Glossary

The following is taken from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:

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• HA', s. a hall.
• HAAFLANG, HAFLIN, adj. half-grown.
• HAAR, s. a fog; a chill easterly wind.
• To HABBER, v. n. to stutter.
• HA-BIBLE, s. a large family Bible.
• HABBLE, s. a scrape; a perplexity.
• HACK, s. a chop in the hands or feet.
• To HAE, v. to have.
• HAE, v. n. to offer anything.
• HAEIN, s. having.
• HAENA, have not.
• HALF-MERK-MARRIAGE, a clandestine marriage. From the price paid, viz. a merk.
• HAFFIT, s. the side of the head.
• To HAG, v. a. to hew wood.
• HAGABAG, s. coarse table-linen.
• HAGBUT, s. a kind of firearms used soon after the discovery of gunpowder.
• HAGGIES, HAGGIS, s. a pudding made of a lamb's maw, lungs, heart, and liver, mixed with suet, onions, salt, pepper, and oatmeal, and boiled in the stomach of a sheep.
• HAILSOME, adj. wholesome; healthful.
• To HAIN, HANE, v. a. to spare; to save.
• HAIR-MOULD, s. the mould which appears on bread. Hair-ryme, hoar-frost.
• HAIRST, s. harvest.
• HAIRUMSKARUM, adj. harebrained.
• To HALD, v. a. to hold; to cease.
• HALE, HAILL, adj. whole; unbroken.
• HALF-MARROW, s. a husband or wife.
• HALLACH'D, HALLAKET, adj. crazy, boisterous; extremely frolicsome.
• HALLANSHAKER, s. a sturdy beggar; a person of shabby appearance.
• HALLAN, HALLON, HALLOND, HALLIN, s. a mud wall in cottages, extending from the front backwards, to shelter the interior of the house from the draft of the door when open.
• HALLOWE'EN, s. the evening before Allhallows.
• HALLOKIT, adj. giddy; harebrained.
• HALLOCK, s. a thoughtless, giddy girl.
• HALS, HAWSE, s. the neck.
• HALY, adj. holy.
• HAME, HAIM, s. home.
• HAMELY, adj. familiar; friendly.
• HANDSEL, s. the first money received for goods; a gift on the first Monday after New Year's Day.
• HANDSEL-MONDAY, s. the first Monday of the new year.
• HANK, s. a coil.
• HANTLE, s. a considerable number.
• To HAP, v. a. to cover; to conceal.
• HAP-STEP-AN'-LOUP, v. a. to hop, step, and leap.
• HARIGALDS, s. the pluck of an animal.
• HARN, s. coarse linen cloth made from the tow-hards.
• HARNES, s. brains.
• HASH, s. a sloven.
• HASSOCK, HASSICK, s. a besom; a large round turf used as a seat. HATE, HAIT, HAID, s. a whit; an atom; the smallest bit of anything. Fient a haid hae I i' the house, I have not a particle of anything in the house.
• HATHER, HEATHER, s. heath.
• HAUGH, HAWCH, HAUCH, s. low-lying flat ground.
• To HAUP, v. n. to turn to the right, applied to horses in the yoke. He will neither haup nor wind, he will neither turn to the right nor left; a stubborn man.
• To HAVERS, v. n. to talk foolishly.
• HAVERS, s. foolish, incoherent talk, or idle talk.
• HAVERIL, s. one who habitually talks idly.
• To HAWGH, v. n. to force up phlegm; to hawk.
• HAWKIT, adj. having a white face--applied to cattle.
• HAWKEY, s. a cow with a white face.
• HAWSE, s. the throat.
• HEARTSOME, adj. merry; light-hearted.
• HEARTY, adj. cheerful; liberal.
• HEATHER-BELLS, s. heath-bells.
• HECH, s. an exclamation.
• HECK, s. a rack for cattle.
• To HECKLE, v. a. to dress flax; to examine with severity.
• HEGH-HEY, HEIGH-HOW, an interjection expressive of languor or fatigue.
• HEIL, HEYLE, s. health; in health.
• HEIS, HEESE, v. a. to lift up.
• HEMPY, s. a rogue.
• HENDER, adj. past; bygone. Henderend, the back end.
• HEREAWAY, adv. in this quarter.
• HERISON, s. a hedgehog.
• HERRIE, v. a. to rob; to pillage.
• HERRIE-WATER, s. a net made with meshes of a small size, such as used by poachers.
• HESP, s. a clasp; a book.
• HET, adj. hot.
• HETFUL, adj. hot; fiery.
• HET-PINT, s. a hot beverage carried by persons to the house of their friends early in the morning of New Year's Day, composed of ale, whisky, and eggs.
• HEUCH, HEUGH, s. a crag; a rugged steep.
• HEUCK-BANE, s. the hackle-bone.
• HIDDIL, HIDLINS, adv. secretly.
• HILLIEGELEERIE, adv. topsy-turvy.
• HILT AND HAIR, adj. the whole of anything.
• HILTER-SKILTER, adv. in rapid succession.
• HIMSEL, part. pa. of himself.
• To HIRD, v. a. to tend cattle or sheep.
• HIRD, s. a shepherd; one who tends cattle.
• To HIRE, v. a. to let; to engage.
• To HIRPLE, v. a. to walk in a lame or waddling manner.
• HIRSELL, HIRSLE, v. n. to move forward resting on the hams.
• HISSIE, HIZZIE, s. a housewife.
• HISSIESKIP, HUSSYFSKAP, s. the business of housewifery.
• HIT, pron. It.
• HITCH, s. a quick motion by a jerk.
• HOAM'D, HUMPH'D, part. adj. fusty tasted.
• HOBBLE, s. a scrape, or state of perplexity.
• HOBBLEDEHOY, s. a stripling.
• HOCUS, s. a stupid dull fellow.
• HODDEN-GREY, adj. cloth made of wool in its natural condition, and worn by the peasantry.
• HODDIE, HOODIE, s. a carrion crow; also applied to the black-headed or royster crow.
• HOESHINS, s. stockings without feet.
• HOG, s. a sheep before it has been shorn of its first fleece.
• HOGGERS, s. coarse stockings without feet, generally worn over the shoes.
• HOGMANAY, HOGMENAY, s. the last day of the year.
• HOGRY-MOGRY, HUGGERY-MUGGERY adj. slovenly.
• HOIF, HOUFF, s. a haunt; a place of concealment; burying-ground.
• To HOIST, HOST, HOAST, v. a. to cough.
• To HOLK, HOUK, HOWK, v. a. to dig.
• HOLL, HOWE, s. a hollow or deep place; concave.
• HOLM, HOWN, s. the low level ground on the bank of a river.
• HOOLIE, adj. slowly; moderately.
• HOP, HAP, s. a dance.
• HORSE-COUPER, s. a horse-dealer.
• HOSTELER, s. an innkeeper.
• HOSTILAR, HOSTILLARIE, s. an inn.
• To HOTCH, v. n. to move the body by sudden jerks.
• HOTCH-POTCH, s. broth made of lamb cut into small pieces, accompanied with greens, carrots, turnips, green-peas.
• HOW, a hollow.
• HOWDY, s. a midwife.
• HOWSOMEVER, adv. howsoever.
• HOUP, s. hope.
• HOWTOWDY, s. a hen that has never laid eggs.
• HUBBILSCHOW, s. a tumult; a hubbub.
• HUDGE-MUDGE, adv. clandestinely.
• HULLION, s. a sloven.
• HUMMEL-BEE, s. a drone bee.
• To HUNKER, v. n. to squat down upon one's hams.
• HURCHEON, s. a hedgehog.
• HURDIES, s. the buttocks.
• To HURDLE, v. n. to crouch.
• To HURKLE, v. n. to draw the body together.
• HURRY-SCURRY, s. an uproar.
• HY, s. haste.
• HYNDER, s. hindrance.

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• IDLESEST, s. the state of being idle.
• IER-OE, s. a great-grandchild.
• ILK, ILKA, ILKE, adj. each; every.
• ILKA-DAY, s. a week-day.
• ILL-AFF, adj. badly off.
• ILL-DEEDY, adj. mischievous.
• ILL-FARD, adj. ill-looking.
• ILL-SAR'D, adj. ill-served; badly used.
• ILL-WILLIE, ILL-WILLIT, adj. ill-natured.
• IMMICK, s. an ant.
• To IMPLEMENT, v. a. to fulfil.
• IN-BY, adv. the inner part of the house.
• INCH, s. an island; a level plain.
• INGAN, INGIN, s. onion.
• INGLE, INGIL, s. fire.
• INGLE-NOOK, s. the corner of the fireside.
• INLYING, s. childbearing.
• INTILL, pret. into; denoting entrance.
• IRNE, AIRN, s. iron.
• ISK! ISKIE! interj. a word used in calling a dog.
• ITHER, pron. other.
• IZIE, IZBEL, s. Isabella.

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• To JAG, v. a. to job.
• JANET, s. Jess.
• JANTY, adj. cheerful.
• JAP, JAWP, s. a spot of mud.
• JAPIT, adj. bespattered with mud.
• JAW, JAWE, s. a wave; coarse raillery.
• JEDDART, s. Jedburgh, a town of Roxburghshire.
• JEDDART-JUSTICE, s. a legal trial after punishment has been inflicted on the accused.
• To JEE, v. n. to move to one side.
• To JELOUSE, v. n. to suspect.
• JENNY, s. Jess.
• JIFFIE, s. a moment.
• JILLET, s. a giddy girl.
• JIMP, s. neat, slender.
• JINK, v. n. the act of one eluding another.
• JO, JOE, s. a sweetheart.
• JOCK, JOCKIE, s. John.
• JOCKTELEG, s. a clasp knife; a folding knife.
• To JOGILL, v. n. to jog; to move from side to side.
• JOG-TROT, s. to trot at a slow rate on horseback; anything done in a slow manner.
• To JOUK, v. n. to bend down the body with a quick motion so as either to elude the sight or a blow.
• JOUKRY-PAWKRY, s. trickery; juggling.
• JUGGS, JOUGS, JUGGES, s. pl. a kind of pillory, used on the Borders, whereby criminals were fastened to a post on the wall, with their necks enveloped in an iron collar.
• JUPE, s. a kind of short mantle for a female.

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