H

H

• • Hack

  • to become common

  • Haggard

  • a wild or unreclaimed hawk

  • Hag-seed

  • seed or offspring of a hag

  • Hair

  • course, order, grain

  • Halidom

  • holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship;
    used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'

  • Hall

  • an open space to dance in

  • Hallowmas

  • All Hallows' Day

  • Hap

  • chance, fortune

  • Happily

  • accidentally

  • Handsaw

  • perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern

  • Hardiment

  • defiance, brave deeds

  • Harlock

  • charlock, wild mustard

  • Harry

  • to annoy, harass

  • Haught

  • haughty

  • Haunt

  • company

  • Having

  • property, fortune

  • Haviour

  • behavior

  • Hay

  • a term in fencing

  • Heady

  • violent, headlong

  • Heat

  • of 'to heat,' heated

  • Hebenon

  • henbane

  • Heft

  • a heaving

  • Heft

  • furnished with a handle: hence,
    metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed

  • Helm

  • to steer, manage

  • Hence

  • henceforward

  • Henchman

  • a page or attendant

  • Hent

  • to seize, take

  • Hermit

  • a beadsman, one bound to pray for another

  • Hest

  • command

  • High

  • used in composition with adjectives to heighten
    or emphasize their signification, as, high-
    fantastical

  • Hight

  • called

  • Hild

  • held

  • Hilding

  • a paltry fellow

  • Hint

  • suggestion

  • Hiren

  • a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'

  • Hit

  • to agree

  • Hoise

  • to hoist, heave up on high

  • Hoist

  • hoisted

  • Holp

  • to help; helped

  • Home

  • to the utmost

  • Honest

  • chaste

  • Honesty

  • chastity

  • Honey-stalks

  • the red clover

  • Hoodman-blind

  • the game now called blindman's-buff

  • Horn-mad

  • probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad

  • Horologe

  • a clock

  • Hot-house

  • a brothel

  • Hox

  • to hamstring

  • Hugger-mugger

  • secresy

  • Hull

  • to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship

  • Humorous

  • fitful, or, perhaps, hurried

  • Hunt-counter

  • to follow the scent the wrong way

  • Hunts-up

  • a holla used in hunting when the game was on
    foot

  • Hurly

  • noise, confusion

  • Hurtle

  • to clash

  • Hurtling

  • noise, confusion

  • Husbandry

  • frugality
    Management

  • Huswife

  • a jilt