ODER, GUD-BROTHER, _s._ brother-in-law.
GUD-DOCHTER, _s._ daughter-in-law.
GUD-SISTER, _s._ sister-in-law.
GUD-SYR, GUDSHER, _s._ a grandfather.
GUD-WIFE, _s._ 1. a wife; 2. a landlady.
GUDGIE, _adj._ short and stout.
GUFF, _s._ a vapour; a smell.
GUIDMAN, GUDEMAN, _s._ a proprietor of land; a farmer; a
husband.
_To_ GULLER, _v. n._ to guggle.
GULLY, _s._ a large knife.
GUMPTION, _s._ understanding.
GUSEHORN, GUISSERN, _s._ the gizzard.
GUSTY, _adj._ savoury.
GUTSY, _adj._ gluttonous.
_To_ GUTTER, _v. n._ to do anything in a dirty manner.
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 scrape; 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._ coarse 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_, hoar-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 sturdy 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._ t
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