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.