Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume XXIV Part 47

GUTTERS, _s. pl._ mire; mud; dirt.

GUTTY, _adj._ gross; thick--applied both to persons and things.

GYISARD, GYSART, _s._ children who go from door to door singing during the Christmas time. Masks are frequently used on such occasions.

GYM, _adj._ neat and spruce.

_To_ GYS, _v. a._ to disguise.

GYTE, _adj._ foolish. _To gang gyte_, to act extravagantly or foolishly.

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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 sc.r.a.pe; 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._ coa.r.s.e 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_, h.o.a.r-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 st.u.r.dy 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.