Glossary.
Letter H
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- HACK
- to become common
- HAGGARD
- a wild or unreclaimed hawk
- HAG-SEED
- seed or offspring of a hag
- HAIR
- course, order, grain
- HALIDOM
- holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship; used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'
- HALL
- an open space to dance in
- HALLOWMAS
- All Hallows' Day
- HAP
- chance, fortune
- HAPPILY
- accidentally
- HANDSAW
- perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern
- HARDIMENT
- defiance, brave deeds
- HARLOCK
- charlock, wild mustard
- HARRY
- to annoy, harass
- HAUGHT
- haughty
- HAUNT
- company
- HAVING
- property, fortune
- HAVIOUR
- behavior
- HAY
- a term in fencing
- HEADY
- violent, headlong
- HEAT
- of 'to heat,' heated
- HEBENON
- henbane
- HEFT
- a heaving
- HEFT
- furnished with a handle: hence,
- metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed
- HELM
- to steer, manage
- HENCE
- henceforward
- HENCHMAN
- a page or attendant
- HENT
- to seize, take
- HERMIT
- a beadsman, one bound to pray for another
- HEST
- command
- HIGH
- used in composition with adjectives to heighten or emphasize their signification, as, high- fantastical
- HIGHT
- called
- HILD
- held
- HILDING
- a paltry fellow
- HINT
- suggestion
- HIREN
- a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'
- HIT
- to agree
- HOISE
- to hoist, heave up on high
- HOIST
- hoisted
- HOLP
- to help; helped
- HOME
- to the utmost
- HONEST
- chaste
- HONESTY
- chastity
- HONEY-STALKS
- the red clover
- HOODMAN-BLIND
- the game now called blindman's-buff
- HORN-MAD
- probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad
- HOROLOGE
- a clock
- HOT-HOUSE
- a brothel
- HOX
- to hamstring
- HUGGER-MUGGER
- secresy
- HULL
- to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship
- HUMOROUS
- fitful, or, perhaps, hurried
- HUNT-COUNTER
- to follow the scent the wrong way
- HUNTS-UP
- a holla used in hunting when the game was on foot
- HURLY
- noise, confusion
- HURTLE
- to clash
- HURTLING
- noise, confusion
- HUSBANDRY
- frugality
- Management
- HUSWIFE
- a jilt