Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: H-Words
H-Words
by Robert Burns
- 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.
Source:
The Poetical Works Of Robert BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd