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HABITUDE, sub.
condition of body HACK, v. i. to grow common HAGGARD, sub. a wild hawk HAIR, sub. nature, texture HALF-CHECKED BIT, mutilated, of which only one part remained HALL, interj. a hall! a cry to make room for dancers HAND-FAST, sub. a contract, betrothal; custody HANDY-DANDY, a game in which an object is passed from one to another, HANGMAN BOYS, young rascals HAPPELY, or HAPPILY} adv. perchance HARDIMENTS, sub. feats of arms and valour HARLOT, adj. base (harlot king) HARLOTRY, sub. a harlot; a silly wench HARROW, v. t. to disquiet, to distract HARRY, v. t. to vex, to harry HATCH, sub. a half door HAUGHT, adj. haughty HAUNCH, sub. the rear, latter end HAVOC, interj. to cry 'havoc!' signifies to give no quarter HAWKING, adj. hawk-like HAY, sub. a circular dance;an exclamation used by a fencer when he hits his adversary [It. hai! 'You have it!'] HEAD, sub. an armed force; source HEAD-LUGGED, part. adj. dragged by the ears,savage HEAP, sub. company of persons HEARTED, pt.p. placed or rooted in the heart HEAT, v. t. to run over, traverse HEAVES, sub. deep sighs HEBONA, sub. a word of doubtful meaning; the yew, ebony, and henbane have all been suggested [Fr. hebenon] HECTIC, sub. a fever HEDGE, v. i. to skulk HEDGE-PRIEST, sub. clergyman of the lowest order HEEL, v. t. to dance HEFTS, sub. heavings HELM, v. t. to steer HELPLESS, adj. incurable; useless, unprofitable HENCHMAN, sub. a page HENT, v. t. to seize, take; sub. hold, seizure HERBLETS, sub. small herbs HERB OF GRACE, rue HERCULES AND HIS LOAD, the Globe theatre, from its sign HERMIT, sub. a beadsman HESTS, sub. commands HEWGH, sub. a sound to represent the whizzing of an arrow HIDE FOX, AND ALL AFTER, the game of hide and seek HIGH AND LOW, kinds of false dice HIGH-BATTLED, adj. at the head of a victorious army HIGH-DAY, adj. holiday HIGH LONE, adj. alone, on one's own feet, a term of the nursery HIGHT, pt. p. is called HIGH-VICED, adj. conspicuously wicked HILDING, sub. a menial; adj. base HIP. TO CATCH ON, have in one's power; a wrestling or hunting phrase HIPPED, pt.p. hurt in the hips HIREN, sub. Irene, name of the heroine in a lost drama by Pecle HIT TOGETHER, v. agree or act together HIVE, sub. a kind of bonnet HOAR, v. t. to make white, as with leprosy HOBBY-HORSE, sub. a principal part in the morris dance; a light woman HODGE-PUDDING, sub. perhaps a haggis HOLDING, sub. a burthen of a song; congruity, sense HOLIDAME, sub. halidom, holiness, HOLY-ALES, sub. rural festivals HONEYING, pr. p. fondling HONEY-STALKS, sub. clover HOODMAN, sub. the person blinded in the game of blind man's buff HOODMAN-BLIND, sub. blind man's buff, HORN-MAD, adj. mad like a savage bull [quibbling] HOROLOGE, sub. a clock HOST, v. i. to lodge HOT AT HAND, not to be held in, H0T-HOUSE, sub. a bagnio HOX, v. t. to hough, to hamstring HOY, sub. a small coasting vessel HUGGER-MIGGER, IN, secretly, with hurried secrecy HULL, v. i. to float HULLING, pr. p. floating at the mercy of the waves HUNT, sub. game killed in the chase HUNTS-UP, sub. tunes to arouse the huntsman HURLY, and HURLY-BURLY, sub. tumult, uproar HURRICANO, sub. waterspout HURTLESS, adj. harmless HURTLING, sub. a clashing noise HURTLE, v. i. to come together with noise HUSBANDRY, sub. management, HYEN, sub. an hyæna |