, S. " " It wad look I to be sent To HUNKER, v. n. 1. To hunker down, unco-like, thought, just out on a htmt-the-gowk errand wi a land-louper like to down," S. Gl. Shirr. V. the s. squat that." Guy Mannering, iii. 106. V. GOWK'S EKBAND. It occurs as v. a. He hunkert him down like a clockin hen, HUNT-THE-SLIPPER, s. A common An' flyret at me as I wad hae him. sport S. Jamieson's Popular Sail., i. 348. among young people, Tir'd wi' the steep, an' something dizzy, s. Ane a I hunker'd down, sae did the hizzy. HUNTIS, pi. huntis, hunting- Davidson's Seasons, p. 179. match, S. the hunker'd down a' " Upo" ground they three, After thare [departour] he past to ane huntis in ane An' to their crack fast an' they yoked free. wood call Wentonis whair he slew thrie Ross's [it] wood, Hdenore, First. Edit. , p. 81. hairis and ane tod." Bannatyne's Journ., p. 483. The hunts is still the vulgar phrase in S. Why the 2. Metaph. used to denote the lowly appear- pi. is used I cannot conjecture. ance of a hut. Ye'll see but heather AT THE HUNTIS. At a naething ; hunting-match. An' now an' than a wee bit cot, "Alexander Gordon of Dunkyntie, and George Bare, hv.nke.rin' on some lanely spot. Gordon his eldest son, with some servants, being at the A. Wilson's Poems, 1790, p. 210. hunts in Glenelg at the head of Strathaven, were upon the 19th of August cruelly murdered by certain high- HUNKERS, s. pi. To sit on one's hunkers, to land limmars." Spalding, i. 29. sit with the hips hanging downwards, and THE the weight of the body depending on the To HUNTIS. A-hunting. knees, S. "Quhen the hour and day thairof was cuming, he send the sonnis of Ancus, be crafty industry, to the In a bog twa paddocks sat, huntis." Bellenden'sT. 65. words in social chat Liv., p. Venatum ablega- Exchanging ; vit, Lat. Cock't on their hunkers facin' ither, The twasome sat curmud thegither. to a horse in order to A. Scott's Poems, p. 46. HUP, interj. Used I am persuaded that Hunkers, and the cognate terms make him quicken his pace, S. mentioned under this word, are allied to 0. E. hoke : C. B. hwp denotes a sudden effort, or push. But "Hoke, hamus. Hoked, hamatus." Parv. Prompt. perhaps this is rather an abbrev. of E. hie up, make as well as our resembles Su.-G. q. This, Hukebane, nearly haste. huk-a, and huck-en, desidere ; as indeed both these joints are necessary for enabling one to sit down. tires The Isl. v. is defined to the sense [HUPAND, part. pr. Hooping, putting exactly according on wheels. in which both u. and s. are used with us. Huk-a, in- curvare se cacantis Verel. Ind. refers to modo ; He "Item, in Lundoris, to Thome Barkar, hupand the incurvus. hauk-ur, Avium more semisedens haereo, quhelis for his owkis wage, xiijs iiijd." Accts. L. H. reclinare vulgo pro se ad necessaria; G. Andr. He Treas., Vol. I., p. 330, Dickson.] HUP [0*1] HUR

a. The circular g. ill tllC ex- IIUPES (of a mill), pi. [IIlUDIE-CAIKLK, A p:iill loins wooden frame, which surrounds the mill- perienced by reapers; it is caused by stoop- stones, and preserves the meal from being ing. Jlui'die, and caik, Mcarns. V. lost, Loth. HlPPIT.] This may be q. hoops. But the term is differently of To v. n. "To crouch or bow 1'i-on. from the latter, as applied to the iron lumps HURDLE, the mill. together like a cat, hedgehog, or hare ;" Shirr. Gl. To HUR, v. n. To snarl, to growl. If not an error of the press, for hurkle, it appears Let poetaster parasites who feign. nearly allied. V. HURKILL. Who fawn and croutch, and coutch and creep for gain, And, where no hope of gain is, huffe and fntr, " a s. A woman : And bark against the moon, as doth cur ; HURDON, big-hipped Wish thee disgrac'd Gall. Encycl. V. HUKDIES. Muses Threnodie, p. 72. "Harr, to snarle like an angry dog ;" Lancash. T. HURDYS, s.pl Hurdles. Bobbins. Wrightis welterand douiie treis, wit but Lat. Su.-G. id. ye weir, hirr-ire, knorr-a, kntirr-a, Ordanit full hie in holtis sa hurdys haire ; C. B. the or snarl of a ; Owen ; lior, gnar dog chwyrn- For to greif thair gomys gramest that wer. to to v, snarl, growl. Qawan and Ool. ii. 13. , Germ, kurd, Belg. horde, Fr. hourde, an hurdle. HURB, . A puny or dwarfish person, Aberd. a. S. I see nothing nearer than Isl. hoerfa, fugere, hor-finn, HURE, HORE, A whore,

e subductus, hwarf, discessus ab oculis ; conspectu It occurs in this form, in one of these Ballads which so Moes.-G. hwairb-an, abire ; q. an object small that were printed at the Reformation, and meant to lash it vanishes from the sight. the conduct of the Popish clergy ; although often in language not of the most delicate kind. HURBLE, s. A term used to denote a lean The Parson wald nocht haue an or A hurble, S. B. hure, meagre object. puir But twa and they were bony. Sixc. Godly Sanys, p. 37. HURCHAM. Hurcliam skin may signify a Leve hasardrie, your harlotrie, and Aim'?. skin like a Ilurclieon. hedgehog. V. Ed. Lyndsay, Tragedie of the Cardinal!. 1508 hurtheon. Bot thay disponit that geir all uther gatis, On cartis and dyce, on harlotrie and nuris, With hard hurchftm skin sa heclis he my chekis, Lyndsay's Drew*. [That even lyk] ane glemand gleid glowis my chaftis. Dunbar, Maitland Poems, p. 48. A.-S. hure, Tent, httr, Belg. hoere, Dan. /tore, Su.-G. Itora, Isl. Itoora, id. A.-S. horcwena, Su.-G. horknoa, HURCHEON, s. A hedgehog, S. urchin, meretrix. Hureqtityn is common in the same sense, E. from Fr. hensson. S. B. Verel. observes, that Jsl. hora anciently signified a ancilla and handmaid, ; changed in sense like konn, a woman, olirn uxor, hodie E. queane, meretrix. Her- HURCHTABILL, adj. Hurtful, prejudi- varar S., p. 119. cial, Aberd. Reg. Alem. huor. Germ, hure, Fenn. huora, Norm. Fr. Jiore, id. Somner, when explaining the A.-S. word KURD, HURDE, s. A hoard, a treasure, S. hare, id., says, "Scotis hodieque hur, a whore, as we at this write, the day it, idely prefixing w to Saxon word ; It seema to be merely the same word, used in a pe- it being neither in the sound, nor in the original, which culiar sense, which is used by Wyntown. is derived of hyr-an, conducere," i.e., to hire. The Than all the lawe in that ryot, derivation from hyr-an is confirmed by the C. B. For That thai in-to schyppys fand, as huran denotes a prostitute, hur signifies hire, wages, Thai lat rycht nane than to land : pas and hur-iaw, to take hire. Na thai of thanie made na hurde, Bot in tlie se kest thame our the Lurde. #. Whoredom. C'ron., vii. 9. 103. HUREDOME, HOREDOME, " " did not Their huredome baited hee right sair. i.e., They spare or save them ; as men 11. do what they treasure up. Htird is still the S. pro- Godly Sangs, \\ nunciation. The root seems to be Isl. hinl-a, custodire. Thi fader tin moder gan hide, In horedvm he hir baud. Sir Trislrem, st. 79. HURDIES, s. pi. The hips, the buttocks, S. p. 48,

This term seems to occur in the : following passage . S. HURE-QUEYN, A whore, ; pron. q. Of hir hurdes sche had na hauld, S. B. V. HURE. Quhill sche had teimd hir monyfawld. fiuir-coyn, Lyndsay, S. P. R., ii. 88 r. n. To loaf about, to work The sense of the passage corresponds. Perhaps the [To HURK, word was written hurdtli. Mr. Chalmers gives hur- lazily, Banffs.] dies, referring to A.-S. hurdel, plectrum. But I do not perceive the connection between this part of the [To HURK ABOOT, r. w. To go about in a body, and a h urdle, or wattle. secret Lazy, sneaking, manner, ibid.] Nae Dane, nor Dutch, wi' breeks three pair, Enough to make ane's hurdies sair, ABOOT, part. pr. Going about in Can with our Highland dress coin). are. [HuRKix' a sort of ibid. 1 R. Galloway's Poems, p. 25. lazy, creeping manner, VOL. II. 14 HUR [642] HUR

also as a a dis- s., implying lazy, sneaking HURKLE-BANE, HURKLE-BONE, S. The hip- position, with a habit of wandering from bone, Aberd., Mearns.; synon. Whorle Bane, to place place, ibid.] Fife ; E. huckle-bone. She thratches, trembles, and she groans, And falls down her IIURItER, s. A semicircular piece of iron, on hurkle-bones. Meston's Poems, 133. put on an axle-tree, inside of the wheel, to p. From Hurkill, Hurkle, v. ; or from friction on the Roxb. q. immediately prevent cart-body, the Teut. v. hurken, to squat, because it is by the It might seem allied to Su.-G. hurrhake, a hinge, flexion of this joint that one sits down. which Ihre derives from The modern E. word more hurra, cum impetu circumagi ; nearly resembles Teut. although the origin is probably pointed out by the form hack-en, to sit down, desidere, subsidere. of Isl. hurdar-oki, impages, subscus, q. a. door-yoke, from hurd, janua. HURKLE-BACKIT, adj. Crook-backed, S. "Up comes hurkle-backit Charley Johnston, the [HURKIE,s. The Bib; Gadus luseus, Linn. laird's auld companion in wickedness, wi' a saddle an' a to take her When it is called Miller's Thoom, pad away." Brownie of Bodsbeck, ii. young 145. Banffs.] To HURKLE-DURKLE, v. n. To lie in bed, or To HURKILL, HURKLE, v. n. 1. To crouch, to lounge, after it is time to get up or to go to draw the as a lion brood- body together, to work, Fife. ing over his prey, S. s. Joyfull he bradis tharon dispituusly, HURKLE-DURKLE, Sluggishness in bed, or With and in gapeand goule, vprysis hy otherwise, ibid. The lokkeris lyand in his nek rouch, after And al the beistis bowellis thrymlis throuch, Lang peeping greke o' day, In hurkle-durkle Habbie Hurkittand thareon, quhare he remanit and stude. lay. Gae tae dernan Doug. Virgil, 345, 30. ye'r wark, ye murkle, And ly nae there in hurkle durkle. MS. Poem. 2. To be in a rickety or decrepit state. Teut. durck, sentina, a sink. V. HURKILL. Thy rig-bane rattles, and thy ribs on raw, The hanches hurklis with hukebanes harsh and haw. [HuRKLiV, part. pr. 1. with diffi- With hurklcmd banes, ay howkaud throu thy hyde. Walking Dunbar, Evergreen, ii. 57, st. 17, 18. culty on account of weakness or stiffness of Do not see and ye Rob, Jock, Hab, the legs, Banffs. As they are girded gallantly, While I sit hurlden in the ase ; 2. Used as as.; a cripple, one who has rickety I'll have a new cloak about me. ibid. Ritsoris S. Songs, i. 221. legs, 3. Used as an the 3. To be contracted into folds. adj. ; cripple, having legs

Of Agarens what tongue can tell the tryne, rickety, ibid.] With hurklit hude ouer a weill nourisht necke ? s. horse-hoe for Jabell and Amon, als fat as any swine, HURKLE, A used cleaning

can not hot and : Quhilke doe, drink, sing, jouk, bek turnips, Ettr. For. The Amalekis, that leissings weill can cleke, to weed from a rake or har- The Palestenis with dum doctours of Tyre, Belg. harkel-en, j hark, row Su.-G. id. Whilke dar not disput, but cryes, Fyre, fyre. ; harka, Poems of the Sixteenth Cent., p. 97. s. The peculiar sound in This occurs in a keen application of Psalm Ixxxiii. [HURKLIN, to the church of Rome. breathing caused by phlegm in the throat it refer to the hood as Here, however, may merely or breast, Shetl.] extending downwards from the head over the neck. " This word is also used in 0. E. A hare is said to HURL, s. The act of sometimes sit and not to because she Jul. scolding; ly, always hurclys." a Barns. V. Skinner. expressed, hurl of a fly te, S. " I in gaed by, thinkin she was gau' to gi' me cheese To walk and bread, or that woud na to [4. with difficulty, the legs being something speak me, but she ga' me sic a hurl I never gat the like o't," &c. rickety, Banffs.] H. Blyd's Contract, p. 6. Either the E. Sibb. derives it from Sw. huk-a, inclinatis clunibus word metaph. used, or from the same

; Isl. turbine versatur cir- humi incubare. But although this is considerably origin hwirl-ar, ; hwerf-a, Su.-G. cum allied in sense, yet, as hunker and hurkle are used quite cumagi, hurr-a, impetu circumagi. In 0. E. occurs in a sense distinctly, they seem radically different, being con- hurlinye nearly allied. nected with terms distinguished from each other in "Ifurlitts/eoiBtryfe. Conflictus." Prompt. Parv. various Northern dialects : Teut. hurck-en, inclinare se s. 1. A of hard material ; Belg. hurk-en, to squat, to sit stooping. Fris. [HURL, quantity horck-en, coutrahere membra ut calefiant. Isl. thrown in confusion and with noise. hruka, corrugatio, coarctatio, junetio genu calcibus sedeutes At sitla eirne ; hruku, attractus popliti pedi- 2. The noise caused the or throw- bua sedere by falling juuctim ; hrok, corrugor, coarctor ; G. down of a of hard materials, Andr. A. Bor. ruck, "to squat or shrink down," ing quantity (Grose) seems to claim the same origin. ibid.] HUE [643] HTJR

. "He shot horse at the moment that I HURL, An airing in a carriage, what in my good was offering him honourable quarter, which was done E. is called a S., from the motion. drive, more like an ignorant Highland Cateran, who has not "What if a frien" hire a chaise, and gie me a hurl, gense enough to erect a sconce for the protection of his am I to pay the hire? I never heard o' sic extortion." old hurley-house of a castle than like a soldier of worth Sir A. Wyllie, i. 92. and quality." Leg. Montr. Tales, 3 ser. iv. 257. "Here is a fine old hurley-house you have found out To HURL, v. a. To draw or drive a wheel- for an owl to hide himself in at mid-day, or a ghost to revisit the of the moon. The barrow, &c., S. pale glimpses Pirate, iii. 76. Allied to To HURL, v. n. 1. To be driven in a carriage. perhaps Isl. hverfull, caducus, frail, q. ready to fall, or hurl down about the ears of the in- habitants. 2. The motion of the carriage itself, S. In gratitude he was obliged To Phoebus, therefore did provide him HURLIE-GO-THOROW, *. A racket, a A coach for him to ride in trusty ; ado, Berwicks. ; with And, without brag, ne'er hackney hurl'd great q. going through On better wheels in the wide world. a hurl, i.e., with noise or confusion. Moslem's Poems, p. 136. This seems radically the same with E. whirl, which HURLIE-HACKET, s. 1. Sliding down has to 0. Sw. Isl. great affinity hworl-a, rotare, hvirl-a, a precipice, a kind of childish Sibb. turbine versari. sport," Better go revell at the rackat. Or ellis to the HURLER, s. One employed in carrying stones, go hurly-hackat. This it was a diversion. peats, &c., on a wheelbarrow, S. appears royal " Hk man efter thftir qualitie, It is taken the women wheelers [the peat] up by Thay did solist his Maiestie. who a number of them a wheel- (hurlers), lay upon Sum gart him rauell at the barrow without racket, sides, and lay them down, side by side, Sum hurlit him to the hurlie-hakket. some Surv. upon contiguous dry ground." Agr. Peeb., Lyndsay's Warkis, 1592, p. 265. p. 209. The use of this diversion might be the reason of the name to an eminence mentioned as in s. A kind of wheel-barrow given the vicinity [HuRLiE, large of used Stirling. by porters, Banffs.] "It is highly probable that Hurly Haah/ was the hill of the mote castle of Stirling." Nimmo's Stirling- To . n. To to HURL, toy, dally amorously, shire, p. 255. Dumfr. Hence, The conjecture thrown out by Nimmo, as to the of the name of this is origin place, confirmed by the s. Dalliance a in- HURLIN, ; especially most remarks of an elegant writer, well acquainted with the of his delicate species of it, practised in the Hairst antiquities country. "This heading hill," as it was sometimes termed, Rig, Dumfr.; Bagenin, Fife. synon. "bears commonly the less terrible name of Hurly- This have some may affinity to Su.-G. hwer-fla, in hacket, from its having been the scene of a courtly orbem cito agere. amusement alluded to by Sir David Lindsay, who says of the pastimes in which the young king was engaged, . A S. HURLEBARROW, wheelbarrow, 'Some harled him to the Hurly-hacket ;' Then I knew no how to way fen, which consisted in sliding, in some sort of chair, it guts rumbled like a My hurlebarrmo, may be supposed, from top to bottom of a smooth I din'd with Saints and Noble-men, bank. The boys of Edinburgh, about twenty years Even sweet Saint Giles and Earl of Murray. ago, used to play at the hurly-hacket on the Calton-hill, Banish. Watson's i. Poverty, Coll., 13. ' ' using for their seat a horse's skull. Lady of the Lake, "It is kittle for the when the hvrlbarrow cheeks, Notes, cxi. o'er gaes the brig of the nose ;" Ramsay's S. Prov., p. 46. 2. Metaph. transferred in the language of HURLE BEHIND. A ludicrous designation contempt, to an ill-hung carriage, the rough for the diarrhoea. motion of which may seem to resemble Thou skylaud skarth, thou has the kurle behind. that of boys on the head of a dead horse. Dunbar, ii. st. 19. Evergreen, 57, " ' I never thought to have entered ane o" theirthe! hur- This phrase is formed from the E. v. used in this she as she seated ' and sic a sense, in the same manner as the Sw. use the term ley-hackets,' said, herself, like thing as it is scarce room for twa folks !' St. durcli-lopp, id. from (lurch, per, and loppa, currere. Hunan, ii. 52. would seem of The name Scandinavian origin ; Su.-G. [HURLESS," adj. Deafened with noise, hurr-a, whence E. hurl, and halk-a, to slide, per lubrica

Shetl.J ferri ; Ihre. A similar diversion, that of the ice- mountains, is well known in Russia. V. Coxe's HURLEY-HOUSE, HURLY-HOUSE, s. A Travels. house fallen into large disrepair, or nearly in ruins, South of S. HURLOCH, URLOCH, adj. Expl. "cloudy, wish Gael, obherlach." "I now (his eyes fixed on a part of thereof that was visible above the trees, ) that I could have And mony a cald hurlocfi eenin. left Kose the auld httrley-hotise, and the belanc- riggs Through weet aud throw snaw had he pane. to it." iii. 289. ing Waverley, 288, Jamieson's 1'vpul. Ball., i. 295. HUE [044] BUR

which is deduced from Fr. hurlu incon- IIURLY, HURLY-BURLY,S. Expl., "the last," burly, brelu, : The similar the Aberd. siderately Danes, however, have a phrase, lag, hurl om burl, topsy-turvy. An' sail this sleeth come farrei ben ? He scarce wou'd gae a fit frae hame, HURRY-BURRY, ado. In confused haste, An' to us a' was hurly. Aberd. Poems in the Buchan Dialect, p. 5. There and ladies If I was hurly, there was cause, dashy bucks, trippin, Wi' sklentin' airs Believe me as ye like. ; But ruimin' Ibid., p. 30. hurry lurry loupin' As till red fires. Hurl, which has the same signification, would seem D. Anderson's Poems, p. 116. allied to C. B. huyr, hwyr, slow, tedious, late. Hurly- burly, in this sense, has most probably had no other HURRY-SCURRY, s. A tumult, an up- origin than the playful invention of children, who roar, delight in reduplications. Aug. Su.-G. hurra, cum impetu circumagi; skorra, sonum stridulum or [HURLY-HINMOST, adj. Last, lag, Banffs.] edere, skura, increpare, objurgare. v. a. and n. 1. To move HURLY-GUSH, s. The bursting out of [To HURSCHLE, the in a or water, Teviotdale. body creeping trailing manner, " " Banffs., Clydes. IIURLY HAWKIE. The call which " by milk-maids to call 2. To allow use the cows home to be a thing to slip down with an easy milked ;" Gall. Encycl. motion, ibid. " And aye she cries Surly Hawkw, 3. To or one String awa, ray crummies to the milking loan, push drag body over the surface Hurly, Uurly, Hawky." Ibid. of ibid. V. " another, HIRSILL.] I can scarcely view this as from O. Fr. harlou, in- 1 stead of Hare-loup, a word wherewith dogs that hunt 1. as [HuilSCHLiN , part. pr. Used a part. a woolfe, are cheered," Cotgr. Hurie is a cry for and also as a s., in the various senses of the help, Roquefort. Shall we say, q. hurie la, help there ? v. ibid. HURON, LANG-CRAIG'D-HURON, s. The 2. Used as an adj., implying grating, rustling heron, Roxb. ; Herle and Huril in Angus. like leaves, silk, paper, &c., ibid.] [HURRACK, s. That part of a boat between s. 1. confused ibid. the after-thoft " [HURSCHLE, A mass, and the stern ; also shot," Shetl.] 2. A slipping down or forward, ibid. with [HURRALESS,' adj. Stupid noise, 3. The noise made by the fall of a mass of Shetl.] any material, or by the pulling or pushing of one body over another, HURRY, s. A severe reprehension, the act ibid.] of Fife. scolding, HURSTIS, Sir Gawan and Sir Gal., i. 5. V. This at first view might seem to be a metonymical HIRST. application of the E. term, as signifying that the per- son, who is reprehended, is flustered or put in a hurry. HURTHY. But it is allied, perhaps, to Fr. haraud-er, to scold, Than ilka foull of his flicht a fether has ta'en, from 0. Fr. harau, /tart, &c., clameur du pour implorer And let the Houlat in but hone. secours ou la haste, hmthy reclamer justice ; Gl. Roquefort. V. HABRO. Houlate, iii. 20. as in i.e. with Leg. hurtly, MS., promptly, alacrity ; as further the but hone : Germ. HURRY-BURRY, s. A reduplicative word, expressed by addition, hurt'uj, expeditus, promptus, agilis ; hurt, impetus. denoting great confusion, attended with a This, both Junius and Wachter derive from C. B.

considerable of a S. ; citus. Let is here used as degree noise, tumult, ; hwrdd, impetus signifying V. LET. synon. Hurry-scurry. left. I never sa meikle a' leugli my life, HURT MAIESTIE. A phrase frequently To read the king's birth-day's fell hurry-burry, in our old as a How draigl'd Pussey flies about like fury. occurring Acts translation of A. Wilson's 45. Poems, 1816, p. lese-majesty. The hurry-burry now began, "Thay that attemptis, acceptis, or purchasis sic Was right weel worth the seeing. ony beneficis the court of or committis the Wi' routs and raps frae man to man, [at Rome], of hurt maiestie his that the Some getting and some gieing. cryme against hienes, panis coutenit in the act of be Christmas Ba'ing, Skinner's Misc. Poet., p. 125. parliament execute vpone thame." Acts Ja. Ed. c. We might suppose this to have been formed from IV., 1488, 1566, 13. Su.-G. Isl. under and hurra, expl. Hurry-scurry, bur, Hurtful. pagus, the tumult of the If Su.-G. HURTSOME, adj. q. village. boer, " ventus, be the origin of the latter part of the word, Their entry was hurtsome to the cause, and nothing then it might primarily denote the violent agitation but a selling of truth, and a buying of sinful liberty to the wind. produced by Perhaps corr. from E. hurly- themselves." Society Contendings, p. 108. II IS [045] II I S

is also But there seems to be considerable ground of hesita- HUSBAND, . A farmer. The term tion this head. The subject, at any rate, merits a more used in E., more husband- although commonly minute investigation. From my very slender acquaint- man. ance with matters of this kind, I can only pretend to throw out a few which call the attention of In the contr thar wonnyt anc hints, may are far better for such a discussion. 'Unit husband wes, and with his fe others who qualified cannot Otftsyss liay to the peile led he. The passage quoted above, from Keg. Maj., Harbour, x. 151, MS. perhaps be viewed "as even determining the sense in which the term rusticux was understood in Scotland, Ane, on the wall that lay, Besid him till his fere when these laws were written. Because nttticus is up- " gan say, This man thinkis to mak gud cher," posed to liber homo, we must not immediately conclude neuimyt ane husband thnrtiy ncr) that the former denoted a villain or bondman. For (And" That has left all his owt" oxyn the phrase, liber homo, admitted of different senses. ver. 387. Hid., It was commonly opposed to vassus or vassalliu ; the Tliai gadryt in to full gret hy former denoting an allod ial proprietor, the latter one who Archeris, barges, and yhumanry. held of a superior. V. Robertson's Charles V., Vol. I. Preystiss, clerkys, moukis, and freris 258. and men of all maneris. " Husbandis, Skene says, that Bondi, natiui, and villani, signifies Ibid., xva 542. ane thing ;" vo. Bondar/ium. He accordingly explains "slaverie or This does not generally occur in its compound form bondayium, or villenayium, as denoting as first or servitude." But here he is mistaken. For in other dialects ; but either formed by the certainly the nativi had no of their own as well last syllable. Teut. huys-man, agricola, colonus. Su.-G. property ; this, masters. Hence it bonke, an inhabitant of the country, as opposed to one as their persons, belonging to their is "Gif the defender in the of who lives in town ; also, one who farms his own land. said; failye probation he sail 1 A.-S. husbonda, and Isl. husbondi, both signify pater- his libertie, and be found ane bond-man, to the as his natiue bond-matt, familias, herus ; the master of a family ; hence the adjudged persewer, A.-S. word has been transferred to a husband, in the (tanquam natlmis), without all rccoverie, or remedk-, modern sense of the term, maritus. L. B. husbandus, with all his cattell and gudes quhatsomeuer." Reg. Maj. B. c. 14. V. alsoc. 5. But the hatband husbanda, paterfamiliasagricultnramexercens ; econom- ii., 11, xii., had of his own otherwise there would have us, Gallis, JUesnayer; Du Cange. Spelman says, property ; for claim of the beat audit, that husbanda is used for agricola, in the Laws of Ina, been no reason the particular c. 19. But I have not observed the term in any of his by his master at his death. Quon. Attach., c. 23. laws. In Domesday Book, Bondmen, called Servi, are Mr. Pinkerton renders the word, as used by Harbour, distinguished from Villani, V. Cowel, vo. Bowl. B. c. all who by villani, men bound to a certain house and farm, and According to Reg. Maj. iv., 36, 3, 4, at the will of their lords. he were of a lower rank than the sons of Thanes, were assignable "Such," adds, "existed in England, even to the reign of Elizabeth," rustici. N. Barbour, xvii. 542. "The Cro of the son of an Than, is thriescore sax Ane husbandman, in our old Laws, is opposed to ane kye. Item, all quha are inferiour in parentage, are husband- frie man. If a person accused decline singular combat, husbandmen (or yeomen). And the Cro of ane it is required that he purge himself "be the judge- man, is saxtene kye. used in a sense, ment of God, that is, be hote iron, gif he be ane frie The term rustici is evidently general as all had not some kind of man ; or be water, gif he be ane husbandman, conforme including who nobility. were to the condition and state of the men." Reg. Maj. B. But it cannot be supposed that all, except nobles, the were as iv., c. 3. Liber homo and rusticus, are the terms used slaves ; or that husbandi bondi, equivalent in the original. to nativi and villani. sense of one Sibb. has justly observed, that "to this day, a It seems difficult to determine the bondi occur. fanner's cottar or cottager, who, instead of paying rent, passage, in which both husbandi and and of his engages to lie a reaper in harvest, is said to be bund or "Of the scheip of the king's husbandmen, " bound for his house. This may be considered as a bondmen: the forester sail haue anc pennie, allanerlie." remnant of the old system. Service of this kind, as Forrest Lawes, c. 4, 2. In the Lat. it is Husbondorum well as that which some farmers themselves are bound vel Bondorum Domini Regis. As expl. by Skene, by their leases to give to their landlords, is still called husbandmen seem distinguished from bondmen. But, bondage, S. from the original, it is doubtful, whether the conjunc- When any freeman wished to renounce his liberty, tion be distinctive or expletive. for which a and become a bond-servant to a great man, in order to In A.-S. that was called Bonde-land, without idea have his protection, he made delivery of himself, in his certain rent was paid ; although any For a certain court, by giving the other a grip of the hair of his fore- of servitude on the part of the tenant. the advice of all the monks head. If he attempted to regain his liberty, by running Ablx>t, named .Beonno.with a noble- away, his master had a right to draw him back again of the monastery, gave in lease to Cuthbriht, to his service by the nose. Hence it is still accounted man, bonde-land at Swines-heafde, (x tributariorum on con- so great a disgrace, when one lays hold of another in terrain,) with the pastures and meadows, &c., " to the Abljot this quarter. Or, as 'Skeno expresses it, Fra the dition that he should annually pay fifty quhilk the Scottish saying cummis, quhen ane boastis Pounds, and one night's lodging, or thirty shillings in that the lands should return to the aud menacis to take ane vther be the None." Skeue, money ; and -Chron. Verb. Sign. vo. Bondayium. V. TAPPIE-TOUSIE. monastery after Cuthbriht's death. V. Sax., It must be observed, however, that the term bonde, ap. A. 775. colonus Pontanus as used by the Goths, did not originally imply the idea As Dan. bonde signifies rusticus, ; liberi of inferiority. It was indeed a designation expressive (Chorgoraph. Daniae) renders fribunder, coloni. of the respectable rank of the person to whom it was Du Cange, vo. Bondu*. applied. It is unquestionable, that some of those employed It has been generally understood from the language in agriculture were free men. "These are distinguished writers of middle of our laws, that husbands, or, what we now call by various names among the the all from to and farmers, were formerly bond-men ; and of conse- ages, Arimanni [perhaps ar-a, car, man, q. quence, that husbandi and rustici are synon. with nativi, tuliag men] eonditionales, oriijinnrii, tributalei, 4c. or adscripts gltbae. These seem to have been persons who possessed some HUS [046] HUS

small allodial property of their own, and besides that, ing a family there. Hence it would come to signify cultivated some farm to their more of belonging wealthy the master a family ; and, by an easy transition, a for which a fixed rent and it also neighbours, they paid ; husband. In S. denotes the steward of a ship. bound themselves likewise to perform several small This name is given to the master of a sloop, or smaller services in jrrato, vel in messe, in aratitra, vel in vinea, vessel. A.-S. land-buenda seems to have been synon. such as ploughing a certain quantity of their landlord's with hus-bonda; the one was bor- " although designation ground, assisting him in harvest and vintage work, &c. rowed from the dwelling, the other from the land sur- Robertson's Cha. V., Vol. I., p.' 275, 276. rounding it. This obligation, although very different from actual In Sweden, the term Bonde, about the time of the slavery, may account for the continued use of the term introduction of Christianity, was so honourable an ap- bondage, as applied to certain services, which some pellation, that those who bore it were admitted into tenants are still to to the alliance the engaged perform, according with royal family ; and afterwards none tenor of their leases. might be elected a Bishop or a Layman, but the son of In a charter granted by John of Nevill, husbands are a Bonde, ; because the children of those who attended distinguished from bondmen. "Condonetur omnibus on the court were not reckoned worthy of the same tenentibus meis, videlicet Husbandis, Cotiers et Bond ; confidence. Every Bonde, even so late as the reign of nee volo quod legacio haec se extendat ad liberos Gustavus Adolphus, might be formally admitted into tenentes meos aut inyenuos, habent terras de suo the rank of nobles, if he in full armour at the qui " appeared proprio vel aliorum, et tenent aliquid de me. Madox, wapentake. It was only in consequence of the rank of Formul. Anglican., p. 428, ap. Du Cange, vo. Bondus. nobility being more coveted in later times, that the Here we might suppose, that we found our farmers name of Bonde sunk in its signification. or husbandmen, our cottars, and also the nativi or The term became gradually less honoxxrable, till at villains. It is that the term Inubandi is here probable length all who resided in the country, whether they applied to those free men who had lands of their own cultivated their own lands or those of others, came to as well as to such as cultivated the lands of be known this name with this limitation property, by ; only, in others, but who some respects held of them. that they were distinguished according to the descrip- Nativus bondus are and used as synon. ; Quon. tion of the lands they possessed. V. Ihre, vo. Bonde. Attach., c. 56, 7. 2. Stat. Rob. I., c. 34, c. 1. It may be observed, that E. boor, acknowledges the be There can no doubt that nativus denotes one who same origin. It is merely Belg. bouwer, contr. boer, is in a state of V. c. 1. from colere slavery. Quon. Attach., 56, agricola, (Kilian) bouw-en, arare, agrum ; 3. 5. 7. They are distinguished Robertson's Charters, Germ, bauer, indigena, incola civitatis, pagi, villae, vel 81. 162. 85. 201. 89. 241. 91. 266. 96. p. 307. alterius loci communis ; ge-bauer, colonus, from bau-en, But I am much inclined to from the to also to inhabit think, that, cultivate, ; A.-S. ije-bur, Alem. ye- resemblance of the term Husbondus to Bondus, the two bura, colonus, paganus, villanus, villicus. V. UDAL in later been confounded that have, times, ; or L. B. LANDS, ad fin. bondus, as formed from the part. pa. of A.-S. bind-an, to has been viewed as into the bind, entering composi- HUSBAND-LAND, s. A division tion of i.e. commonly husband, , husbandman. Sibb. has evidently fallen into this error. containing twenty-six acres of soc and syith Somner has that A.-S. that of laud as tilled supposed bonda, paterfamilias, land, is, such may be is of Dan. origin. And indeed, we receive much light by a plough, or mowed by a scythe. as to the use of this term, by looking into the Northern dialects. It is not easy to determine its original mean- Sibb. by mistake renders this, "according to Skene, ing, because in these ancient languages, it admits of six acres. The measurement was various. Hence different senses. Isl. buandi denotes one who has a Skene says; "I finde na certaine rule prescrived anent house and family ; qui familiam et domum possidet. the quantity or valour of ane husbandland." Verb. Bonde, which is certainly the same word, not only Sign, in voc. bears this sense, but signifies a husband, maritus. The definition I have given of this term has been Su.-G. bonde denotes the head of a family, as opposed charged with inaccuracy. Had this been done merely to a servant a as to a wife en or in the course of I ; husband, opposed ; a passant, conversation, might citizen or as to a either have overlooked it or it private person, opposed prince ; an entirely, passed very inhabitant of the country, as opposed to those who live slightly. But as this has been done formally in our in also one as the has been towns ; and who possesses his own inheri- Courts of Law, charge exhibited even as before the Court of the tance, distinguished from those who cultivate the Supreme United Kingdom ; I property of others. reckon myself bound to consider it more fully than I Isl. and are the would otherwise have done. This I not for buandi, bondi, bonde, merely part, do, merely pr. of bo, bu-a, to dwell, to inhabit. The term is ac- my own vindication, and from the influence which such cordingly sometimes written boende, as in Heims Kring., a charge, if not refuted, may have on the general i. it of in 478. Here exactly retains the form of the credibility my work, especially legal matters ; participle. but from a regard to justice, as this allegation may A.-S. buend, buenda, colonus, agricola, is perfectly afterwards be urged, and made the basis of erroneous in- as analogous ; being the part. pr. of bu-an, colere, and decisions to property of the same description, to the timately allied to by-a, by-an, habitare, possidere. essential injury of individuals. They appear, indeed, to have been originally the same In a Petition given in to the Court of Session, by v. Alem. bu-en, pu-an, habitare. Thomas Bell, Esq., late of Nether Horsburgh, Nov. It may seem doubtful, whether we should view the 25th, 1815, it is said . as primarily signifying to cultivate, or to inhabit. "Dr. Jamieson is the only author who gives a dif- The latter has the this the ferent on this for he in his late perhaps prior claim, being opinion point ; says, sense of Moes-G. bau-an. Corresponding to this idea, Dictionary, that a husbandland is twenty-six acres, . is the sense given of A.-S. land-buendas ; coloni, in- which is equal to two oxengates, instead of half an colae dwellers or or the land but for nor can ; inhabitants of, on, ; oxengate ; he gives no authority this, Somner. Thus as boende, bond, in its simple form, the petitioner learn from the Doctor himself upon what " " " literally signified, one inhabiting, the term hus seems he proceeds. to have been prefixed, as limiting the sense, and de- This certainly is not expressed in such a mode as I noting that the person, thus designed, inhabited a had a right to expect from a candid reader, from one house, or was a constant resident in the country, keep- especially who may be supposed to have consulted HUS [647] HUS

Skene De Vtrbvrwn Signification*, the work referred to contingat me obire, volo quod tola firma mca unius in the close of a short I termini tune ultimo condonetur omnibus tenen- very article. certainly meant elapsi tibus videlicet cotiers Vo. to give this as my authority ; only I modernized the meis Himbawl'a, & bond. a and to avoid it as the Jfusbaiulus. Who can read this and that the language little, repetition, gave " say il liuition of the term. Skene's words, however, in the writer classes the husbandus as a cottar or bonds- which was used me are man ? He indeed, in a certain sense, be said to copy" by may HUSBANDLAND contcinis commonly twentie sex class him with cottars and bondmen, as to the common rent for term but he so aikers of sok and syith lande : That is of sik lando as immunity from paying one ; may be tilled with ane pleuch, or may be mawed with classes them as clearly to distinguish the husbandman ane syth." Vo. Husbandland. from both. For the language is unquestionably dis- different classes of men- These words, "Nor can the petitioner learn from the tributive ; three tenants being is the Doctor himself," &c., refer indeed to a personal appli- tioned. So far it from being the case, as cation made to me by the agent whose name appears Petitioner has attempted to prove, that husbandus at this Petition. But as it was on the common street denoted one who was a bondman, that the passage, in that this was I that I could the clearest the reverse. An application made, replied manner, proves very class between the husbandman not be supposed capable of answering queries as to intermediate appears every article in my Dictionary, or of carrying my and the bondman. Even cottars are here distinguished viltani. vouchers about with me ; but that, as far as I could from bondmen, who were undoubtedly recollect, all that I had said was on the ground of Du Cange indeed refers to Quon. Attach. But it is Skene's authority. I was not a little surprised to with a very different view from that apparently im- term hunbandus learn, that, on this slender ground, he had, a day or puted to him. It is to show that the two afterwards, used the language above quoted, in is put pro agricola. He says, in Legibus Inae /<*- his application to the Court of Session. banda sumitur pro agricola, ut et husbandus in Quon. I did not think this worthy of notice. But I after- Attach., c. 23, et in statutis Willelmi Regis Scotiae, &c. wards found that the same liberty had been taken in But he has not one word concerning the Hereyeld. of the House Lords. In the Respondent's Case, at True, it is, that Skene speaks of the husbandman's referred to. least, the following passage occurs : "But the Appel- subjection to this assessment in the place lant opened another battery. It appears from Sir But it ought to be observed here, that this very sub- John Skene, in his treatise De, Verborum Signiflcatione, jection involves a proof that he who had a husband- ' that a husband-land is only six acres of sok and syith land was in a state superior to that supposed. The land.' A learned gentleman, Dr. Jamieson, in a valu- phrase, his best aucht, could not be well applied to a able Dictionary of the Scottish language, which he has man, who, as Sibbald, (on whose authority considerable lately published, has, indeed, stated the extent of a stress is laid in the Petition,) has fancifully supposed, " " husband-land at 26 acres had but a ox. It seems to have been ; but, the Appellant says he single common, is mistaken." P. 9. he says, (vo. Dawache), "for eight husbandmen to club Matters being thus represented, it seemed necessary an ox a piece to make up this formidable draught." that I should re-examine of the extent of ane the subject ; resolved to cor- In the account here given rect any error, as soon as I should discover it. The dawach of land, it is made to be four oxengang only. result of my investigation, I shall beg leave to give in This is founded on what Skene himself has said, vo. the Memoranda taken at the time. But in a later work he seems to correct " Herreyelda. In the it is said a or davata to be four Petition, p. 4, ; An oxengate was his mistake, making dawach the fourth part of a ploughgate, or the work of a plough ploughs, as in the words quoted above. He adds, that drawn by four oxen." But a team is under- others make these double to com- generally " ploughs, equal eight stood to have consisted of This is local use or custom must eight oxen. the mon ones ; subjoining, But express assertion of Skene. Apud priscos Scotos, ane be attended to." And it can easily be proved beyond Dawach of land, quod continet quatour aratra terrae, a doubt, that a davata terrae consisted of four ploughs "four ploughs of land," quorum unumquodque tra- at least. hitur octo bobus, "of which ploughs each is drawn by In what I have said, vo. Husbandland, I quoted from eight oxen." Not. ad Quon. Att., c. 23. the second edition of Skene, De Verb, tiiyn., A. 1599, It is also said that "a ploughgate, according to in which the words "twentie sex aikers," in full, appear Spelman, is as much arable land as a plough can plough twice. the during year, viz., fifty -two acres, or four oxengates Having observed that, in Murray of Glendook's or oxgangs, but in general it is only estimated at forty edition of this work, the Arabic character 6 is sub- acres/' V. Petition. stituted for "twentie-sex" in Edit. 1599; and sup- in the article that Sibbald from Spelman, quoted (vo Bovata), says ; posing must have quoted Glendook, Octo bovatae terrao faciuut carucatam still found at a loss to account for the " terrae, i.e., I myself Eight oxengates make a ploughland." For he ex- reason of the variation. For, although it could easily carucata plains by the very phrase, "a ploughland." be supposed that the figure 2, preceding the 0, might to carucata " According Skene, terrae is alsmeikle an have dropped out in the press, it was scarcely sup- or portion measure of land, as may be tilled and poseable that such an error could have occurred laboured within yeir and daie be ane pleuch." De where the same phrase was twice printed at full Verb. Sign. vo. Carrncata. Spelman says that in Con- length. I am now, however, enabled to account for the a carucate contained 120 acres at an difference in Glendook naught average ; a way perfectly satisfactory. "which he number," adds, "with our ancestors also had given his reprint of the work De Verb. Siijn. from seems to have been sometimes et potior, Domesdeio Skene's first ed. of 1597 ; and in this the Husbandland frequentior. It was various, however, as the soil was is limited to six acres. But, from the use of the lighter or heavier." Arabic numeral, this was most probably an error of the Du it is Cange, said, "classes the ffusbandut as a press, in consequence of 26 being written, indistinctly cottar or bondsman, and refers to Quon. Attach, as perhaps, in the author's MS. This seems the most describing a husbandman as one liable to pay Herre- reasonable way of accounting for the remarkable change yeld." Petit., p. 5. But Du Cange could never have in the edit, of 1599, in which we read twentie sexia full. supposed that the words, quoted by him, could in any But to what cause soever this error may be imputable, future time have been so strangely interpreted. For that it lay in the use of six for twenty-six, I am able they are merely a quotation from Madox, who, in his to show by incontrovertible evidence. Having con- the Formularia, gives following extract from the sulted my friend Thomas Thomson, Esq., Deputy Testament of John de Nevill, A. 13S6. Item, dum Registrar, on the subject, who certainly has no rival in HUS [648] HUS

matters of this kind, he obligingly returned to me the ius, 0. E. Huisher is undoubtedly the same. It is fre- following answer, which, with all who know his ac- quently used by Ben Jonson, in the sense of usher. curacy and fidelity, must for ever fix the true reading One of the characters in his Sad Shepherd is the Huisher of the : the Bower. passage " of Chart. Sq., June 10, 1823. "MY DEAR SIB, The Edition of Skene D. V. S. [HUSCHLE, s. Same as HURSCHLE, of 1597 (followed by that of Glendook, &c.) gives 6 HIRSCHLE, q. v. aikcrs as the contents of a Husbandland erroneously. Huschle a softer sound or noise than I have a copy of the acts 1597, a very fine one, pre- implies Hurschlf ; and a softer sound than sented by Skene to Sir D. Lindsay of Edzell, in which, Hurchle, Hirschle.] with his own hand, various typographical errors are corrected and the one in s. A state of ; among others, question. In [HUSCHLE-MUSCHLE, great another copy, in the Auchinleck Library, I found the confusion, Banffs.] same corrections, also in the hand-writing of Sir J. Skene. Yours, &c. [To HUSCHLE-MUSCHLE, v. a. To put into " THO. THOMSON." a state of great confusion or hopeless com- Skene has himself acknowledged, on the ground of the variations that occurred in the territorial assess- plication, ibid.] ments, that he found "na certaine rule prescrived" An intens. form of anent the quantity and valour of ane husbandland. [HUSCHON, interj. V. HUSBAND-LAND. But there are different considera- HUSCH, q. v. Used also as a v., and as a tions which render it that Skene has the probable given s. Banffs.] more general mensuration. One is, that this is exactly the double of an ox-gait of land, which is thirteen acres. HUSE, Houlate, i. 24. Leg. hufe, as in MS. Besides, as Husband was the most honourable designa- Quhen thai consavit had the cas and the credence, tion conferred our ancestors on a farmer and by ; Be the herald in hall, hufe thai nocht ellis, husbandland seems evidently a correlate term, marking Bot bownis out of Babilon with all obedience. the of a farmer quantity ground usually possessed by ; i.e., They did not tarry on any account. V. HOVE, 1. it cannot easily be imagined that this should consist of six acres only. According to this idea it must be s. The a fish, S. V. that no tenant held an of this HUSH, Lump, supposed ox-gait land, and being viewed as more extensive than two husbandlands. BAGATY, COCK-PADDLE. If there were any who were tenants to this extent, To v. n. To rush. To hush in, to what, on this supposition was their designation, in HUSH, distinction from that of husband ? We can suppose rush in, to make one's way with force and that the latter term be in might occasionally applied haste, Loth. a loose sense to one who would now be called only a The sense of this term is in relation to the pendlcler. But we are not warranted hence to infer, primary of water ; to the out of a da m, that the term husbandm did not generally denote a rushing as, breaking Ettr. For. tenant whose farm was much larger. And, from what is said on the word Dawach, it appears that the very To HUSH in, v. a. To cause, to rush, to force passage, which has been so far misunderstood as to ibid. prove the occasion of error on this point, demonstrates forward, the very contrary of what has been supposed. s. of a The valuation of a husbandland affords another HUSH, A sudden bursting out water, strong presumption, that it could never be limited to gush, Ettr. For. six acres. For in one instance, A. 1545, it is taxed at Isl. hwiss-a, fremere fluidomm ; hwiss, fremitus five marks, in another at three pounds. Now, A. 1541, proruentis liquoris ; Haldorson. an oxgait is taxed at twenty shillings or one pound, which is only the third part of the lowest rate of an HUSH, s. Abundance, luxuriance, exuber- husbandland, ance, Roxb. fu' [HUSCH, HUSH, HYSCH, interj. A cry to Yes, yes, your stack-yards ye pang them, For outside shaw ye seldom wrang them. or drive birds ; used also as frighten away The only thing wi' you there's luck o', Is hush o' strae for muck o'. a s. S.J making A. Scott's Poems, p. 140. [To HUSCH, HUSH, HYSCH, v. a. 1. To drive If not from -Hush, to rush, allied perhaps to C. B. to away birds, ibid. hurys-aw, heap together.

2. To shout or cry in order to drive away, HUSH, s. A whisper, the slightest noise, ibid.] Ang.; a low murmuring wind, Orkn. and Shetl.; Whish, in other provinces. For origin [HUSCHIN', HUSHIN', HYSCHIN', part. pr. V. HWISH, s. Hence the phrase, Driving away, shouting in order to drive also as s. away. Used a s., ibid.] [HUSH-MUSH, A whispering, secret talking a Banffs.] HUSCHER, s. An usher. (of fama), The huscher he gaf the gold, [To HUSH-MUSH, v. n. To whisper in secret, It semed to a king. talk in a manner, ibid. The Sir Tristrem, p. 38, st. 59. suppressed is used as a ibid. Fr. huissier, id. from huis a door. Du Cange de- part. pr. generally s., rives htils from Germ, a house. But it seems hitys, HUSH NOR MUSH. Neither hush nor mush, rather a corr. of Lat. ost-ium, a door. As there can be no doubt that huissier is softened from L. B. hostiar- not a single whisper, Ang. V. MUSH. HUS [649] HUT

HUSIIIE OR WHISHIE. The slightest intima- According to Rudd., vox ex sono ficta. But it seems rather softened from A.-S. tion, in the most cautious manner, S. hriatlung, strepitus, hristl-an, given which Scren. derives from Su.-G. " strepere ; hrist-a, Ye maun excuse me, but Jeanie just my Lady, rist-a, quatere, as originally used, ho says, to denote ne'er let on huahie or whishie o' your visit, or I sud na the noise vo. Hustle. made by armour when shaken ; hae been aleepin." Saxon and Gael, i. 33. V. WHISH, s. HUSSYFSKAP, *. Housewifery. V. His- s. 1. An auld vessel or HUSHEL, hushel, any SIESKIP. machine that is worn out, Ang. A s. A fat woman 2. Applied also to a person who is out of [HUSTACK, big ; perhaps, order, or useless for work, Dumfr. haystack, Shetl. Isl. hey-stakkr, Dan. hos- tak, id. HUSHEL-BUSHEL, s. An uproar, Fife. A hushd-bushd suna began, HUSTER, HUISTER, g. An auld huister o' a And ilka chiel' ca'd oure his man. an old and housewife Ballad. quean, dirty ; supposed to include the idea of lasciviousness, Roxb. Teut. hutsel-en, quatere ? Perhaps rather corr. from the E. words hustle and bustle ; such a confusion Su.-G. huftra, conjux, tori socia. Ihre says, that it q. * the persons were hustling each other. is believed to be equivalent to "faithful to the house," from hux, domus, and tru, fidus. He prefers the idea v. a. lull a S. To HUSHIE, To child, O. of its being changed, for greater ease in pronunciation, V. HUZZH. from husfru, mistress of the house. He afterwards, however, rather overturns his theory, by observing HUSHION, s. A stocking without a foot, that even nowadays the distinction is kept up between the words two ; hufru being the designation of more an old stocking. honourable matrons, and hustru of the vulgar. In sup- But Willie's wife is nae sae trig, port of this remark, he quotes an ancient work, the She dights her grimyie wi' a hushion. Chronicon Rhythrnicum, in which the pride of the Swed- Burns, iv. 327. ish women is thus described ; "Their wives will not Dr. Currie as the "a but gave meaning cushion," be simply called Hustroer, but demand the designation he the sense for it is the has mistaken ; same word of Fru." with IIoeMn, a stocking without a foot, Ayrs. V. HOESHINS. To HUSTLE, v. n. To emit such a sound as an infant or does, when highly pleased ; HUSH-MUSH, adv. In a state of bustling a cat, when said to purr, Ang. disorder, Loth. Isl. hufisl-a, in aurum susurrare. This perhaps originally denoted a clandestine con- tinued like Su. -G. . is whispering ; hwigk-hvxtsk, susurrus, HUSTLE-FARRANT, One who clandestina eonsultatio vo. Hwiska ; (Ihre, Fick-Fack). clothed in a tattered Roxb., Loth. to garb, signifies whisper. " " From the E. v. to hustle ; to shake together in con- s. loose of " HUSHOCK, A quantity any fusion, and S. farrant, seeming. Dr. Johnson says, that hustle is from hurtle." But I thing," Gall. Encycl.; probably corr. from "perhaps corrupted would rather view it as a transposition of Teut. hutsel- E. hassock ; especially as Hussock is expl. " en, which has precisely the same meaning, quatere, a of ibid. lump hair," &c. (as under Hussil) ; Isl. hoss-a, to shake.

HUSHTER, s. V. HASHTER. HUSTO, HUSTA, interj. V. HOSTA.

s. of needle- 8. 1 . fat HUSSEY, HUZZIE, A sort HUT, A overgrown person ; also, for one who is indolent and inactive a book, used bv females holding thread, ; as, lazy &c., S. hut, Ang. " If I must I would wish it in hang, to be somewhat 2. A slattern, Clydes. a better rope than the string of a lady's huasey." Red- It have some affinity to Isl. hautt-a, to gauntlet, iii. 257. may perhaps 108. go to bed ; G. Andr., p. HUSSY-MAK, s. Apparently, what is usually HUT, s. 1. Or hand-hut ; a small stack built made by a housewife. in the field, so low that he who builds it can "Ane pair of schetis of ten elne of hussy mak, ane do all that is necessary, with his hand, half elne of new grene saltyn [sattin]." Aberd. Reg., while standing on the ground, S. 2. of kind a hut of a To HUSSIL, v. a. To move the clothes, A heap any ; as, snow, hut of a of laid out in particularly about the shoulders, like a per- dung, i.e., heap dung the South of son who is itchy, Teviotd. field, S., Clydes. This name is in Fife to what in Aberdeens. is Teut. hutsel-en, qnatere, concutere, succutere, quas- given termed a V. GAUT. sare ; from huts-er, id. gaut. Perhaps from Germ, hutte; Su.-G. hydda, E. hut, a . or from its resemblance or from Germ, HUSSILLING, A rattling clashing cottage, ; hut-en, noise. to cover. The hussilling of his armour did rebound, To v. a. To put in the field And kest ane terribil or ane fereful sound. HUT, up grain in a small S. Doug. Virgil, 436, 55. stack, VOL. II. K 4 HUT [050] HUT

HUT, s. A square basket formerly used in HUTHRAN, part. adj. A term combining the the ideas of haste and confusion with Galloway for carrying out dung to ; acting field of which the to let confused ibid. ; bottom opened haste, I'se be cloon wi' huthrcm the contents fall out ; Gallow. Now, fumle, As I'm aye unca redd to bumle. It receive this name, as allied to Germ. might V. HUDDEK, v. Pickeris Poems, 1788, p. 98. haut, hide, being perhaps originally formed of the skin an or to custodire. of animal, hut-en, servare, [HUTHERIN, HUTHRAN, s. The act of walk- Flandr. corbis dossuaria Fr. id. "a basket hotte, ; or in a awkward, unbe- to carry on the backe ;" Cotgr. ing working hasty, coming manner.] HUTCH, s. 1. A deep pool in a river under- neath an overhanging bank, Teviotd. HUTHER-MY-DUDS, s. A ragged person, a is rendered Fife Fr. huche pluteus. tatterdemallion, ; q. shake-my-rags. V. v. 1. and DUDS. 2. An embankment to hinder the water from HOWDER,

the soil, Teviotd.; Touk. washing away synon. HUTHER, s. A slight shower, or wetting HUTCH, s. 1. The kind of basket or small mist, S. 9. Hence the phrase, waggon, in which coals are brought from Its hutherin ; used when it does not rain constantly, but showers fall at intervals, S. B. hay- the mine, Lanarks., Renfr. slight synon. gerin. 2. A measure of coals, &c. The coal hutch Su.-G. hot-a, to threaten? is two Winchester bushels. HUTHERIN, s. 1. A beast between the "The price of these pyrites or copperas stones, by state of a cow and a calf, a heifer, old contract, was 2Jd. per hutch, of two hundred young Loth. weight." Agr. Surv. of Renfr., p. 26. Ang. we view it as the same with Perhaps may originally "Perhaps this is the origin of Hutherikin-lad, a rag- "Hots, a sort' of to carry turf or slate in; Durham." Grose. paniers ged youth, between boy and man ; North." Grose. Perhaps from Teut. huyder-en, turgescere uberibus, in which Fr. huche is used is as One of the senses sive mammis, ut vaccae foetui maturae, Kilian. This Chau- atub ; A.-S. hwaecca, area, "ahutch, dicitur de bestiarum signifying is from huyder, uber ; tantum cero wiche. area a corn- Corn-hwaecca, frumentaria, mammis. V. HUDDERIN. The term applied as an adj. hutch or chest Somner. ;" to a person, may have been transferred from the ap- pearance of a brute animal. HUTCH, s. 1. A small heap of dung, S. A. "Dung is emptied from carts into every third fur- 2. A stupid fellow, Orkney. V. HUDDERIN, row, in small heaps (or hutches), five or six of such and HUDDROUN. in horse cart the hutches being contained a single ; dung is then a fork from spread by three-pronged (or grape) 3. A mongrel sort of greens, raised from the the hutch, the furrow in which the hutch lies, and along seed of common and when the furrow on either side." Agr. Surv. Peeb., p. 140. greens cabbage, This extract relates to the turnip and potatoe hus- they grow too near to each other. A stalk bandry. or a of this description is called a hutherin, 2. small rick or stack of A temporary corn, hutherin stock, Fife. Ettr. For. HUTIE-CUITTIE, *. A copious draught HUTCHON, s. Supposed to be used for the of any intoxicating liquor, Roxb. name Hugh, Chr. Kirk. Ir. and Gael. Eogan A reduplicative term formed from Cuittie, q. v., a is viewed as the with Owen. same Welsh measure of liquids.

HUTHART, s. Apparently the name given ill-humoured, [HUTN-TRUTN," adj. Surly, to some daemon or familiar spirit. Shetl.] "In the myddis of the way there arose a woman of as The Yreland, that clepid herselfe a suthsayer. [HUTTER, s. A mass, a heap, Shetl.] which anone as she saw the Kyng, she cried with lowde voise, saying thus, 'My lord Kyng, and ye pase HUTTIS ILL. Some kind of disease. this water, yeshallneverturneayaneonlyve.' TheKyng kuttis ill. heryng this was astonyed of her wordis. Now the Ffluxis, hyvis, Roull's Gl. Coinpl. S., p. 330. Kynge askid her how shco knew that. And sheo said Cursing, that ffuthart told her so." MS. circ., A. 1440, Pink. " HUTTIT, Hated, disdained, abomin- Hist. Scot., I. 465, 466. adj. able, hideous, dreadful ;" Rudd. s. 1. Batiffs. [HUTHER, Unbecoming haste, Vnto this huttit monstoure, this Cacus, was Vulcanus. 2. A person who works or walks in an unbe- The god of fyre fader, Doug. Virgil, 247, 47. coming hasty manner, ibid. V. HUDDERIN.] Here there is no correspondent term in the original. But in where Alecto is called this huttit To HUTHER, v. n. 1. "To work confusedly," p. 227, 47, goddes, it is the version of invisum numen. Gl. Pickeii, Ayrs. Su.-G. hutta ut en, cum indignatione et contemptu in-

star canis uec non afficere ; hut, apage. [2. To walk in a clumsy, hurrying manner.] ejicere, probris HUT [651] StC

HUTTOCK, s. [HWDIS, g. pi. Hoods, Barbour, xix. 332, Of this nation?! I knew also anonc, Skeat's Ed. V. HUDE.] Oreit Kennedie and Dunbare yit undeid, And with ane huttock his Quintine on held. [HWFE, pret. of heave. Held up as spon- Police of Honour, ii. 17. sor, A.-S. hof, pret. of hebban. This may perhaps signify a cowl, as intimating that "Item, to the he hwfe Duncan he was a monk ; A.-S. hod, C. B. hotte. Germ, hut, King, quhen denotes a hat Forstaris sonnis barne, to put in caudil," Accts. L. H. however, ; Belg. hoed. The latter term Treas., Vol. also signifies a chaplet or garland. Might this be I., p. 120, Dickson.j meant as the emblem of his eminence as a ? poet hooks. Or huttock be two Fr. words a little HWICKIS, pi. Heaping may disguised," with the lord I lurch Ik: for q. haute toque, high cap. Cotgr. describes toque as a "Item, agreid 2000 hwictit for bonnet or cap, somewhat like our old courtier's velvet and 100 sythes sheiring and mawing." Acts Cha. cap." Ellis Spec. E. P. I. 398. V. Tokie, which still 1., Ed. 1814, vi. 25. denotes an antiquated female head-dress. HWINKLE-FACED, adj. Lantern-jawed, To HUVE. V. HOVE, 1. Orkn. ; perhaps q. having sharp corners, HUVE. V. HOIF. from Su.-G. hwinckel, an angle, a corner.

s. A Accts. L. To HUVE up, v. a. To lift or hold up. [HWNT-HALL, hunting lodge. " H. Vol. Than Marcius Fabius lap on the body of his dede Treas., I., p. 93, Dickson.] brethir, and h uvand up his targe forenent is his knichtis, HWRINKET, adj. Perverse, stubborn, said," &c. Bellend. T. Liv., p. 179. Objecta parma, Ayrs. Lat. Teut. wringh-en, torquere. A.-S. up-ahaef-an, up-hef-an, levare, erigere ; pret. HWKINKET, . Unbecoming language, ibid. vpahof, tiphof, levavit. Teut. op-heff-en. HY, *. Haste. [HUY, s. Thin hair, Shetl.] The Emperowre Lowys wyth gret hy The Lumbarddys gaddryd als fast s. A a hill the of [HUYA, height, ; name Til hym, and to Rome he past. an island near Unst, Shetl., Isl. hcew, Dan. Wyntown, vi. 6, 24. A.-S. Isl. inchoare. hcei, id.] Inge, diligentia, hey-a, agere, To HYANK, (y cons.), v. a. To cut in [HUYLLEE, . Applied to something that large slices to Ettr. For. V. does not ; synon. whang, justify appearances, Shetl.] QUHAING, v. HUZ, pron. The vulgar pronunciation of us That kind of colour in which in some counties, S. HYAUVE, adj. " ' black and white are combined, or appear al- He has na settled his account wi' my gudeman, the deacon, for this twalmonth.' 'Nor wi' huz for sax ternately; as, "a hyauve cow," Banffs. echoed Mrs months,' Shortcake. 'He's but a brunt When applied to the human head, it is crust.'" Antiquary, i. 318. needs synon. with lyart. "What we care about his subsistance, sae lang as he is asks naething frae huz, ye ken." Rob Roy, ii. This merely a provincial modification of Haw, 238. Haave, q. v. To v. n. " HUZLE, To wheeze ; as, A To v. n. To a " puir HYCHLE, walk, carrying huzlin bodie ; Berwicks. V. Roxb., burden with difficulty, Upp. Lanarks. WHAISLE. Apparently a variety of Hechle, v. But it may be To v. a. lull remarked that Isl. heigull is expl. Homuncio segnis; HUZZH, To a child, S., pron. and heik-ia, supprimere. with so strong a sibillation, that it cannot s. A V. properly be expressed in writing. [HYCHT, height. HICHT.] This at first view may appear to be the same with To v. n. 1. To to " HYCHT, HIGHT, trust, E. hush, to still, O. E. huste. I huste, I Je styll ; expect. repayse, je recoyse ;" Palsgraue. But I suspect, it is It is used like the modern I assure rather allied to Isl. ftoss-a, which conveys the same phrase, you. idea with the S. word. Molliter manibns jactito, ut This Schyr Eduuard, forsuth Ik hycht, nutrices infantes quassant, seu quassitant; Su.-G. Wes off his hand a noble knycht. hyss-a, Mod. Sax. husch-en, Isl. has, quassatio mollis. Barbour, ix. 480, Ma A.-S. Ic hihte, spero. HUZZH-BAAV, HUZZHIE-BAW, *. The term 2. To promise. generally used to a It is express lullaby. And Ik hycht her in leaut$,

also 1 1 the sound 1 1 usually employed in lulling Giff y (leys in this bataille, His but releff or a child, S. ayr, ward, taile, On the I'yrst day sail weld. For the origin of Baw. V. BALOW. Barbour, xii. 818, MS. Yet him more than art can well performe. HUZZIE, s. A hights contemptuous designation Hudson's Judith, p. 41. for a S. V. HISSIE. woman, V. HECHT, v. It may be added, that both v. and . seem to be still used in reference to prediction. V. s. HUZZIE, A needle-book. V. HUSSEY. Gl. Burns, in vo. HYC [652] HYK

adv. HYCHT, s. A promise, an engagement. [HYE, Loudly, ibid., xiv. 437.] Towart Ydymsy syne thai raid v. a. To to [To" HYE, heighten, exalt, ibid., Ane Irsche that aith had maid King, x. To Schyr Bduuard of fewte. 264.] Schyr Eduuard trowit in hys hycht ; s. The ibid., viii. And with hys rout raid thiddir rycht. [HYE-GATE, highway, 164.] Harbour, xiv. 335, MS. " To v. n. To move the sud- HYKE, " body To v. a. To V. HIGHT. the back Gall. HYGHT, promise. denly by joint ; Encycl. This seems synon. with Hitch, and from the same HYD AND HEW. Skin and skin complexion, source, Isl. hik-a, cedere, recedere, or hwik-a, titubare, and colour also or ; Hyd Hew. *. Hilts. Barbour, x. And me deliverit with [HYLTIS, pi. 682, delay, Skeat's Ane fair hackney, but hyd or hew, Ed.] For lerges of this new-yiar day. HYND wether. Stewart, Bann. Poems, p. 151. WEDDER. Perhaps, young She is sae bricht of hyd and hew. "Item, fra the Captain of Carrick, sexty-seven hyml 257. Ibid., p. loeMers." Depred. on the Clan Campbell, p. 17. "It's sae dirty, it '11 never come to hyd or hew." A-S. hind-cealf is hinnulus, a young hind or kid. Loth. HYND-WYND, adv. Straight, directly s. A the nearest often [HYDDILLIS, hiding place, Barbour, forward, way ; applied to v. 306. V. HIDDILLIS.] those who go directly to a place to which they are forbidden to go; as, "He went [HYDV1SLY, HYDWISLY, adv. Hideously, hynd-wynd to the apples, just after I for- horribly, Barbour, vii. 327, iv. 416.] bade him ;" Roxb. [HYDWiss, HYDWOUSS, adj. Hideous, terri- This seems a corr. transmission of C. B. ynion, direct or of a a combined ble, Barbour, v. 2, x. 594.] straight, ; hynt, way, course, with iawn, right. HYDROPSIE, s. The old name for the [HYNDER, . Hinderance. V. HINDER.] Dropsy in S. s. 1. A "Hydrops, aqua intercus, hydropsie." Despaut. HYNE, person. Eoery hyne, every Gram., A. 12, a. "Intercus, morbus inter cutem individual. latens, Ibid., C. b. hydropsie." 1, Be this, as all the pepil euery hyne Mr. Todd has inserted this that it word, observing The feist continewit fully dayis nyne, is for "personified by Thomson the dropsy." But I The stabill aire has calmyt wele the se, do not find that it has been ever used by E. writers. And south pipand windis fare on hie Thomson appears to use it in his Castle of Indolence, Challancis to pass on burd, and tak the depe. as a vernacular word which he probably heard in his Doug. Virgil, 153, 30. own country, or at least had been familiar with in the Gens omnis, Virg. vocabulary. Rudd. has overlooked this, which seems the primary sense of the word, corresponding to Su.-G. hion, in- HY-JINKS, s. A very absurd mode of dividuum humanum, persona. Some derive the latter from Alem. hihun, which properly signifies a husband drinking, by throwing the dice in order to or wife. The origin is rather Isl. hiu, familia, from determine shall who empty the cup. Moes-G. heiwa, domus, familia. A.-S. lame has some in Aften in Maggy's at hy-jinks, analogy signification, as it denotes one of the same We guzzled scuds. family. i. 216. Ramsay's Works, 2. a without A young man, stripling ; regard From the description there of it in a it given note, to distinction of rank. appears to be materially the same with the drunken game called Whigmaleerie, a. v. Waltre Steward of Scotland syne, ' ' Under the direction of a venerable eompotator, That than was bot a berdles hyne, Come with a rout of noble who had shared the sports and festivity of three men, That men be contynence ken. generations, the frolicsome company had begun to prac- mycht xi. 217, MS. tise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High- Barbour, Jinks. This was in several different 3. servant one in game played ways. A ; properly, employed Most the dice were thrown the frequently by company, rustic labour, S. hind, E. and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious Hyne is the orthography of the 0. E. word. Puck- is called the witch Maudlin's character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine hairy hine or servant. B. Jonson's verses in a particular order. If they departed from Sad Shepherd. the characters assigned, or if their memory proved Ill instantly set all my hines to thrashing recke treacherous in the repetition, they incurred forfeits, Of a whole of come, which I will hide Under which were either compounded for by swallowing au the ground. additional or a small sum towards Every Man out of his Humour. bumper, by paying " the reckoning." Guy Mannering, ii. 264, 265. Their falles escheits sometimes be pasturing of beastes in the heretage of any Lorde custumably, af- [HYE, adj. High; proud, Barbour, ix. 85, ter the custome of that Lordship, be multiplication, or Skeat's Ed. mauynes of Hynes, or of Hirdes them keipand, and ; hye" and law, wholly, entirely, haldand, quhilk beastes may be made escheit." x. ibid., 471.] Baron Courts, c. 61, 1. HYN [653] HYP

In S. it is now restricted to a farm-servaut, an dis- HYPALT, HYPPALD, s. 1. A cripple, Roxl>. from one employed in the house, or in " tinguished How could we turn our hand wi' our pickle hoggs tending cattle. " i' winter, if their big foggage war a' riveu up by the The circumstances of the country are such as to auld raikin hypalls ere over a smeary's cluto clattered reward the toil of the hinds, or labourers, in this out?" Brownie of Bodsbeck, i. 139. parish, with a very liberal share of the produce of the lands." P. Berw. Statist. xvi. 493. Legerwood, Ace., 2. "A strange-looking fellow," Roxb. V. A.-S. hine, famulus, servus, Su.-G. hion, Alem. hien, HYPLE. hi/en, heyen, id. 3. " as the effect of some dis- 4. A peasant. A sheep, which, throws her There was ane ancient ciet6, hecht Cartage, ease, fleece," Ayrs. Quham hynia of Tire held in heritage. 4. or starved a Doug. Virgil, 13, 24. A lean, old, horse, Rosinante, Coloni, Virg. Roxb. The term, as previously signifying a servant, is are ibid. transferred to a peasant, as in former times all the 5. An animal whose legs tied, cultivators of the soil were bondmeu. A.-S. hine-man, is or agricola, colonus. HYPALL, s. One who hungry, very voracious, Ettr. For. HYNE, adv. 1. Hence, S. hine, Cumb. That port of Italy is ane fer way hyne, [HYPE, s. A big common-looking person.] (Juhilk is preuidit your kyn be Appollyne. Doug. Virgil, 84, 23. HYPLE, HEYPAL, . 1. A fellow with Hyne far awa, is a phrase still commonly used in loose tattered clothes, Dumfr. Gall. Ang., as signifying, far hence, at a great distance. a Hyne awa, far away, far off, S. B. This, although nearly resembling Hypalt, word is used in a sense ffyne to, or till, as far as, to the distance of, Aberd. of a neighbouring county, (Roxb.), This term is used in one phrase, as if it were a quite different from any of the acceptations of the substantive signifying departure. A merry hyne to ye, other. C. B. hwy signiBes long, and pal, a spread, or is a mode of bidding good bye to one, when the speaker spreading out. Isl. hypill, however, is rendered, ves- is in ill to off et levis from textura humour; as equivalent "Pack with tis ampla, rudis, ; hypia, ampla V. JYPLE. you," Aberd. et rudis ; Haldorson.

2. It seems to be used as a 2. Referring to the eternal state, as contrasted general expression of the Gall. with the present. greatest contempt, was as mean a as e'er Gif thow to mennis lawis assent, He hyple graced fools, a wratch nane ere knew. Aganis the Lordis commandement, And hatefu'er Gall. As Jeroboam and mony mo, Encycl., p. 176. Assentaris to idolatrie ; s. 1. Quhilkis puneist war richt piteouslie, HYPOTHEC, HYPOTHEQUE, Formerly And sa from than- realmes were rutit out, equivalent to annual-rent. Sa sail thow be withoutin dput ; "These annuities, or of annual-rent, are Baith her and hyne withoutin moir, rights called in the French Even after tbe And want the everlasting gloir, law, hypot/teijites. the of the Canon law Lyndsay's Warkis, 159:2, p. 273. Information, when prohibition con- A.-S. was no longer of force in Scotland, these rights Belg. heen, heenen, away ; heonan ; Germ, hin, tinued in use for more than a century," &c. Ersk. hinnen ; Su.-G. haen, hence ; Moes-G. hindana, hindar, sec. 5. trans. lust., B. ii., T. ii., Fro. Acts Ja. from hyne-furth occurs, III., i.e., 2. A or for of henceforward. pledge legal security payment rent or S. Moes-G. hindar, A.-S. hiiulan, Teut. hinden, post. money due, " The landlord's hypothec over the crop and stocking v. a. the [To HYNG, To hang ; part. pa. hynyit, of his tenants is a tacit legal hypothec provided by landlord over the hung. V. HiNG.] law itself. It gives a security to the crop of each year for the rent of that year, and over cattle and on the farm for the current [To HYNK, v. n. V. HINK.] the stocking year's rent," &c. Bell's Law Diet, in vo. and docu- "As we hold your rights, title-deeds, Seized, Harbour, ii. [HYNT, pret. caught, ments in shall have no objection to give rea- 415. hypothec, sonable time, say till the next money term." An- A.-S. hentan, to seize. V. HINT.] tiquary, iii. 258. or Fr. hypoiheque, "an engagement, mortgage, Lat. s. An herb. pawning of an immoveable ;" C'otgr. hypothera, HYNTWORTHE, v. Gr. nducia, from the irroTiffri/M ; in i/iroflTJ/o;, obligatip, And principio, sought out syne, another. q. that thing which is placed under Halie water, and the lamber beidis, HynLwmthe, and fourtie vther weidis. a To HYPOTHECATE, v. a. To pledge ; Legend, Bp. St. Androis, Poems Sixteenth Cent., p. 319. forensic S. If there be no error here, the first syllable may be term, from A.-S. a or that each hynth, damnum, detrimentum ; q. wort, "The rule in regard to the crop is, crop herb of a noxious quality. stands hypothecated to the landlord for the rent of that year of which it is the crop." Bell, ubi sup. "to or ;" To HYPAL, v. n. To go lame, Roxb. Fr. hypot/ietju-er ; pawne, engage, mortgage L. B. hypothec-are, hypotec-are, oppignerare, obligare ; [HYPALT, HYPPALD, adj. Lame, crippled.] Gr. inrorieijiu, suppono ; oppignero. HYft [054] HYV

s. the curlie-headed varlets ! I must HYRALD, The same with Herreyelde, "0, come to play at Blind Harry and Hy Spy with them." Man- q. v. Guy nering, iii. 355. This seems the same with s. Harry-Racket, or Hoop HYRCHOUNE, (eh hard) A ; hedgehog and Hide, as described Strutt, 285. The S. hurchin. by Sports, p. station which in E. is called Home is here the Den, As ane hyrchoune, all his rout and those who keep it, or are the seekers, are called Gert set owt all speris about, the Ins. Those who hide themselves, instead of crying Harbour, xii. 353, MS. Hoop as in E., cry Hy Spy ; and they are denominated E. the Outs. The business of hurchin. Juniua refers to Fr. herisson, Lat. the Ins is, after the signal erinac-eus. Lye views the E. word as contr. from is given, to lay hold of the Outs before they can reach Arm. the Den. The then heureuchin, id. captive becomes one of the Ins ; for the of the honour game consists in the privilege of [HYREGANG, s. In hyregang, as paying hiding one's self. as a tenant. V. under Hy is still used in calling after a person, to excite rent, HIRE, v. a.] attention, or when it is wished to warn him to get out of the way, S., like ho, E. eho, Lat., whether as HYRONIUS, adj. [Erroneous.] signi- fying to hasten, I shall not attempt to determine. With sackles heir is Mud, qiihilk shed, is merely the E. v. a summons to look So are their haill Spy containing placis orespred out for those who have hid themselves. Lamentabill to tell : Ane maist pepill hyronius, HYTERIN, s. 1. Confusion, Rustick, ignare and rud. [HYTER, ruin, Banffs. urel't Pilgr., Watson's Coll., ii. 39. nonsense, s. A 2. The act of a [HYESALE, multitude, throng. V. walking with weak, tottering HlRSELL.] step, or working in a weak, confused man- ner, ibid. HYRSETT, s. The payment of burrow 3. mails for one year, as the condition on which A weak, stupid person, ibid.] a new-made continued to his burgess enjoy [HYTER, HYTERIN, adj. Weak, stupid, un- privilege, his is not built although property skilful, ruined, ibid.] upon. V. KIRKSETT. [HYTER, HYTER-STYTER, v. n. To walk The reason of this law appears from another, ac- to which no with ibid. cording man could continue to enjoy the weak, tottering step, ; part. pr. of a than a privileges burgess longer year, unless he hyterin, hyterin-styterin, used also as a s. had "ane land " inhabit, and streny eable, i.e., ground built and such as upon, might be liable to be seized [HYTE-STYTE. 1. As a s. ; arrant nonsense, on for his debt. " stupidity, Banffs. Quhen ane man is made one new burgess, haueand na land inhabit, he may haue respit, or continuation 2. an As adj.; silly, stupid, like one mad, for payment of his burrow mailes for ane yeare, quhilk ibid. is called hyrsett," Burrow Lawes, c. 29, 1. A.-S. hyre, merces, and sett-an, Su.-G. collocare, 3. As an adv. as if ibid. or A.-S. ; stupidly, mad, saett-a, seta, Su.-G. saete, incola, q. one who inhabits for money. 4. As an interj.; an exclamation of disbelief or [HYSE, s. 1. A vaunt, a cock-and-bull disassent, ibid.] story. Clydes., Aberd. adv. [HYTER-STYTER, With weak tottering 2. A a in a state of practical joke, trick, rough amuse- step, ruin, S.] ment, ibid., Banffs. [HYUCK-FINNIE (nn pron. liquid), adj. 3. wild Uproar, riot, ibid.] Lucky, fortunate, Shetl.] v. n. To to ibid. v. n. To or [To HYSE, romp, play tricks, ; [To" HYVER, saunter, lounge, part. pr. hysin, hysan, used as a s. idle, Shetl.]

SPY. s. HY A game resembling Hide and Seek, [HYVERAL, A lounger, an idle, lazy per- but in a different ibid. same as Fr. played manner, Roxb. son, ; flaneur.]