rly to plunder birds' nests.

_Herryment_, plundering, devastation.

_Hersel-hirsel_, a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.

_Het_, hot, heated.

_Heugh_, a crag, a ravine; _coal-heugh_, a coal-pit, _lowin heugh_,
a blazing pit.

_Hilch_, _hilchin'_, to halt, halting.

_Hiney_, honey.

_Hing_, to hang.

_Hirple_, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.

_Histie_, dry, chapt, barren.

_Hitcht_, a loop, made a knot.

_Hizzie_, huzzy, a young girl.

_Hoddin_, the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble.

_Hoddin-gray_, woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one
black fleece with a dozen white ones.

_Hoggie_, a two-year-old sheep.

_Hog-score_, a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a
stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of "A hog, a hog!"
and it is removed.

_Hog-shouther_, a kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to
justle.

_Hoodie-craw_, a blood crow, corbie.

_Hool_, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.

_Hoolie_, slowly, leisurely.

_Hoord_, a hoard, to hoard.

_Hoordit_, hoarded.

_Horn_, a spoon made of horn.

_Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.

_Host_, or _hoast_, to cough.

_Hostin_, coughing.

_Hotch'd_, turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.

_Houghmagandie_, loose behaviour.

_Howlet_, an owl.

_Housie_, diminutive of house.

_Hove, hoved_, to heave, to swell.

_Howdie_, a midwife.

_Howe_, hollow, a hollow or dell.

_Howebackit_, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.

_Howff_, a house of resort.

_Howk_, to dig.

_Howkit_, digged.

_Howkin'_, digging deep.

_Hoy, hoy't_, to urge, urged.

_Hoyse_, a pull upwards. "Hoyse a creel," to raise a basket; hence
"hoisting creels."

_Hoyte_, to amble crazily.

_Hughoc_, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.

_Hums and hankers_, mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform.

_Hunkers_, kneeling and falling back on the hams.

_Hurcheon_, a hedgehog.

_Hurdies_, the loins, the crupper.

_Hushion_, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.

_Huchyalled_, to move with a hilch.

I.

_Icker_, an ear of corn.

_Ieroe_, a great grandchild.

_Ilk_, or _ilka_, each, every.

_Ill-deedie_, mischievous.

_Ill-willie_, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly.

_Ingine_, genius, ingenuity.

_Ingle_, fire, fire-place.

_Ingle-lo