HIGRE. _See_ BORE and EAGRE.

HIKE. A brief equivalent to "Be off," "Go away." It is generally used in
a contemptuous sense; as, he was "hiked off"--that is, dismissed at
once, or in a hurry. To swing.

HIKE UP, TO. To kidnap; to carry off by force.

HILL. In use with the Anglo-Saxons. An insulated rise of the ground,
usually applied to heights below 1000 feet, yet higher than a _hillock_
or _hummock_ (which see).

HILLOCK. A small coast-hill, differing from a _hummock_ in having a
peaked or pointed summit.

HILT. The handle and guard of a sword.

HIND-CASTLE. A word formerly used for the poop, as being opposed to
_fore-castle_.

HIPPAGINES, OR HIPPAGOGAE. Ancient transports for carrying cavalry.

HIPPER, OR HIPPING-STONES. Large stones placed for crossing a brook.

HIPPOCAMPUS. A small fish, so termed from the head resembling that of a
horse. They live among reeds and long fuci, to which they cling with
prehensile tails.

HIPPODAMES. An old word for sea-horses.

HIPSY. A drink compounded of wine, water, and brandy.

HIRE, TO. To take vessel or men on service at a stipulated remuneration.

HIRECANO. An old word for hurricane.

HIRST. The roughest part of a river-ford. A bank.

HITCH. A species of knot by which one rope is connected with another, or
to some object. They are various; as, clove-hitch, racking-hitch,
timber-hitch (stopped), rolling-hitch, running-hitch, half-hitch,
blackwall-hitch, magnus-hitch, marline-spike hitch, harness-hitch, &c.
(_See_ BEND and KNOT.) It also signifies motion by a jerk. Figuratively,
it is applied to an impediment. A seaman often _hitches up_ his
trowsers, which "have no lifts or braces."--_To hitch_ is to make fast a
rope, &c., to catch with a hook. Thus of old, when a boat was to be
hoisted in, they said--"Hitch the tackles into the rings of the boat."

HITCHER. An old term for a boat-hook.

HO! OR HAY! An exclamation derived from our Danish ancestors, and
literally meaning _stop!_

HOAKY. A common petty oath--"By the hoaky!" by your hearth or fire.

HOAM. The dried fat of the cod-fish.

HOASTMEN. An ancient guild at Newcastle dealing in coals.

HOAY, OR HOY! a word frequently added to an exclamation bespeaking
attention, as "Main-top, hoay!" and is chiefly used to persons aloft or
without the ship.

HOB-A-NOB. To drink cosily; the act of touching glasses in pledging a
health. An early and extensive custom falling into disuse.

HOBBLE. A perplexity or