[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
ha, hae, hay I, 299, (Child #32 A) 7, 9, 11; 330, A 6, B 6; 331, C 3, 6; D 6; 332, F 5; II, 74, E (Child #62 E) 6; 145, 27; V, 215, 9; 219, 20, 21; 221, 16, 22: have. See haed, haet.
ha, hall I, 101, (Child #7 B) (Child #7 C) 14; 133, M 1; II, 371, (Child #97 C) 8; 387, 13; IV, 84, (Child #203 A) 5; V, 209 a, the last 2: house, manor-house, hall, IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2, must be hold, as in other versions; but in IV, 514, 15, 16, would be house, unless an error for hale, whole.
haad v., II, 338, R n: hold. See haud.
hachebord, hatchbord III, 340, (Child #167 A) 36; 342, 70: would most naturally be interpreted gunwale, or side of the ship, and so archborde, 340, 23. But in 36 Sir Andrew lies at the hache-bord (which is hached with gold), and stern would be a better meaning for hachebord in that place, the high stern of the old ship being a conspicuous place for a captain to lie. See archborde. Barton lies a larborde in the York copy, IV, 504, 38, which is quite loose.
hached the hache-bord is hached with gold, III, 340, (Child #167 A) 36: gilt (possibly inlaid).
haches, hatches III, 341, (Child #167 A) 54, 57: deck, properly a frame of crossbars laid over an opening in a ship's deck. (Skeat.)
had ellipsis of, V, 274, 10, [had] rather [have] wedded, and [have] trailed, I [had] rader.
had, haad = hold. See haud.
hadden p.p., I, 402, (Child #44 A) 4, 6: held.
hadno had not.
hads hads slaine, III, 358, (Child #168 app) 61: the s in hads is perhaps caught from slaine. Other readings are had, hadeste.
hae have. See ha.
hae II, 97, (Child #63 J) 18: correct to has; cf. drees, 17.
haed II, 110, (Child #64 F) (Child #64 G) 33: had.
haely See haly.
haet, hayt, hajt I, 415 b; III, 109, (Child #121 A) 5; 110, 20; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath.
hafe-gate See half-gate.
hagg-worm II, 503: a monstrous snake.
haghty V, 219, 21: haughty.
ha-house manor-house.
haik ye up IV, 219, (Child #221 A) (Child #221 B) 13: keep you in suspense (from hake, a frame on which fish are hung to be dried (?), or, haik, to drag up and down to little purpose (Jamieson), "bear in hand," delude with false hopes?
hail III, 163, (Child #134 A) 77: whole, wholly. See hale.
hail II, 151, H (Child #68 H) 1; 256, K 5: conceal. See heal.
hailing (Old Eng. halen = Germ. ziehen, draw, move), denoting rapid motion, driving, rushing, wind come hailing, II, 22, (Child #58 C) 9. ship come hailing, IV, 402, 15, 25. went hailing to the door, hailing ben the floor, hailing through the closs, IV, 422 f, (Child #257 B) (Child #257 C) 11, 15, 18; V, 279 a, No 257, 11. Of tears and blood falling fast, tears came hailing down, II, 407, (Child #101 A) 14; drops o blude came hailing to the groun, II, 418, (Child #103 A) 31. See hailing.
hailing at the ba' II, 269, (Child #83 D) 8: playing foot-ball. Hail the ba is specifically drive the ball to or beyond goal.
haill See hale.
hailsed I, 333, (Child #38 G) 2: greeted.
hain II, 92, (Child #63 E) 17, strong participle of have (haven), wald hain = would (have) had.
haind grass II, 465, (Child #110 E) 7 (spared, preserved): grass kept from cutting or pasturing.
hair hire.
haisling IV, 46, B (Child #196 B) 9, come haisling to the town; of. hailing, proceeding. (Perhaps miswritten; Hill Burton's hand is not always careful.)
halch, halch vpon I, 294, (Child #31 A) 18, 20; III, 419 f., (Child #177 A) 7, 37: salute, bestow a salutation on.
hald See hauld, hold.
hale, haill, hail, haylle, hell II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 23; 80, 15; III, 296, (Child #161 A) 23; IV, 379, (Child #245 B) (Child #245 C) 11; 380, 20; 381, 8; 382, 13; V, 276, 14, 15: whole, in sound condition. III, 163, (Child #134 A) 77; 299, 3: wholly.
Haleigh as he was walking the Haleigh throw, I, 76, E (Child #5 E) 6: ha-lee, the lea of the hall?
halfendell III, 75, (Child #117 A) 382: the half part.
half-gate, hafe-gate II, 313, (Child #91 B) 14, 16: half-way.
halke III, 74, (Child #117 A) 366: corner, hiding-place.
hall, house manor-house. See ha.
hall, either in archbord or in hall, he wold ouercome you, III, 340, (Child #167 A) 29: hull?
hall hold. See hauld.
hall IV, 514, 15, 16: perhaps written for hale; in any case meaning whole.
hallan V, 99, (Child #275 B) (Child #275 C) 2: in cottages a wall between the fireplace and the door, to shelter from the air (extending only as far as is thought requisite for that purpose).
halld See hauld.
halle V, 236, 23: hollo! or, perhaps, simply halle = hail.
hailed V, 270, 11: hailed, saluted.
halleen V, 197, (Child #305 B) (Child #305 C) 9: holly. See hollen.
halling come halling to the town, V, 277 f., 15, 25. See hailing.
hallow, haly II, 175, (Child #72 A) (Child #72 B) 16; 239, 1: holy.
hallow, good hallow II, 270, (Child #83 D) (Child #83 E) 10: a form of salutation; perhaps, God hallow, sanctify, cleanse us from sin! perhaps simply an elliptical Good saint! I have not met the phrase elsewhere, and it seems no longer to be familiar in Scotland.
Hallowday I, 342,25; 507, 1; III, 246, E (Child #155 E) 1: saints' day, All Saints.
hallow seat I, 367, (Child #41 A) 7: a saint's place.
hals-bane, hass-bane, hause-bane, hase-bane I, 394, (Child #43 A) (Child #43 B) 8: neck-bone.
halse I, 327, 10: neck. See hause.
haly, haely, hallow II, 104, (Child #64 A) 22; 175, 16; 179, 13; 239, 1; 417, 13; III, 262, (Child #156 D) (Child #156 E) 5: holy.
halycon come halycon to the town, III, 434, E (Child #178 E) 3: in a rollicking, or a boisterous, turbulent way. North Eng. hallacking, making merry; Scottish hallach, hallokit, crazy.
halyde hauled.
hame bring bame, bear a child. See bring.
hame, home came, IV, 405, (Child #252 B) (Child #252 C) 54; 420, 5: was born.
hame gae hame, III, 398, A c after 3: that is, to the heaven where you belong, seek your lover hame, IV, 174, (Child #214 L) (Child #214 M) 11: go for and bring.
hame-gaun I, 72 f., (Child #5 C) 11, 66: home-going (to go home).
hamesucken IV, 244 b: invasion of a private house.
hand att hand of, III, 278, (Child #158 A) (Child #158 B) 30: nearly, about; cf. Old Eng. nearhand. (stroke) behind his hand, II, 63, (Child #61 app) 24: seems to be intended for backhanded.
hand for hand III, 465, (Child #185 A) 34; 466, 48: in a fair match? (hand to hand, 468, 48.)
hand lokyde at his hand, III, 307, (Child #162 A) 10: probably, shading his eyes with his hand; possibly, looked aside. Cf. lookit aneath (below) the sun, III, 5, D (Child #114 D) 7; 6, 6; 8, 6.
hand on the upper, II, 245, (Child #81 A) (Child #81 B) 29: side, uppermost (see II, 247, (Child #81 C) 32; 254, 22).
hand out of, III, 440, (Child #179 A) 25: forthwith? (The line seems to be corrupted; without resource, unable to help themselves, hors de combat, would give an easier sense if allowable.) Should we read: as many as was, out of hand?
hand-write III, 455, (Child #182 C) (Child #182 D) (Child #182 E) 8, 9, 11; V, 300, 10, 16, 19: handwriting.
hang pret. of hing, to hang, I, 327, 23 (hange); 448, 5; 451, 9; II, 154, (Child #68 K) 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38.
hang down III, 483, D (Child #187 D) 9: unintelligible to me, whether hang or gang, ding down? (drown my mare and thee, III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 26; 493, 15.)
hanging well III, 440, (Child #179 A) 17: draw-well of which the bucket is raised and lowered by a pole or beam turning on an upright post? By some understood as, a well near the place of execution.
hankit I, 224, J (Child #20 J) 2, 8: tied tight.
hansell haffe hansell for the mare, III, 111, (Child #121 A) 32: have a present, the more you buy? have the first purchase (which was thought lucky) for the larger part (of the ware)? (Doubtful.) III, 284, (Child #159 A) 10: reward. V, 112, B b 9: used in Galloway of a piece of bread given before breakfast (Jamieson); here apparently of a draught of ale given early in the morning.
hantle II, 337, (Child #93 Q) (Child #93 R) 11: a large number.
hap, happing cover, coverlet: IV, 65, (Child #200 A) 7; 258 f., 5, 20.
hap v., I, 15, (Child #2 A) (Child #2 B) 18; 299, 5; IV, 233, (Child #222 A) 2: cover, wrap.
hap v., IV, 483 b, after 12: hop.
happer hopper.
happing See hap.
harbengers III, 198, (Child #145 A) 2: harbingers, officers who preceded the king in a progress to provide accommodation for the court.
harl harl her thro the lin, I, 303, D (Child #33 D) 4: drag. See haurld.
harme III, 357, (Child #168 app) 50: sorrow.
harnessed (men), III, 62, (Child #117 A) 133: equipped.
harns V, 201, note ‡: brains, harn-pan, brain-pan, skull.
harried, haryed pret. and p.p., III, 295, (Child #161 A) 4, 6; 296, 12; IV, 6, (Child #190 A) 9, 14, etc.; V, 250, 9, 13: plundered. See herry.
harte of grece, harte of greece III, 27, (Child #116 A) 105; 124, 3, 4: a fat hart.
hartinge IV, 504, 31: encouragement.
hart-roote II, 241, (Child #80 A) 27: (Icel. hjarta-rœtr, pl., Old Eng. heorte rotes, heart-roots, -strings) term of affection.
has be I, 86, (Child #6 A) 24: as if for future (see s, us, etc.); but shall in 7, 16, and sall in b.
hase halls.
hase, hass neck, throat. See hause.
hase-bane, hass-bane See hause-bane.
hast V, 78, (Child #273 app) 12: am in haste (as well as þow hast, hastest).
hastely, hastilye III, 74, (Child #117 A) 376; 75, 392; 405, 20: immediately, soon, promptly.
hat pret. of hit, I, 299, (Child #32 A) 5; III, 350, 50.
hatches = deck: III, 335 b; IV, 505, 57. See haches.
hather III, 424 b; 425 a: heather.
haud, had, hawd, haad, howd I, 21 b, (Child #2 L) 3, 4; 74, 75; 341, 12; 354, 17; 421, 4, 8, 11; II, 70, (Child #62 A) 17; 74, D 7; 463, 24, 25; III, 491, (Child #188 C) 9; V, 296, 1, etc.; 304 b, 3: hold, keep. pret. had, II, 371, (Child #97 C) 7. p.p. hadden, I, 402, 6; hauden, II, 161, (Child #69 C) 7.
haud me unthought lang IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 10: keep me without the time seeming long, interested, entertained.
haugh low ground, properly on the border of a river: III, 9, G (Child #114 G) 10; 483, 5; IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 17; 77, 3; 273, C 7; V, 250, 20, 21.
hauld, hald, halld, hall, hold III, 281, (Child #158 C) 1; 371, 33; 433, 1, 2; 434, 1, 2; 436, 1; IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2: place of shelter, stronghold, quarters. See hold.
hauld I, 359, (Child #40 A) 9, gang by the: walk by taking hold of things, gang by haulds, III, 162, (Child #134 A) 46.
hauping II, 463, (Child #110 C) 16: hopping, hobbling.
haurld = harld, V, 99, C (Child #275 C) 5: dragged.
hause, hase, hass, halse I, 149, H (Child #11 H) 1; 327, 10; II, 165, (Child #69 F) (Child #69 G) 22; 319, 3; 366, 38; III, 163, (Child #134 A) 75; V, 184, (Child #304 A) 44: neck, throat.
hause-bane, hase-bane, hass-bane, hals-bane I, 394, (Child #43 A) (Child #43 B) 8; 395, B 3; II, 146, (Child #68 B) 14; 147, 15; IV, 165, (Child #214 A) (Child #214 B) 15; 447 b, after 13; 448 a, 2d stanza; V, 204 b: neck-bone.
have ellipsis of. would been, I, 169, (Child #13 A) (Child #13 B) 7. I wad taen, I, 356, (Child #39 I) 54, 55. shuld I slain, II, 169, (Child #70 B) 7. ye widna kept, III, 390, (Child #173 F) (Child #173 G) 10. I woud not swum, III, 489, (Child #188 A) (Child #188 B) 42. I should, might, enjoyd, IV, 135, (Child #209 I) (Child #209 J) 23; 137, 32. he woud guarded me, IV, 148, (Child #211 A) 55. they taen, IV, 221, D (Child #221 D) 7. as muckle as wald bocht, IV, 386, (Child #246 B) (Child #246 C) 18. I seen 't, IV, 465, 31. euer I seene, V, 53, (Child #271 A) 105. seem[d] to worn, V, 55, (Child #271 B) 26. he'll learned, V, 196, (Child #305 B) 53. had rather lost, V, 302, 17.
have = proceed, go. have in (to water), have over, III, 128, (Child #123 app) 76, 77.
have = provide or procure that a thing is done, hae me hame, II, 82, (Child #62 J) 54; hae me to the town, II, 122 f., 4, 28: take.
have in had him in, II, 216, (Child #76 A) 8: had him in my possession (Germ, innehaben)?
have (on the skynne), III, 127, (Child #123 app) 60: get a blow.
haw green haw sea, II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 21; IV, 379, (Child #245 B) (Child #245 C) 10, 14; 380, 19: bluish. "azure; pale, wan;" Jamieson. (A.S. hæwen, glaucus, caeruleus. Old Eng. hawe, haa.) green raw sea, II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 6, is a corruption; I have been lately informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw. In haw bayberry kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4, there is again corruption; as in the same passage of other versions.
hawd See haud.
hay II, 160, (Child #69 B) 18: for hae, has.
hay went forth to view the hay, IV, 233, (Child #222 A) 1; 238, 1: to see how the hay was coming on, as a way of taking the air.
hay IV, 225, (Child #221 G) 15; V, 261 a, No 221, G 22; hays, 16: in Maidment's text, lea, leas, probably right, hays making no reasonable sense.
haylie III, 296, (Child #161 A) 23: whole, entire. See hale.
hayt, hajt I, 415 b; III, 109, (Child #121 A) 6; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath. See haet.
he, him, she, her with proper names (almost always him, her): like Icelandic hann, hón (hún) ("so frequent in modern conversational usage that a person is scarcely ever named without the pronoun," Vigfusson.) out and spak he Sweet Willie, II, 108, (Child #64 E) 19; 185, 33. sighing said he Love Robbie, 370, 8. up and raise he Sweet Willie, 108, 15. up and raise he the bridegroom, 108, 13. up and stands she Fair Annie, 189, 32. whare it is him Sir Colin, 61, 1; so 147, 16. out it speaks him Young Bondwell, I, 479, (Child #53 M) 41; so II, 418, (Child #103 A) 25; 419, 37, 53. sighing says him Brown Robyn, II, 371, (Child #97 C) 8, 9. leugh him Childe Vyet, 134, 21. out it spake her Dow Isbel, II, 97, (Child #63 J) 21; so 418, 34. out spoke her Lady Frendraught, IV, 44, (Child #196 A) 12. out waked her May Meggie, 188, 14. it was her May Catheren, II, 145, (Child #68 A) (Child #68 B) 25. sighan says her Suse Pay, V, 219, 17. Etc., etc. Cf. Chaucer in, he lakke Straw, he Theodomar, he Pluto, = perhaps, ille; but not, him Arcite, Knight's Tale, 352, 475.) with the objective case: as, sought her Lady Maisry, II, 114, (Child #65 A) 3, 4, 10; 154, 11, 24, 26, 27; 370, 18; etc. (Him, her, with verbs of motion may possibly be a relic of the old use of a dative, and such cases are not included.)
he I, 242, (Child #22 A) 12; III, 13, (Child #115 A) 4, 8: they.
he, hee III, 307, (Child #162 A) 4: high.
header heather.
heal, healle, hail I, 453, (Child #52 C) (Child #52 D) 9; II, 145, (Child #68 A) (Child #68 B) 26; 146, 9, 10; 154, 13, 14; 155, 37: conceal.
healy, hooly adj., gentle.
healy, heely, hooly slowly, gently: II, 94, (Child #63 G) 15; 110, 22, 23.
heans hens.
heard V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: hired.
hearten IV, 444, 32: encourage.
heathen (child), II, 246, (Child #81 B) (Child #81 C) 13: unbaptized.
heathennest I, 284, (Child #30 A) 15: heathendom.
heather-cow, heather-cowe I, 302, A (Child #33 A) 9; 304, B 8, F 8; 305, 14; V, 173, (Child #299 A) (Child #299 B) 8; 174, C 2; 213, 8; heather-crow, I, 301, note *: tuft or twig of heather.
heather-knaps V, 173, (Child #299 A) (Child #299 B) 8: heather hillocks, knolls.
hech and how III, 392, (Child #173 H) (Child #173 I) 13: to utter these interjections of grief.
heckle IV, 247, (Child #225 B) (Child #225 C) 12; 248, 17: hackle, flax-comb (board set with sharp steel spikes).
hecks IV, 319, I, 5: racks.
hee See he.
heely II, 220, (Child #76 D) 21: slowly. See healy.
heer, heir, heire I, 301, (Child #33 A) 3; 303, C 3; 304, E 2: the sixth part of a hank of yarn, 240 threads.
hegehen I, 333, (Child #38 G) 3: eyen, eyes.
heght IV, 179, A (Child #215 A) 1: promised.
heigh a ween, and Oh a ween! interjections of grief, II, 504, 27. a ween is probably I ween.
height, heihte, hight, hith, heiste, hette I, 244, (Child #23 A) 10; IV, 503, 11, 14; V, 288, 18: was, is, called.
heir, heire See heer.
heiste See height.
hele = heal, conceal.
hell = whole, staunch, tight, V, 276, 14, 16. See hale.
hell heel.
helt IV, 457, 22: pret. of hile: hailed.
heme III, 434, (Child #178 D) (Child #178 E) 27, 28: home.
hempten V, 87, 11: hempen.
hend, hende, heynd, hind, hindy III, 57, (Child #117 A) 25: noble, gracious, lady hende, of the Virgin, III, 68, (Child #117 A) 251. hend soldan, II, 59, (Child #61 A) 36, 37: noble, of rank. III, 110, (Child #121 A) 27; V, 49, (Child #271 A) 12: friendly, kindly. I, 71, (Child #5 B) 41 (?); 329, 57: fine-looking. III, 98, (Child #119 A) 41: civil. See hind.
hende I, 71, (Child #5 B) 41 (gallant hende): hind, young fellow? The adjective, of noble rank, courteous, kindly, is less likely.
hent III, 110, (Child #121 A) 14; 123, 8, 10: caught, took.
hepe III, 66, (Child #117 A) 204: hip (as II, 273, (Child #83 F) 35), berry of the wild rose.
herbere I, 327, 32: garden.
herkeneth, herkens imperative plural, III, 81, 317; 109, 2.
herowed herowed hell, III, 25, (Child #116 A) 63: harried, despoiled. See harried, herry.
herry II, 261, (Child #82 A) 7; III, 473, (Child #186 A) 23; IV, 26, (Child #193 A) (Child #193 B) 2: harry, pillage, rob. See harried.
hersed V, 156, (Child #290 D) 15: rehearsed, repeated praise of?
hership IV, 41, note *: plundering.
he se See -s as sign of future.
het eat.
het hot.
hethyne I, 329, 58: hence.
hett I, 271, (Child #29 A) 5: bid.
hette I, 224, (Child #20 I) (Child #20 J) (Child #20 K) 10: is called. See height.
heuch, heugh I, 312, 13; II, 503 f., 11, 15, 28; IV, 231, I 15: steep hill or bank, glen with steep overhanging sides.
heved I, 243, (Child #23 A) 7; III, 70, (Child #117 A) 290 (?): head.
hewene V, 283, 15: heaven.
hey I, 438, B i: interjection of pleasure, displeasure, pain, excitation. (Not the dance which is called the hay.)
heye III, 482, (Child #187 C) 21: hie.
heyer, hyer compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.
heynd III, 110, (Child #121 A) 27: friendly, kindly. See hend, hind.
heyng pret. of hang, V, 78, (Child #273 app) 4.
heyt war howte! III, 111, (Child #121 A) 28: heyt! is a well-known call to horses, as in Chaucer (get up!), and war-oute is a term used in driving, according to Halliwell's Dictionary.
hi I hi, III, 349, 46: have. I hinna, II, 469, (Child #110 F) 28: have not.
hich high.
hide II, 467, (Child #110 E) 44, 50: should probably be heed, as written by Motherwell.
hie, hye n., I, 328, 37; II, 164, (Child #69 F) 9, 12; III, 99, (Child #119 A) 50: haste.
hie she smiled hie, V, 51, (Child #271 A) 55: with a smile not confined to her mouth, but mounting higher.
hiean II, 147, (Child #68 C) 2: hying.
hiesed IV, 424, b 7, 8: hoised, lifted, dragged.
high-gate V, 239, O 4: high-road.
highman I, 203, C (Child #17 C) 16, 17. In a 16, the reading is hymen, which is in itself plausible, but not ballad-like. If highman is right, the meaning would seem to be, the chief man of the occasion, the bride-groom.
hight III, 441, (Child #179 A) 30: is, was, called. See height.
hight III, 309, (Child #162 A) 34: I promise, pret. heght, hight, III, 407, 17.
hile v., IV, 456, 17: hail. pret. helt, 457, 22.
hill-gate IV, 249, F (Child #225 F) 4: hill-road.
hilt V, 76, (Child #273 A) 21: flayed.
him him, iym come, I, 244, (Child #23 A) 10, 13, 17; up stod him, 15, 16: dative of subject after verb of motion, stert hym, III, 62, (Child #117 A) 120. wente hym, III, 62, (Child #117 A) 126. rade him, IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 5. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, (Child #23 A) 18.
hin-chill V, 278, 33. See hind-chiel.
hinchman III, 320, A b 16: henchman, servant (man who stands at the hinch, haunch).
hind, hinde, hindy, hynde adj., courteous, gracious, gentle, kindly: I, 430, (Child #47 C) (Child #47 D) 5, 9; II, 177 f., (Child #72 C) 20, 35; III, 310, (Child #162 A) 52; 358, 69. See hend.
hind, hynde n. (A.S. hína, O. Eng. hine, servant), youth, chiel, callant, seems often to be used as an epithet = young (but this may possibly be hind = kindly courteous, etc., in some cases). Hynde Etin, I, 369 f., (Child #41 A) (Child #41 B) 3, 5, etc. (called Young Akin in A 367, 6, etc., Young Hastings the groom in C, 371, 3). Hind Henry, II, 305 f., (Child #90 B) 6, 18, etc.; Hynde Henry, II, 306 f., (Child #90 B) (Child #90 C) 6, 8, etc. hind-chiel, hin-chill, hynd-chiel, I, 367, (Child #41 A) 3; II, 83, after 38; IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 15; V, 278, 33. hind-greeme, I, 69, 51. hind-squire, I, 452, C (Child #52 C) 10; 453, 7; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. hine-squar, V, 278, 29 (called young squar in 18). In all three, both parts signify young fellow.
hind gane hind away, II, 248, (Child #81 C) (Child #81 D) 5 = hyne away, faraway.
hindy See hind.
hing II, 194, (Child #73 H) 22, 27; 239, 6; III, 299, (Child #161 B) (Child #161 C) 6; V, 226, 4: hang. pret. hang, hanget. p.p. hanged, hangit.
hingers V, 40, (Child #270 A) 4: hangings.
hinna I hinna will, II, 469, (Child #110 F) 28: I have not will, I wish it may not.
hinnie, hinny, honey IV, 66, (Child #200 A) (Child #200 B) 15; 69, 15; 70, 12; 72, I 5: term of affection.
hinnie-mark, honey-mark IV, 479, 7: mole? (cf. Germ, honigflecken, yellow spot.)
hinny-drap II, 283, (Child #86 A) (Child #86 B) 5: mole? = hinnie-mark.
hire a yearl's hire, II, 191, (Child #73 F) 20: rent, revenue.
hirewoman IV, 202, J (Child #217 J) 3: female servant, hired your han, IV, 240, (Child #223 A) 14, if right, must mean, she would have paid you to do it. Other copies, kissed.
hirn I, 334, 9: corner.
hirpling II, 474, (Child #110 I) (Child #110 J) 8; 476, 3: halting.
hisn V, 293, 14: his.
hith I, 334, 7: hight, am called. See height.
ho who.
hochis III, 306 b, note *: hocks.
hoe IV, 19, (Child #192 B) (Child #192 C) 7: (as a singular of hose) stocking.
hoes IV, 486, 7, 8: as plural of hoe (?).
hog II, 258, (Child #81 L) (Child #81 M) 32; IV, 325, (Child #236 C) (Child #236 D) 6, 7; 328, 3, 4; 332, 13; 469, 10, 12: young sheep that has not yet lost a fleece.
hog-rubber IV, 208 a: (seemingly) a fellow employed to rub down hogs, or fit for such business.
hoised, hoisd, hoist I, 206 f., (Child #17 G) (Child #17 H) 9, 11; IV, 248, (Child #225 C) (Child #225 D) 2, 5; V, 132, (Child #284 A) 7, pret. of hoise, heave, lift, drag.
hoky-gren (burnt like), II, 145, A (Child #68 A) 27: hoakie, "a fire that has been covered up with cinders, when all the fuel has become red." Jamieson. A branch or stem in such a fire? or good to make such a fire with? Scott has, hollins grene.
hold, holde, hauld II, 216 f., (Child #76 A) 4, 27, 29; III, 358, (Child #168 app) 74; 430, 1; 435, 1: bousing, quarters, place of shelter, lodging, thirty horsses in one hold, II, 444, (Child #109 A) 59: perhaps place of keeping (450, 64, in one close). See hauld.
hold, holde v., III, 97(Child #119 A) , 11; 176, 5, 6: wager.
holde III, 61, (Child #117 A) 93, 107: retain (legally).
hole-house I, 305, (Child #33 G) 3; V, 213, 3: said in depreciation of an humble sort of house (hole of a house), as a divot-house, a turf-cottage. (Still in use. W. Walker.)
hollan, hollin, holland linen.
Hollan, Hollans boats, I, 467, (Child #53 C) 18, 22: Dutch boats. Dutch fishing-luggers are to be seen in great numbers on the Scottish coast in summer.
hollan, holland of holly, hollan dyke, II, 195, (Child #73 H) 32: wall planted on the top with holly.
hollen, hollin I, 294 f., (Child #31 A) 15, 27; II, 153, (Child #68 J) (Child #68 K) 29; V, 191 f., 3, 18: holly. (Perhaps hollin's, V, 194, (Child #305 A) (Child #305 B) 2, should be hollins.)
hollie V, 111, (Child #279 A) (Child #279 B) 16: (slowly) softly. See hooly.
hollin holland.
holm, holme, houm, howm III, 460, (Child #184 A) 38; 488 f., 31, 34, 41; IV, 522, 4, 10: low ground on a river-bank.
holpe pret. of help, III, 342, (Child #167 A) 76. See hope.
holtes III, 296, (Child #161 A) 14; 357, 53: woods.
holydame by my, III, 209, (Child #147 A) 7: halidom. Originally halidom in oaths meant reliques of saints; my halidom seems to be used in the sense of sacred oath. (Printed holy dame in three copies, and very likely often so understood.)
hom V, 304 b, 2, 4: home.
hom III, 308, (Child #162 A) 26: them.
home, hame came, IV, 405, (Child #252 B) (Child #252 C) 54; 420, 5; was born. See bring hame.
hondert, hondreth, hondrith hundred.
honey term of endearment. See hinny.
honey-mark II, 282, (Child #86 A) 12: mole? See hinnie-mark, hinny-drap.
honey month she has turned the honey month about, to see if he was coming, IV, 320, J (Child #235 J) 2: inexplicable.
hongyr V, 283, 16: hunger.
honour's gate II, 163, (Child #69 E) 21: (honour, a manor, the mansion-house of a manor) an imposing gate, such as would be put at the principal entrance to a mansion-house. W. Macmath.
hooding See huddin.
hook IV, 19 f., C (Child #192 C) 3, 8: loop.
hook-tooth I, 18, F (Child #2 F) 9: tooth of a sickle with serrated edge.
hooly adj., II, 107, (Child #64 C) (Child #64 D) 9: slow, gentle.
hooly, hoolie, hollie, huly adv., slowly, softly: I, 451, (Child #52 A) (Child #52 B) 12; II, 108, (Child #64 E) 10; 111, 10; III, 393, (Child #173 I) 14. See healy.
hope, houp IV, 25, (Child #193 A) 4; 27, 12; 184, 2, 3: "a deep and pretty wide glen among hills." Jamieson.
hope pret., V, 103, A c 14: holp, helped. See holpe.
hope I, 327, 12; 449, 17; II, 311, (Child #91 A) 6; V, 54, (Child #271 B) 3: expect, think.
hore, hoar, gray, grene wode hore, holtes hore, III, 65, (Child #117 A) 176; 357, 53: gray as to trunks.
horne and lease III, 360, 113. See Pegge, Archæologia, III, 1, 1775, "Of the horn as a charter or instrument of conveyance." Professor Gross, of Harvard College, has favored me with the following case: "Pro quo officio [i.e. coroner and escheator of the Honor of Tutbury] nullas evidentias, cartavel alia scripta, proferre possit nisi tantum cornu venatorium." The possession of this horn still conveys the right to hold the office. Cf. J.C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, London, 1890, I, 73-79.
horse-brat I, 302, B (Child #33 B) 10: horse-cloth (horse's sheet, horse-sheet, of A 13, F 4).
hose I, 285, (Child #30 A) 38: embrace, hug (halse, Scottish hawse).
hosen, hose III, 65, (Child #117 A) 193: stockings (not breeches; see 196).
hosens IV, 257, (Child #226 A) (Child #226 B) 3: stockings without feet.
hostage III, 271, F (Child #157 F) 10; hostage-house, 4, 5, 8, 9: inn.
hosteler-ha III, 270, E (Child #157 E) 3, 4, 5, 7: inn.
hostess-house ( = hostage-house), IV, 175, N (Child #214 N) 4: inn.
hostler III, 266 f., (Child #157 A) 4, 6, 9, 10; V, 153 f., A (Child #290 A) 3, 4, B 3-5; 156 b, B: innkeeper.
hostler-wife IV, 508 1; V, 154, (Child #290 A) (Child #290 B) 3: woman keeping an inn.
houk V, 218, 5: dig. Pret. and p.p. houked, houket, houkit, howket, etc., I, 184, (Child #15 A) (Child #15 B) 9; 220, A 2, B 4, C 4; 221 f., E 7, 17; III, 500 b, 8; IV, 451 a, 3, 5; V, 210, 9.
houl III, 247, (Child #155 E) (Child #155 F) 5: hold.
houm, howm, holm I, 394, (Child #43 A) (Child #43 B) 14; III, 370, (Child #169 C) 5; IV, 168, E (Child #214 E) 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12; 523, 3, 5: level low ground on a river-bank.
hound IV, 19, (Child #192 B) (Child #192 C) 4; 20, 9: chase, drive.
houp, hope IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 13: (A.S. hóp) sloping hollow between two hills.
hour whore.
house V, 273, No 237, 20: hose.
housen II, 3, (Child #54 B) (Child #54 C) 10; 5 b, 2: house (sing.).
house-end, house-enden I, 254, b 1, c 1: gable.
housle, houzle II, 46, (Child #59 A) (Child #59 B) 46; III, 330, (Child #165 A) 13: give the sacrament.
houzle III, 105, (Child #120 A) 22, 23: communion.
hove hove hole, I, 304, F (Child #33 F) 2: a hole which one haunts or lives in.
hoved III, 296, (Child #161 A) 20: hung about, tarried.
hoved on III, 358, (Child #168 app) 69: moved on (hied, 362, 69).
hoves V, 227, 4: hoofs.
how how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.
how, n., III, 164, b (Child #134 A) 49; 316 a, last line; IV, 110, (Child #206 A) 10; 303, 7: hollow, sometimes, plain.
how adj., IV, 476 a, 4: hollow.
how III, 392, (Child #173 H) (Child #173 I) 11, 13 (as verb): exclamation of grief.
howbeit III, 450 a: although.
howd hold. See haud.
howded V, 124, C (Child #281 C) 15: swung.
howk, howked etc. See houk.
howm See houm.
howre V, 78, (Child #273 app) 5, 6; 79, 28, 33, 35; 80, 37: our.
howther o dirt II, 184, (Child #73 B) 13: a mass of dirt.
howyn own.
hoyse, hoise II, 26, (Child #58 G) (Child #58 H) 8: hoist.
huddin, hooding (hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 30; 266, 15: covering, coverlet.
huddle II, 246, B (Child #81 B) 7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot, hiddle, hide).
huggar I, 303, D (Child #33 D) 5: stocking without a foot.
huggell II, 244, (Child #81 A) 16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of huddle.
huly, hooly, healy II, 168, B (Child #70 B) 4; 169, 12; 216, 2; IV, 413, (Child #254 B) 18; 436, 8: slowly, softly.
humming III, 136, (Child #125 A) 30: heady, strong, as causing a hum in the head.
hunder, hundre, hunner, huner, hundredth hundred.
hunger, hungre v., II, 382, (Child #99 B) (Child #99 C) 4; 386, 4; 387, 2; 391, 2: starve.
hunkers V, 213, 9 = clunkers, clots of dirt.
hunt's ha I, 298, (Child #32 A) 2: hunting-house or lodge.
husbande, husbonde III, 57, (Child #117 A) 13; 295, 1: farmer, husbandman. III, 58, (Child #117 A) 46: economist, manager.
hussyfskap, husseyskep V, 98, A (Child #275 A) 3, B 3: housewifery (she was making puddings). But perhaps, specifically, hussyskep, a sort of basket or bin of straw, formerly used, especially in ruder districts, for holding corn or meal. In like manner, a "platted hive of straw" is called a bee-skep. G.F. Graham's Songs of Scotland, III, 181.
hy, hye, hyght on, vpon, III, 296, (Child #161 A) 9; 297, 31, 47, 48; 359, 91: in a loud voice, on hy, hye, III, 309, (Child #162 A) 51; 297, 45: on high, up, erect, on hyght, III, 297, (Child #161 A) 34: on high.
hye, hie n., I, 328, 37; III, 99, (Child #119 A) 50: haste.
hyer, heyer compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.
hyf V, 283, 4: if.
hyghte I, 328, 36: promise, hyght, p.p., III, 297, (Child #161 A) 29: promised; III, 77, (Child #117 A) 442: vowed.
hym wente hym, stert hym, III, 62, (Child #117 A) 120, 126: dative of subject after verb of motion. See him.
hyndberry I, 177, A c: raspberry or brambleberry.
hynd-chiel See hind.
hynde n., III, 64, (Child #117 A) 164: fellow, hynde Henry, II, 306 f., (Child #90 B) (Child #90 C) 6, 8, etc.; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. See hind, n.
hynde adj., II, 177 f., (Child #72 C) 20, 35: gentle, or the like. See hind, adj.
hyne II, 314, C (Child #91 C) 3: (up) behind.
hyne II, 314, C (Child #91 C) 3: hence, away.
hypped III, 77, (Child #117 A) 429: hopped.
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