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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.
