grained,ingrained, dyed in ‘grain’, Hamlet, iii. 4. 90.
grained,ingrained, dyed in ‘grain’, Hamlet, iii. 4. 90.
grain,a bough or branch. Bp. Hall, Sat. Defiance to Envie, 5;grains, the prongs of a forked stick, fork, or fish-spear, ‘With three graines like an ele speare’, Holland, Suetonius, 147; the lower limbs, Drayton, Pol. i. 495. ‘Grain’ is in gen. prov. use in various parts of England and Scotland in many senses, esp. a branch or bough of a tree, and the prong or tine of a fork, see EDD. (s.v. Grain, sb.11 and 5). Icel.grein, a branch of a tree, an arm of the sea.
grained staff,a staff forked at the top, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 41. 9.
grained staff,a staff forked at the top, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 41. 9.
graithe,to prepare, array. Morte Arthur, leaf 86. 34; bk. v, c. 7. In common prov. use in Scotland and in the north of England (EDD.). ME.graythe, to prepare, get ready (Wars Alex., see Gloss. Index). Icel.greiða.
grammates,rudiments, first principles. Ford, Broken Heart, i. 3 (Orgilus). Gk. γράμματα, the letters of the alphabet.
grandguard,a piece of plate armour, covering the breast and left shoulder, affixed to the breastplate by screws, and hooked on to the helmet. Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 6. 72.
graner,a ‘garner’, granary. Drayton, Pol. iii. 258.
grange,a country-house; a lonely dwelling. Meas. iii. 1. 279; Heywood, Eng. Traveller, iii. 1 (Delavil). In various parts of England the term ‘grange’ is used for a small mansion or farm-house, esp. one standing by itself remote from other dwellings (EDD.). See Dict.
†gratuling,congratulating; ‘His gratuling speech’, Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, ii. 1 (Prigg). Only in this passage. OF.gratuler, L.gratulari, to congratulate.
Grave,a Count; a title. Used of Prince Maurice of Nassau; Fletcher, Love’s Cure, i. 2 (Bobadilla); Ford, Lady’s Trial, iv. 2. Du.Grave, an Earle or a Count (Hexham); cp. G.Graf.
†graved.‘O, that these gravèd hairs of mine were covered in the clay!’, Appius and Virginia, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 143. Perhaps a misprint forgrayed, become grey; seegraye.
gravelled,stranded; hence, brought to a stand, perplexed. As You Like It, iv. 1. 74; North, tr. of Plutarch, Antonius, § 14 (in Shak. Plut., p. 177, n. 1).
gray,a badger;grice of a gray, lit. pig of a badger, cub of a badger. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. 1 (Lorel). Formerly in prov. use in the north country, and in Wilts., Devon, and Cornwall, see EDD. (s.v. Grey, sb.16). ME.grey, ‘taxus’ (Prompt. 209, see Way’s note).
graye,to become grey; ‘In learning Socrates lives, grayes and dyes’ (Sylvester); see NED. (s.v. Grey, vb.).
grease;seegreece.
greave,a thicket. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 10. 42; vi. 2. 43; Drayton, Pol. xiii. 116; ‘Greave or busshe,boscaige’, Palsgrave. ‘Greave’ occurs in local names near Sheffield, and appears as a Lancashire word in EDD. ME.greve(Chaucer, C. T.A.1507), OE.grǣfa, a bush (Chron. 852).
grece,a flight of stairs or steps; ‘The greece of the quire’, Bacon, Hen. VII (ed. Lumby, 162);greese, a single step or stair in a flight, Latimer, 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (ed. Arber, 67);greise, Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 1. 34; greese (grice), Twelfth Nt. iii. 1. 138; Timon, iv. 3. 16; Othello, i. 3. 200; ‘Eschelette, a small step or greece’, Cotgrave. See EDD. (s.v. Grees). ME.grees, steps, stairs (Wyclif, Acts xxi. 35). OF.grés, pl. ofgré, ‘marche d’un escalier’ (La Curne), L.gradus, a step. Seegressinges.
gredaline;seegridelin.
gree,a step or degree in honour or rank. Spenser, Shep. Kal., July, 215; Greene, Orl. Fur. i. 1. 175 (Orlando).To win the gree, to win the highest degree, superiority, mastery, victory, Morte Arthur, bk. x, ch. 21. See EDD. (s.v. Gree, sb.1). ME.gree(Rom. Rose, 2116), OF.gré, ‘degré, rang’ (La Curne).
gree,favour, goodwill. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 3. 5;in gree, with goodwill or favour, kindly, in good part:to take in gree, F. Q. v. 6. 21;to receive in gree, Gascoigne, Jocasta, iii. 1 (Manto). Cp. F.en gré, in good part (Cotgr., s.v. Gré), L.gratum, a pleasant thing.
gree,short foragree. Greene, Friar Bungay, ii. 3 (744), scene 6. 130 (W.); p. 162, col. 1 (D.); Daniel, Philotas, p. 195 (Nares); Sh. Sonn. cxiv.
greece, herte of,a hart of grease, a good fat hart, in prime condition. Morte Arthur, leaf 283, back, 22; bk. x, c. 86. Seehart of grease.
green,youthful, of tender age; ‘Green virginity’, Timon, iv. 1. 7; raw, inexperienced, simple, ‘A green girl’, Hamlet, i. 3. 101; ‘green minds’, Othello, ii. 1. 250; silly, ‘green songs’, Two Noble Kinsmen, iv. 3. 61.
green gown;to give a lass a green gown, to throw her down upon the grass, so that the gown was stained. Greene, George-a-Greene, ii. 3 (Jenkin); Middleton, Fair Quarrel, ii. 2 (Chough).
green lion,a stage in the process of transmutation of metals. B. Jonson, ii. 1 (Face).
Greensleeves, Lady Greensleeves,the names of a once well-known ballad and tune. Merry Wives, ii. 1. 64; Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, iii. 4 (Petruchio). See Roxburgh Ballads, vi. 398.
greete,to weep, cry, lament, grieve, Spenser, Sheph. Kal., April, 1; weeping and complaint, ib., August. In common prov. use in Scotland, Ireland, and north of England including Derbyshire, see EDD. (s.v. Greet, vb.1). ME.greten, to weep (Wars Alex. 4370). OE.grǣtan(Anglian,grētan), to weep.
grement,‘agreement’. Mirror for Mag., Cade, st. 1.
gresco,an old game at cards. Eastward Ho, iv. 1 [or2] (Touchstone); see Nares; ‘Hazard or Gresco’ (Florio, s.v. Massáre).
gresle,slender. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 270, back, 27. OF.gresle(F.grêle); L.gracilis, slender.
gressinges,steps, stairs; ‘There is another way to go doune, by gressinges’, Latimer, 6 Sermon before King (ed. Arber, p. 170). Cp. EDD. (s.v. Grissens). Seegrece.
grewnde,a greyhound. Golding, Metam. i. 533; fol. 9, back (1603); Harington, Ariosto, xxiv. 52;grewhound, Bellenden, Boece, I. xxxi (NED.). ME.gre-hownde(Prompt. Harl. MS.). Icel.greyhundr, also,grey, a greyhound. See NED. (s.v. Greund).
grice,a pig, esp. a young pig; ‘Marcassin, a young wild boar . . . or grice’, Cotgrave; ‘Bring the Head of the Sow to the Tail of the Grice’ (i.e. balance your Loss with your Gain), Kelly, Scot. Prov. 62. Also, the young of a badger, B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. 1 (Lorel) (seegray). Still in use in Scotland and the north of England (EDD.). ME.gryse, pygge, ‘porcellus’ (Prompt. EETS., see note, no. 916). Icel.grīss, a young pig; so Norw. dial.gris(Aasen).
grice;seegrece.
gride,forgrided, pp. ofgride, to pierce. Drayton, Pol. xxii. 1491.
gridelin,of a pale purple or violet colour; Dryden seems to say it was a colour between white and green. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 343. Speltgredaline, The Parson’s Wedding, ii. 3 (Wanton). F.gridelin, forgris de lin(i.e. of the grey colour of flax), see Hatzfeld.
grill, gryll,fierce. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 6. ME.gril, fierce (Cursor M. 719); Low G.grel(l, angry (Koolman).
†grindle-tail,a kind of dog. Only in Fletcher, Island Princess, v. 3 (2 Townsman). Perhaps a misprint fortrindle-tail(trundle-tail). See NED.
gripe,a griffin; ‘Grypes make their nests of gold’, Lyly, Galathea, ii. 3; a vulture, Lucrece, 543. OF.grip, griffin. Seegryphon.
gripe’s egg,a large egg supposed to be that of a ‘gripe’, hence, an oval-shaped cup. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1 (Subtle). Cp. ME.gripes ey(Gower, C. A. i. 2545).
gripple,greedy, grasping. Spenser, F. Q. i. 4. 31; vi. 4. 6; Drayton, Pol. i. 106; xiii. 22. A Yorkshire word (EDD.). OE.gripel.
gris-amber,ambergris or grey amber. Milton, P. R. ii. 344. See Dict. (s.v. Amber).
grisping,twilight; either morning or evening. Lyly, Euphues (ed. Arber, 233). Cp. the phr.in the gropsing of the evening, in the dusk, Records Quarter Sessions (ann. 1606); see EDD.
grissel, gristle,a tender or delicate person; ‘She is but a gristle’, Udall, Roister Doister, i 4. 24; ‘I love no grissels’, Lyly, Endimion, v. 2 (Sir Tophas). See NED. (s.v. Gristle, 3).
groin,the snout; hence, a contemptuous term for the face. Golding, Metam. xiv. 292 (fol. 170); Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, x. 34. ME.groyn, a pig’s snout (Chaucer, C. T.I.158). O. Prov.gronh, ‘groin, museau’ (Levy). SeeGroyne.
groin,to growl; ‘Beares that groynd’, Spenser, F. Q. vi. 12. 27;groyning, murmuring, Turnbull, Expos. James, 202 (NED). ME.groynen, to murmur (Chaucer, C. T.A.2460). OF.grogner, to grunt, L.grunnire.
groom-porter,an officer of the royal household (till the time of George III); he was privileged to provide gaming-tables, cards, and dice. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2 (Face); Dryden, Prol. to Don Sebastian, l. 24.
grought,growth, increase. Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, x. 101; xxiii. 289.
ground,the plain-song or melody on which a descant is raised; also, the ground-bass. Richard III, iii. 7. 49; Edw. III, ii. 1. 122; ‘The tenor-part, the treble, and the ground’, B. Jonson, Love’s Welcome at Welbeck, 2 Chorus.
grout,coarse porridge, made with whole meal. Warner, Albion’s England, bk. iv, ch. 20, st. 28. Icel.grautr, porridge.
grout-head, growthead,a blockhead, thickhead. Tusser, Husbandry (ed. 1878, 115); ‘Those Turbanto grout-heads’, Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 39; ‘Il a une grosse teste, he is a verie blockhead, grouthead, joulthead’, Cotgrave; Urquhart’s Rabelais, I, xxv (Davies). ‘Grout-headed’ (thick-headed) is known in Sussex (EDD.).
groutnoll,a blockhead, thickhead, Beaumont and Fl., Knt. Burning Pestle, ii. 3 (Wife).
growt,great. Middleton, Span. Gipsy, iv. 1 (Sancho’s song). Du.groot, great.
groyle,to move, move forward; ‘He groyleth’ (L.graditur), Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, iii. 678. Hence,groyl, one who is ever on the move, id., iv 179. F.grouiller, ‘to move, stir’ (Cotgr.).
Groyne, the,name given by sailors to Corunna, the sea-port in Spain. De Foe, Rob. Crusoe, I. xix. The name appears in the 14th cent., ‘VocaturLe Groyne; est in mare ut rostrum porci’, Pol. Poems (Rolls Ser. i. 112). Seegroin.
grubble,to grope, feel; ‘Now, let me roll and grubble thee’ (spoken of a lot which he has taken in his hand, before drawing it out), Dryden, Don Sebastian, i. 1 (Antonio).
grudgins,coarse meal; ‘Annone, meslin or grudgins, the corne whereof browne bread is made for the meynie’, Cotgrave; Fletcher and Rowley, Maid of Mill, iii. 3. 17. Formerly in prov. use in the Midlands (EDD.). Cp. F.grugeons, lumps of crystalline sugar in brown sugar; in Cotgrave ‘the smallest fruit on a tree’. Seegurgeons.
grum,surly, cross, ‘glum’. Etherege, Man of Mode, ii. 1 (Old Bellair); Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1 (Novel). In prov. use in many parts of England, also in America (Franklin’s Autobiography, 51), see Century Dict. and EDD. Norw. dial.grum, proud, haughty (Aasen), Dan.grum, fierce, angry.
†grumbledory,a grumbler, B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, v. 4 (Carlo).
grunter,a pig. Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. 1 (Song). In common prov. use in the north country (EDD.).
grunting-cheat,a pig; lit. ‘a thing that grunts’; fromcheat, a cant word used in the general sense of ‘thing’. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, v. 1 (Ferret); Harman, Caveat, p. 83; alsogruntling-cheat, Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1 (Trapdoor). Seecheat.
grutch,to ‘grudge’, repine, murmur. Udall, Paraph. Erasmus, fo. cccxlv; Spenser, F. Q. ii. 2. 34; ‘I grutche, I repyne agaynst a thyng,Je grommelle’, Palsgrave. A Lancashire and E. Anglian word (EDD.). ME.grucche(Chaucer, C. T.A.3863). OF. (Picard)groucher(OF.grocer), ‘murmurer’ (La Curne). See Moisy (s.v. Groucher).
gryphon,a fabulous monster, a kind of lion with an eagle’s head; a griffin. Milton, P. L. ii. 943; speltgryfon, Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 8. F. ‘griffon, a gripe or griffon’ (Cotgr.).
G-sol-re-ut,in old music, the octave of the lower G or lowest note in the old scale. It was denoted by the letter G, and sung to the syllablesolwhen it occurred in the second hexachord, which began with C; to the syllablerein the third hexachord, which began with F; and to the syllableutwhen it began the fourth hexachord. Peacham, Comp. Gentleman, c. 11, p. 104.
guard,an ornamental border or trimming on a garment. Much Ado, i. 1. 289. ‘The orig. meaning may have been that of a binding to keep the edge of the cloth from fraying’, NED.
guarish,to cure, heal. Spenser. F. Q. iii. 5. 41; iv. 3. 29. OF.guarir,garir(Gower, Mirour, 2278). O. Prov.garir, ‘guérir, préserver, sauver’ (Levy).
gubbe,a lump, quantity; ‘Some good gubbe of money’, Udall, tr. of Apoph., Socrates, § 31;gubs, pl., ‘gubs of blood’, Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, iii. 632 (Lat.saniem).
gudgeon,a small fish, often used as bait for a larger one; phr.to swallowa gudgeon, to be caught, to be befooled, alluded to in Chapman, Mons. d’Olive, iv (Mugeron). See EDD.
gue,a rogue; also, a term of endearment. Given by Nares and NED. as used by Richard Brathwaite in hisHonest Ghost, in two passages, first, of a sharper who had taken a purse, secondly, as a term of familiar endearment, ‘I was her ingle, gue, her sparrow bill’, p. 139. The word occurs in some copies of Webster, White Devil: ‘Pretious gue’, iii. 3. 99 (Lodovico); ed. Dyce, p. 26. Nares supposes it to be the same word as F.gueux, a beggar, a rogue, which conjecture NED. accepts.
guerie, guierie,sudden passion; ‘Euery sodain guerie or pangue’, Udall, tr. of Apoph., Cicero, § 6; ‘This pangue or guierie of loue’, id., Diogenes, § 112. Only occurs in Udall. Seegere(2) andgery.
guerison,cure, healing. Gascoigne, ed. Hazlitt, i. 453, l. 13; i. 466. F.guérison; OF.guarison,garison(Bartsch), Anglo-F.gariscun(Gower, Mirour, 420). Seeguarish.
guess;seegesse.
guidon,a flag or pennant, broad near the staff and forked or pointed at the other end. Drayton, Pol. xviii. 251; Barons’ Wars, bk. ii, st. 24. F.guidon, ‘a standard, ensign, or banner under which a troop of men at arms do serve; also he that bears it’ (Cotgr.);guydon(Rabelais). O. Prov.guidon,guizon, étendard (Levy); Ital. ‘guidóne, a guidon, a banner or cornet’ (Florio).
guie, guy,to guide, lead; alsogye, Palsgrave; ‘He guies’, Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, i. 49;guide(forguyed), pt. t., id., i. 63. ME.gye, to guide (Chaucer, C. T.A.1950); Anglo-F.guïer(Ch. Rol.).
guisarme,a kind of battle-axe or halberd. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 202, back, 23, 29. Norm. F.guisarme, ‘sorte d’arme, hache ou demi-pique’ (Didot). See NED. (s.v. Gisarme).
guitonen,a lazy beggar. Middleton, Game at Chess, i. 1 (B. Knight). Span.guiton, ‘a lazy Beggar, that goes about in the Habit of a Pilgrim, only to live idle’ (Stevens).
guives,fetters, ‘gyves’. Lord Cromwell, ii. 2. 3. Anglo-F.guives,gyves(French Chron., London, ed. Camden, 89).
gulch,to swallow or devour greedily; ‘Ingorgare, to engurgle, . . . to gulch’ (Florio);gulch, a glutton or drunkard, B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 4; Brewer, Lingua, v. 16; ‘Engorgeur, a glutton, gulch’, Cotgrave. The verb ‘to gulch’ is in prov. use in various parts of England from Yorkshire to Cornwall (EDD.). ME.gulchen(Ancren Riwle, 240).
gule,to redden, to dye red. Heywood, Iron Age, Pt. II, vol. iii, p. 357. See Dict. (s.v. Gules).
gulfe,a ‘goaf’, a quantity of hay or corn laid up in a barn. Golding, Metam. vi. 456 (ed. 1603, fol. 73); ‘Goulfe of corne, so moche as may lye bytwene two postes, otherwise a baye’, Palsgrave. Seegofe.
gull,to swallow, guzzle; ‘I gulle in drinke, as great drinkers do,je engoule’, Palsgrave; Middleton, Game at Chess, iv. 2. 19; Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xxi. 132. Du.gullen, ‘to swallow or devoure’ (Hexham).
gull,a breach made by the force of a torrent, a fissure, chasm. Golding, Metam. ix. 106; to sweep away by force of running water, ‘And hilles by force of gulling oft have into sea been worne’, id., xv. 267. An E. Anglian word (EDD.).
gummed;seefret.
gundolet,forgondolet, a small gondola. Marston, Antonio, Pt. I, iii. 2 (Piero). It occurs twice in this scene.
gunny;seegowndy.
gun-hole groat,some kind of groat or coin, that seems to have been prized. The meaning of the epithet is unknown. ‘For gunne-hole grotes the countrie clowne doth care’, Mirror for Mag., Carassus, st. 27; Gascoigne, ed. Hazlitt, i. 66.
gunstone,a stone used for the shot of a cannon or gun. Tusser, Husbandry, § 10. 19; Hen. V, i. 2. 282; B. Jonson, Volpone, v. 5. 2.
gup, guep,an exclamation of impatience; get along!; ‘Gup! morell, gup!’, Skelton (ed. Dyce, i. 24). Seemarry gip.
gurgeons,coarse refuse from flour; ‘The bran usuallie called gurgeons or pollard’, Harrison, Descr. England, ii. 6 (ed. Furnivall, 154); ‘Gurgions of meal,cibarium secundarium’, Coles, Dict., 1679. In prov. use in the S. Midlands and south-west counties (EDD.). Seegrudgins.
gutter,of a stag’s horn; seeantlier.
Guttide,Shrovetide, also, Shrove Tuesday. Middleton, Family of Love, iv. 1 (Mis. P.). ‘Guttit’ is in common prov. use in Cheshire for Shrovetide;gooditin Staffordshire. Orig.good tide, see EDD. (s.v. Gooddit).
guzzle,a gutter, drain; ‘a narow ditch’, Marston, Scourge of Villainy, Sat. vii. 39; ‘A filthy stinking guzzle or ditch’, Whately, Bride Bush, 114 (Cent. Dict.). In prov. use in the Midlands, also in Sussex and Wilts., see EDD. (s.v. Guzzle, sb.11).
gymnosophist,one of a sect of Hindu philosophers of ascetic habits. B. Jonson, Fortunate Isles (Merefool); Massinger, A Very Woman, iii. 5 (Borachia); Butler, Hud. ii. 3. 196. Gk. Γυμνοσοφισταί, the naked philosophers of India (Aristotle).
H
ha and ree,words of command to a horse to direct it. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV (Hobs) (vol. i. 44);hey and ree, Micro-Cynicon, Halliwell (s.v. Ree). In prov. use, ree is an exclamation made by the carter to bid the leading horse of a team to turn or bear to the right, see EDD. (s.v. Rec, int., also, Hay-ree). In the north country the carters use the phraseneither heck nor ree, neither left nor right: ‘He’ll neither heck nor ree’, i.e. he’ll not obey the word of command, he’s quite unmanageable, see EDD. (s.v. Heck, int.). Seehay-reeandhayte and ree,alsogee and ree.
hab,to have;nab, not to have; hence, phr.by habs and by nabs, at random; Middleton, Span. Gipsy, iii. 2 (Soto). In Somerset and Devonhab or nab, by hook or by crook: ‘I’ll ab’m—hab or nab’, I’ll have them anyhow (EDD.). Seehab-nab.
haberdash,small wares. Spelthaburdashe, Skelton, Magnyfycence, 1295. ‘Ther haberdashe, Ther pylde pedlarye’, Papist. Exhort. (Nares). Still in use in Aberdeen (EDD.). Anglo-F.hapertas, the name of a fabric (Rough List). See Dict. (s.v. Haberdasher).
habiliment,outfit, accoutrement, attire. Spenser, F. Q. i. 6. 30; Beaumont and Fl., Wildgoose Chase, iii. 1 (Rosalura). Seeabiliments.
habilitate,legally qualified. Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, p. 15). Med. Lat.habilitare, ‘idoneum, habilem reddere; informare, instituere’ (Ducange).
habilitation,endowment with ability or fitness; qualification, training. Bacon, Essay 29, § 8.
habilitie,ability. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 8, § 2.
hable, habile,‘able’. Spenser, F. Q. i. 11. 19. See Dict. (s.v. Able).
hab-nab,have or not have, hit or miss; a phrase signifying the taking one’s chance; ‘Hab-nab’s good’, I take my chance, Ford, Lady’s Trial, ii. 1 (Fulgoso); at random, Butler, Hudibras, ii. 3. 990. See EDD. (s.v. Hab, adv., 1). Seehab.
hache,axe, hatchet. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 18, § 2. F.hache, an axe, O. Prov.apcha(Levy); of Germ. origin, cp. OHG.heppa(for *happi̯a), a sickle; see Schade (s.v. Happâ).
hackle,to hack about, to mangle.Hackled, pp.; North, tr. of Plutarch, J. Caesar, § 44 (in Shak. Plut., p. 101, n. 1).
hackster, haxter,a hacker, one who hacks; hence, a cut-throat, bravo, bully. Chapman, Bussy D’Ambois, iii (Monsieur); Hall, Satires, iv. 4. 60;haxter, Lady Alimony, i. 2 (Messenger).
hacqueton;seehaqueton.
had I wist,if I had but known. A common exclamation of one who repents too late. Spenser, Mother Hubberd’s Tale, 893; London Prodigal, iii. 1. 49; Two Angry Women, iv. 3 (Nicholas). ME.hadde I wist: ‘Upon his fortune and his grace Comth “Hadde I wist” ful ofte a place’, Gower (C. A. i. 1888).
hade,a strip of land left unploughed as a boundary line and means of access between two ploughed portions of a field. Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 6; Drayton, Pol. xiii. 222 and 400. In Corpus Coll., Oxford, there is a Map (date 1615) in which there is a description of certain arable lands having ‘hades’ of meadow and grass ground lying in the south field of Eynsham. See EDD. (s.v. Hade, sb.1).
hæmeræ,forhemeræ,pl., ephemera, ephemeral flies, day-flies. Greene, Friar Bacon, iii. 3 (1482); scene 10. 124 (W.); p. 171, col. 2 (D.). Forephemera, Med. L.ephemera, Gk. ἐφήμερα, neut. pl. of ἐφήμερος, lasting or living but a day.
hæmony.Name given by Milton to an imaginary plant having supernatural virtues. Milton, Comus, 638. Gk. αἱμώνιος, blood-red (probably with a theological allusion).
haft,to use shifts, haggle. Skelton, Magnyfycence, 1698; to cheat, id., Bowge of Courte, 521; hencehafter, a cheat, thief; id., Bowge of Courte, 138. Cp. Yorkshire word ‘heft’ in the sense of deceit, dissimulation, see EDD. (s.v. Heft, sb.3).
hafter,a wrangler; ‘Vitilitigator, an hafter, a wrangler, a quarreller’, Gouldman, Dict., 1678; so Baret, 1580.
hag,to trouble as the nightmare. Drayton, Heroic Ep. (Wks. ed. 1748, p. 108); spelthaggue, to vex, worry. Udall, tr. Apoph., Diogenes, § 95.
haggard,a wild female hawk, caught when in her adult plumage. Much Ado, iii. 1. 36; wild, intractable, inexperienced, B. Jonson, Magn. Lady, iii. 3 (Compass); Othello, iii. 3. 260; ‘I teach my haggard and unreclaimed Reason to stoop unto the lure of Faith’, Sir T. Browne, Rel. Med. (ed. Greenhill, 19). F.hagard, ‘hagard, wild, unsociable’ (Cotgr.).
hailse,to salute, greet; ‘I haylse or greete’, Palsgrave; ‘Wee hadde haylsed eche other’, Robinson, tr. of Utopia (ed. Arber, p. 30). Icel.heilsa, to salute.
haine, hayne,a miser, a penurious person, a mean wretch. Skelton, Bowge of Courte, 327; Udall, tr. Apoph., Aristippus, § 22, Diogenes, § 106; Levins, Manipulus, 200; hence,haynyarde, a mean wretch, Skelton, Magnyfycence, 1748. ME.heyne, a wretch (Chaucer, C. T.G.1319).
hair:in phr.against the hair, against the grain, contrary to nature. Middleton, No Wit like a Woman’s, i. 1 (end); Mayor of Queenborough, iii. 2 (1 Lady); Merry Wives, ii. 3. 42.
hala;seeheloe.
hale, hall,a place roofed over, a pavilion, tent, booth; ‘Hall, a long tent in a felde,tente’, Palsgrave; ‘He would set up his hals and tentes’, North, tr. of Plutarch, M. Antonius, § 5 (in Shak. Plut., p. 161, n. 8). ME.hale, ‘papilio’ (Prompt. EETS. 211, see note, no. 961). OF.hale(F.halle), a covered market-place.
hale and ho,pull and cry ho!, a cry of sailors at work. Morte Arthur, leaf 118, back, 13; bk. vii, c. 15. ME.halynor drawyn, ‘traho’ (Prompt. EETS. 230).
half-acre,a small piece of ground, without reference to the exact size of the field; ‘Tom Tankard’s cow . . . flinging about his halfe-aker’, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, i. 2 (see note on P. Plowman, C. ix. 2, p. 156). At Yarnton, near Oxford, a ‘half-acre’, pronouncedhabaker, is a term employed for half a lot of an allotment, see EDD. (s.v. Half, 6 (1)).
halfendeale,half, half-part. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 9. 53. A Somerset word (EDD.). ME.halvendel, the half part of a thing (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. v. 335). OE.healfan dǣl, the half ‘deal’ or part.
half-pace;seehalpace.
halidom:orig. the holy relics upon which oaths were sworn; the ancient formula being ‘as helpe me God and halidome’; altered later to ‘by my halidome’, which was subsequently used by itself as a weak asseveration. Taming Shrew, v. 2. 100; Hen. VIII, v. 1. 117. In old edds. of Shaks. we findholydam(edue to association withdame, the phrase being popularly taken as equivalent to ‘By our Lady’; see NED. OE.hāligdōm, holiness, a holy place, a holy relic.
Hallowmas,the feast of All Hallows, or All Saints, Nov. 1. SpeltHallomas, Tusser, Husbandry, § 23. 1 (Hallontide, id., § 21. 1); Meas. for Meas. ii. 1. 128; Richard II, v. 1. 80. In prov. use in Scotland; also in Somerset, see EDD. (s.v. Hallow (7)).
halpace,a high step or raised floor. Hall, Chron. (ed. 1809, p. 606); ‘On the altar an halpas . . . and on the halpas stood twelve images’, Holinshed, Chron. iii. 857; also, through popular etymologyhalf-pace, the uppermost step before the choir of a church, Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, 98). F. (16th cent.)hault pas(haut pas), high step.
halse, haulse,to embrace. Pt. t.haulst, Spenser, F. Q. iv. 3. 49; ‘I halse one, I take hym aboute the necke,je accolle’, Palsgrave. See EDD. (s.v. Halse, vb. 9). ME.halsyn, ‘amplector’ (Prompt.), deriv. ofhals, the neck, OE.heals(hals). Seehause.
haltersack,a gallows-bird, rascal. Beaumont and Fl., King and No King, ii. 2 (1 Cit. Wife); Knt. of B. Pestle, i. 3 (Citizen). Gascoigne, Supposes, iii. 1 (Dalio). See Nares.
hame,a haulm, stalk; straw. Golding, Metam. i. 492; fol. 9 (1603); alsohawme, Tusser, Husbandry, § 57. 15. In gen. prov. use in numerous forms, see EDD. (s.v. Haulm). ME.halme, or stobyl, ‘stipula’ (Prompt. EETS. 212). OE.healm(Anglianhalm).
hamper up,to fasten up, make fast. Greene, Friar Bacon, ii. 3 (750); scene 6. 136 (W.); p. 162, col. 2 (D.).
han,pres. pl.have. Spenser, Shep. Kal., May, 168. This plural form is still in prov. use from Yorkshire to Shropshire, see EDD. (s.v. Have). ME.han: ‘Thei han Moyses and the prophetis’ (Wyclif, Luke xvi. 29);hafen(Lamb. Hom. 59). OE.habben(hæbben), pres. pl. subj. (Wright, OE. Gram., § 538).
hand:phr.to hand with, to go hand in hand with, to concur; ‘Let but my power and means hand with my will’, Massinger, Renegado, iv. 1 (Grimaldi).
hand over head,inconsiderately, recklessly, hastily, indiscriminately; ‘They ran in amongst them hand over head’, North, tr. of Plutarch, M. Brutus, § 28 (in Shak. Plut., p. 141, n. 3); cp. Warner, Albion’s England, bk. ix, ch. 51, st. 22. In prov. use, see EDD. (s.v. Hand, 2 (8)).
hands:phr.to shake hands with, to bid farewell to, to say good-bye to; ‘I have shaken hands with delight’, Sir T. Browne, Rel. Med. (ed. Greenhill, 66); ‘To shake hands with labour for ever’, Harrison in Holinshed (ed. 1807, i. 314). [Cp. Charles Lamb in Elia, Early Rising, ‘He has shaken hands with the world’s business, has done with it.’]
handsel, hansel,a gift or present, as an omen of good luck or an expression of good wishes. Dunbar, New Year’s Gift, iii. Asvb., to use for the first time, ‘My lady . . . is so ravished with desire to hansel her new coach’, Eastward Ho, ii. 1 (Touchstone). The verb ‘to hansel’, meaning ‘to use a thing for the first time’ is very common in prov. use in Scotland, and in various parts of England fr. Northumberland to Cornwall, see EDD. (s.v. Handsel, vb. 12).
handwolf,a tame wolf, wolf brought up by hand. Beaumont and Fl., Maid’s Tragedy, iv. 1 (Amintor).
handydandy,a children’s game, in which one child conceals something between the hands, and the other guesses in which hand it is. ‘Handy dandy, prickly prandy, which hand will you have?’ Chapman, Blind Beggar, p. 6. See EDD. (s.v. Handy).
hane,a ‘khan’, an Eastern inn (unfurnished); a caravanserai; ‘Hanesto entertain travellers’; Howell, Foreign Travell, Appendix, p. 84; ‘Hanesfor the relief of Travellers’, Sandys, Travels, p. 57 (Nares). Seecane.
hang-by,a hanger-on, a dependant. Gosson, School of Abuse, ed. Arber, p. 40; Beaumont and Fl., Honest Man’s Fortune, iv. 2 (Orleans). In prov. use in W. Yorks.; see EDD. (s.v. Hang, vb. 1 (5)).
hanger,a loop or strap or a sword-belt from which the sword was hung. Hamlet, i. 2. 157; B. Jonson, Every Man in Hum. i. 5 (Matthew).
hank,a hold, a power of check or restraint; ‘I have a hank upon you’, Otway, Soldier’s Fortune, v. 5 (Beaugard). In prov. use in various parts of England, see EDD. (s.v. Hank, sb.17).
Hans-in-kelder,a familiar term for an unborn infant. Dryden, Wild Gallant, v. 2; Wycherley, Love in a Wood, v. 6 (Sir Simon); Marvell, The Character of Holland, 66. See Stanford. DutchHans in Kelder, lit. ‘Jack in Cellar’, an unborn child; cp. the Swabian toastHänschen im Keller soll leben, ‘dies sagt man bei dem Gesundheit-trinken auf eine schwangere Frau’ (Birlinger); Bremen dial.Hänsken im Keller(Wtb.).
happily,perhaps, possibly. Titus Andron. iv. 3. 8; Hamlet, i. 1. 134; ii. 2. 402.
haqueton, hacqueton,a stuffed jacket worn under armour. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 8. 38. ME.aketoun(Chaucer, C. T.B.2050); OF.auqueton,alquetun, O. Prov.alcoton, ‘hoqueton, casaque rembourrée, originairement en coton’ (Levy); Span.algodon, Port.algodão, cotton, Arab,al-qotun, see Dozy, Glossaire, 127.
haras, harres,a stud of horses; troop, collection. Skelton, Against Garnesche, ed. Dyce, i. 128; l. 77. OF.haras, a stud of horses (Hatzfeld); Med. L.haracium, ‘armentum equorum et jumentorum’ (Ducange). Arab.faras, horse; cp. O. Span.alfaras, ‘cavallo generoso’; see Dozy, 108.
harass,harassment, devastation. Milton, Samson, 257.
harborough,‘harbour’, shelter. Spenser, Shep. Kal., June, 19; Tanered and Gismunda, v. 2 (Gismunda); in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, vii. 85. Seeherberow.
harborowe,to lodge; to track a stag to his harbour or covert. A hunting term. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 18, § 6;harbord, pp. lodged, Gascoigne, Art of Venerie, ed. Hazlitt, ii. 311, l. 6. See Dict. (s.v. Harbour).
hardel,a hurdle; ‘Hardels made of stickes’, Golding, Metam. i. 122; fol. 2, bk. (1603); a kind of frame or sledge on which traitors used to be drawn through the streets to execution, ‘Upon an hardle or sled’, Harrison, Desc. England, ii. 11 (ed. Furnivall, 222).
hardocks,some kind of wild flowers. In King Lear, iv. 4. 4 (ed. 1623), Lear is ‘Crown’d . . . with Hardokes, Hemlocke, Nettles, Cuckoo flowres, Darnell, and all the idle weedes that grow In our sustaining Corne.’ AsHardokesare not known, I suggest that the right word isHawdods; indeed, the quartos havehordocks. Thehawdod(described by Fitzherbert, Husbandry, 1534) is the beautiful blue cornflower, the most showy and attractive of all the flowers that grow in the corn; see EDD. The prefixhawmeans ‘blue’, see NED.; from OE.hǣwe, blue.
hare:phr.there goeth the hare, ‘That’s the direction in which the hare goes, that is the way to follow up’, New Custom, ii. 3 (Perverse Doctrine); in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iii. 39; ‘Hic labor, hoc opus est, there goeth the hare away’, Stubbes, School of Abuse (ed. Arber, p. 70).
hare,to frighten, scare. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, ii. 1 (Dame Turfe). In prov. use in Oxfordshire and the south country, see EDD. (s.v. Hare, vb.).
†harlock,an unknown flower; perhaps forhawdod, the blue cornflower. Drayton, Pastorals, Ecl. iv; Ballad of Dowsabel, l. 34.Harlocksis a conjectural emendation forhardokesin King Lear, iv. 4. 4. Seehardocks.
harlot,a vagabond, rascal. Tusser, Husbandry, § 74. 4; Coriol. iii. 2. 112. ME.harlot, a person of low birth, a ribald, rogue, rascal (Chaucer), see Dict. M. and S.; OF.herlot,arlot, ribaud (Godefroy); O. Prov.arlot, ‘gueux, ribaud’ (Levy). See Dict.
harman-beck,a constable. (Cant.) Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, iii. 3 (Higgen); Harman, Caveat, p. 84. Seehartmans.
harness,the defensive or body armour of a man-at-arms; the defensive equipment of a horseman. Macbeth, v. 5. 52;Bible, 1 Kings xx. 11; xxii. 34; ‘I can remember that I buckled his [the King’s] harness when he went into Blackheath field’, Latimer, Sermon, p. 101; see Bible Word-Book. ME.harneys, armour (Chaucer, C. T.A.1006). See Dict.
harnest,harnessed, armed. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 70.
harpè,a falchion, scimitar. Heywood, Silver Age, A. i (Perseus); vol. iii, p. 92. From Ovid, Met. v. 69, 176. L.harpē; Gk. ἅρπη, a sickle, a scimitar.
harper, harp-shilling,a coin having on the reverse an Irish harp, and worth only 9d.in English money; ‘Your shilling proved but a harper’, Heywood, Fair Maid of the Exchange (Cripple), vol. i, p. 26; ‘A plain harp-shilling’, Greene, King James IV, iii. 2 (Andrew). And see Webster, Sir T. Wyatt, ed. Dyce, p. 197, col. 1 (bottom).
harre,a hinge, of a door or gate; ‘Chardonnerau, a harre of a doore’, Cotgrave;out of harre, off its hinge, out of joint, Skelton. Magnyfycence, 921. In prov. use in Scotland and Ireland, see EDD. (s.v. Harr, 3). ME.Harreof a dore, ‘carde’ (Cath. Angl.); OE.heorr.
harres;seeharas.
Harrington,a farthing; as coined by Harrington (1613); ‘I will not bate a Harrington of the sum’, B. Jonson, Devil an Ass, ii. 1 (Meer). See Nares.
harriot,a heriot; a payment to the lord of a manor, due on the death of a tenant. Randolph, Muses’ Looking-glass, iv. 3 (Nimis); ‘A heriot or homage’, Howell, Famil. Letters, vol. i, letter 38, § 2 (1621). OE.heregeatwe, lit. military equipments. See Dict. (s.v. Heriot).
†harrolize,to ‘heraldise’, act as a herald, emblazon arms; ‘He harrolized well’, Warner, Albion’s England, bk. vii, ch. 35, st. 4.
harrot,a ‘herald’. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, iii. 1 (Sogliardo); Case is altered, iv. 4 (near the end). OF.heraut,herault. See NED.
harrow,interj., a cry of distress. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 6. 43. ME. ‘I wol crye out harrow and alas’, Chaucer (C. T.A.3286); Norm. F.harou, ‘Le cri ou la clameur deharoou deharouétait un appel public à la justice et à la protection’ (Moisy); see Didot.
harrow,to subdue, despoil. Spenser, F. Q. i. 10. 40. Used with reference to Christ’s ‘Harrowing of Hell’, or despoiling it by the rescue thence of the patriarchs, &c., as described in the pseudo-gospel of Nicodemus. See the passage from Legenda Aurea, cap. liv, quoted in Notes to P. Plowman, C. xxi. 261 (pp. 410, 411).
Harry-groat,a groat of Henry VIII. Beaumont and Fl., Scornful Lady, i. 2 (Young Loveless); Woman’s Prize, iii. 2 (Jaques); Mayne, City Match, ii. 3 (Aurelia).
hart of grece,a fat hart; ‘Eche of them slewe a harte of grece’, Adam Bell, 105 (Child’s Ballads, p. 251); Ballad of Robin Hood and the Curtal Fryar (Child’s Ballads, p. 299). See Nares (s.v. Greece).
hart-of-ten,a hart having as many as ten points on each horn, and therefore full-grown; ‘The total number of points, counting all the tines, is ten’, Cent. Dict. (s.v. Antler); ‘Whan an hart hath fourched, and then auntlere ryall and surryall, and forched on the one syde, and troched on that other syde, than is he an hert of .X. and the more’, Venery de Twety, in Reliquiae Antiquae, i. 151; ‘An Hart of tenne’, Gascoigne, Art of Venerie, ed. Hazlitt, ii. 311.
hartmans, harmans,the stocks. (Cant.) Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1 (Song); ‘The harmans, the stockes’, Harman, Caveat, p. 84. Seeharman-beck.
haskard,a base, vulgar fellow. Skelton, Garl. of Laurell, 606; id., Dethe of Erle of Northumberland, 24. See NED.
haske,a rush or wicker basket. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Nov., 16 (explained as ‘a wicker ped, wherein they use to carrie fish’); ‘Cavagna, a fishers basket, or haske’, Florio. See NED. (s.v. Hask).
hatch,a half-door, wicket with an open space above; ‘Ore [o’er] the hatch’, King John, i. 1. 171; ‘Take the hatch’ (jump over it), King Lear, iii. 6. 76; ‘As hound at hatch’ (i.e. like a dog set to watch the door’), Turbervile, The Lover to Cupid, st. 12 from end.
hatched,inlaid, or ornamented on the surface with gold or silver work; ‘My sword well hatch’d’, Fletcher, Bonduca, ii. 2 (Junius); iii. 5; ‘hatched hilts’, Valentinian, ii. 2. 7; deeply marked, Beaumont and Fl., Hum. Lieutenant, i. 1 (Antigonus); Custom of the Country, v. 5 (Guiomar); marked with lines like a thing engraved, marked with lines of white hair, Tr. and Cr. i. 3. 65; ‘hatched in silver’, Shirley, Love in a Maze, ii. 2 (Simple).
hatchel,to comb flax or hemp with a ‘hatchel’. Heywood, Rape of Lucrece, ii. 3 (Song); ‘Serancer, to hatchel flax, &c., to comb, or dress it on an iron comb’, Cotgrave. A Cheshire word (EDD.).
hate,forha’ it, have it. Puritan Widow, iii. 3. 141. Speltha ’t, riming withgate; Parliament of Bees, character 3.
hatter,to bruise, batter;hatter out, to wear out, exhaust with fatigue. Dryden, Hind and Panther, i. 371. In prov. use in Scotland and various parts of England (EDD.).
haught,lofty, haughty. Richard III, ii. 3. 28; Marlowe, Edw. II, iii. 2 (Baldock);haulte, Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. ii, ch. 2, § 1; ch. 5, § 2;haut, high-sounding, ‘The haut Castilian tongue’, Middleton, Span. Gipsy, ii. 2 (Pedro). OF.haut,halt, high.
haulse;seehalse.
haulte;seehaught.
haunt,to practise habitually. Tusser, Husbandry, § 67 (ed. 1878, p. 155). In ME. ‘to haunt’, reflex., was used in the sense of ‘to accustom’ or ‘exercise oneself’, ‘Haunte thi silf to pitee’ (Wyclif, 1 Tim. iv. 7). Norm. F.hanter, ‘aller habituellement en un lieu’ (Moisy). Icel.heimta, to bring home the sheep in autumn from the summer pastures; see Icel. Dict. (s.v. ii. 3). Cp. the use of the verb ‘to haunt’ in the New Forest, to accustom cattle to repair to a certain spot, see EDD. (s.v. Haunt, 4).
hause,to embrace; ‘I will say nothing of hausing and kissing’, Bernard, tr. of Terence, Heauton, v. 1 (NED.). A north-country pronunciation; see EDD. (s.v. Halse, 9). Seehalse.
†hauster,gullet (?); ‘Crack in thy throat and hauster too’, Grim the Collier, iv. 1 (Grim).
haut;seehaught.
hauzen,to embrace. Peele, Hon. Order of the Garter, l. 5, ed. Dyce, p. 585. Seehause.
havell,a low fellow; a term of reproach. Skelton, Why Come ye nat to Courte, 94, 604. Also spelthawvel(NED.). Origin of the word unknown.
having,possession, property. Merry Wives, iii. 2. 73; Twelfth Nt. iii. 4. 379.Havings, pl. wealth; Randolph, Muses’ Looking-glass, ii. 4 (Asotus). ‘Havings’, possessions, still in use in Yorks. (EDD.).
haviour,possession, wealth;havoir, Holland, Livy, xxiii. 41;havour, Warner, Albion’s England, xvi. 164; ‘Havoire, possession.’ ME.havure, or havynge of catel or oþer goodys, ‘averium’ (Prompt.). Anglo-F.aveir, property (Moisy);avoir, property, goods (Gower).
haviour,‘behaviour’; ‘Her heavenly haveour’, Spenser, Shep. Kal., April, 66; Merry Wives, i. 3. 86; Twelfth Nt. iii. 4. 226. See Dict. (s.v. Behaviour).
havok:phr.to cry havok, to give the signal for the pillage of a captured town; ‘They . . . did do crye hauok upon all the tresours of Troyes’, Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 175. 7; Jul. Caesar, iii. 1. 273. Anglo-F.crier havok(A.D.1385), OF.crier havo(A.D.1150), see NED. (s.v. Havoc).
hawdod,the corn bluebottle,Centaurea cyanus. Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 20. 28;haudoddes, pl., id., § 20. 4. Cp. OE.hǣwe, blue (in Erfurt Gl.hāwi), see Oldest Eng. Texts, 596. Seehardocks.
hawker,to act as a hawker, to haggle. Butler, Hudibras, iii. 3. 620.
hay:phr.to carry hay on one’s horn, to be mad or dangerous; from an ox apt to gore whose horns were bound about with hay; cp. Horace, Sat. i. 4. Herrick, Hesper. Oberon’s Pal., 176.
hay, hey,a hedge. Thersites, ed. Pollard, 1. 155; ‘A hay (implieth) a dead fence that may be made one yeere and pulled downe another’, Norden, Survey in Harrison’s England (NED.). In E. Anglia a ‘hey’ is the term used for a clipped quickset hedge. ME.hay, a hedge (Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 54). OE.hege, ‘sepes’ (Ælfric); cp. OF.haie, hedge (Rom. Rose, 50).
hay, hey,a country-dance, of the nature of a reel; ‘The antic hay’, Marlowe, Edw. II, i. 1 (Gaveston); Chapman, Bussy D’Ambois, i (Henry); ‘Rounds and winding Heyes’, Davies, Orchestra, lxiv (Arber, Garner, v. 39).
hay,interj., a term in fencing. B. Jonson, Every Man in Hum. iv. 7 (Bobadil); a home-thrust, Romeo, ii. 4. 27. Ital.hai, thou hast (Florio); cp. L.habet; exclaimed when a gladiator was wounded.
hay-de-guy(-guise),a kind of ‘hay’ or dance.Heydeguyes, pl., Spenser, Shep. Kal., June, 27; ‘We nightly dance our hey-day-guise’, Robin Goodfellow, 102, in Percy’s Reliques (ed. 1887, iii. 204). In Somerset and Dorset the word is used for merriment, high spirits, rough play, see EDD. (s.v. Haydigees).
haye,a net for catching rabbits. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1 (Surly); Two Angry Women, iv. 1. 14.Hay-netis still in use in Kent and E. Anglia (EDD.). ME.hay, nete to take conyys, ‘cassis’ (Prompt. EETS. 211).
hay-ree,a carter’s cry in urging on his horses. Nash, Summer’s Last Will (Harvest), in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, viii. 52. In prov. use in Derbyshire (EDD.). Seeha and ree.
hayte and ree,words used by a carter in urging on or directing his horses. Heywood, Fortune by Land and Sea, ii. 1 (Clown) (vol. ii, 384). In Yorkshire the carters say ‘hite’ and ‘ree’, as calls to the horse to turn to left or right, see EDD. (s.v. Hait). ‘Hait’ is in gen. prov. use in Scotland and England, as a call to urge horses or other animals to go on (id.). ME.hayt: ‘Hayt, Brok!,hayt, Scot!’ (Chaucer, C. T.D.1543). Cp. Swed. dial.häjt, a cry to the ox or horse to turn to the left. Rietz (s.v. Hit).
haytye,defiance. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 301, 17 (rendering ofahatinein the F. text). F.aatie,ahatie, ‘haine, querelle, provocation, engagement, lutte’ (Partonop. de Blois, 9585), alsoaatine,ahatine, fromahatir(aatir), ‘se hâter, s’engager à un combat, accepter une provocation’ (Chron. des ducs de Normandie); see Ducange. Cp.s’ahastir, ‘se hâter’ (Moisy).
haze,forha ’s= have us. Udall, Roister Doister, iii. 4. 7; iv. 3 (Roister).
hazelwood.‘Yea, hazelwood!’ (meaning, ‘why, of course!’), Gascoigne, in Hazlitt’s ed., ii. 23, 285. The exclamation implies that the information given is of a very simple description, and that the hearer knows a great deal more of the matter than the informant. In Chaucer’s Tr. and Cr. iii. 890, there occurs the fuller form, ‘Ye, haselwodes shaken’, i.e. Yea, hazelwoods shake (when the wind blows); in the same poem, v. 505, ‘Ye, haselwode!’.