H

Ha'

Hall.

Ha' Bible

The great Bible that lies in the hall.

Haddin'

House, home, dwelling-place, a possession.

Hae, ha'en

To have, to accept; haven.

Haet, fient haet

A petty oath of negation; nothing.

Haffet

The temple, the side of the head.

Hafflins

Nearly half, partly, not fully grown.

Hag

A gulf in mosses and moors, moss ground.

Haggis

A kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow or sheep.

Hain

To spare, to save, to lay out at interest.

Hain'd

Spared; hain'd gear, hoarded money.

Hairst

Harvest.

Haith

A petty oath.

Haivers

Nonsense, speaking without thought.

Hal', or hald

An abiding place.

Hale, or haill

Whole, tight, healthy.

Halesome

Healthful, wholesome.

Hallan

A particular partition wall in a cottage, or more properly a seat of turf at the outside.

Hallowmass

Hallow eve, the 31st of October.

Haly

Holy; haly-pool, holy well with healing qualities.

Hame

Home.

Hammered

The noise of feet like the din of hammers.

Han', or haun', han's breed

Hand; hand's breadth.

Han'-afore's

The foremost horse on the left hand in the plough.

Han'-ahins

Hindmost.

Hanks

Thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, etc.

Hansel-throne

Throne when first occupied by a king.

Hap

An outer garment, mantle, plaid, etc.; to wrap, to cover, to hap.

Hap-shackled

When a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together to prevent leaping, he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife is called the kirk's hap-shackle.

Happer

A hopper, the hopper of a mill.

Hap-step-an'-loup

Hop-step-and-leap.

Harigals

Heart, liver, and lungs of an animal.

Harkit

Hearkened.

Harn

A very coarse linen.

Hash

A fellow who knows not how to dress nor act with propriety.

Hast

Hastened.

Haud

To hold.

Haughs

Low-lying rich lands, valleys.

Haurl

To drag, to pull violently.

Haurlin'

Tearing off, pulling roughly.

Haver-meal

Oatmeal.

Haveril

A half-witted person; half-witted, one who habitually talks in a foolish or incoherent manner.

Havins

Good manners, decorum, good sense.

Hawkie

A cow, properly one with a white face.

Heapit

Heaped.

Hearse

Hoarse.

Heather

Heath.

Hech

Oh, strange, an exclamation during heavy work.

Hecht

Promised; to foretell something that is to be got or given; foretold, the thing foretold; offered.

Heckle

A board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs upright for dressing hemp, flax, etc.

Hee balou

Words used to soothe a child.

Heels-owre-gowdie

Topsy turvy, turned the bottom upwards.

Heeze

To elevate, to rise, to lift.

Hellim

The rudder or helm.

Herd

To tend flocks, one who tends flocks.

Herriet

Sold out.

Herry

To plunder; most properly to plunder birds' nests.

Herryment

Plundering, devastation.

Hersel',hirsel'

Herself; a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.

Hessel

So many cattle as one person can attend.

Het

Hot, heated.

Heugh

A crag, a ravine; coal heugh, a coal pit; lowin heugh, a blazing pit.

Hilch, hilchin'

To halt, halting.

Himsel'

Himself.

Hiney

Honey.

Hing

To hang.

Hirple

To walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.

Histie

Dry, chapt, barren.

Hitcht

A loop, make a knot.

Hizzie

Hussy, a young girl.

Hoast

Cough.

Hoble

Totter.

Hoddin'

The motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse.

Hoddin'-grey

Woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones.

Hoggie

A two-year-old sheep.

Hog-score

A distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of, A hog, a hog, and it is removed.

Hog-shouther

A kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to justle.

Hoodie-craw

A blood crow, corbie.

Hool

Outer skin or case, a nutshell, pea husk.

Hoolie

Slowly, leisurely.

Hoord

A hoard, to hoard.

Hoordit

Hoarded.

Horn

A spoon made of horn.

Hornie

One of the many names for the devil.

Host, or hoast, hostin'

To cough; coughing.

Hotch'd

Hitched, turned topsy-turvy, blended, mixed.

Houghmagandie

Loose behaviour.

Housie

Diminutive of house.

Hove, hoved

To heave, to swell.

Howdie

A midwife.

Howe

Hollow, a hollow or dell.

Howebacki

Sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.

Howff

A house of resort, a hiding-place.

Howk

To dig.

Howkin'

Digging deep.

Howkit

Digged.

Howlet

An owl.

Hoy, hoy't

To urge, urged.

Hoyse

A pull upwards.

Hoyte

To amble crazily.

Huchyalled

To move with a hilch.

Hughoc

Diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.

Hums and hankers

Mumbles, and seeks to do what he cannot perform.

Hunkers

Kneeling, and falling back on the hams.

Hurcheon

A hedgehog.

Hurdies

The loins, the crupper.

Hushion, or hoshen

A cushion, also an old stocking, with the foot, or sole of the foot, worn out.