HOBBIL,
HOBGOBBIN,

a natural fool, a blockhead. N.

HOBGOBLIN, an apparition, fairy, or spirit. N. HOBTHRUST, or rather Hoв o T'HURST, a spirit, supposed to haunt woods only. N.

HOBBETY-HOY, neither man nor boy, a young man between both. N.

HOB-NOB, (sometimes pronounced hab-nab) at a venture, rashly. N.

HOCKEY, the harvest-home.

Cambridgesh.

Norf. Suff. and

HODDY, well, pleasant, in good spirits; I'm pretty hoddy. S.

HODMANDOD, a shell-snail. S.

HOG, a sheep of a year old. N. Sometimes called hoggrel.

HOG-MUTTON, a sheep one year old. Lanc.

HOGGETS, hog-colts, colts of a year old. Hants.

HOIT, an awkward boy. N.

HOLE, hollow, deep; a hole-dish, a deep dish, opposed to shallow. N.

HOLL, to throw. Kent and Leic.

HOLLEN, or HOLLIN, the shrub holly. North. HOLLEN ; the hollen is a wall about two yards and a half high, used in dwelling-houses, to secure the family from the blasts of wind rushing in when the heck is open; to this wall, on that side next to the hearth, is annexed a sconce or screen of wood and stone.

HOLT, a wood. S.

HOLY-BY-ZONT, a ridiculous figure. N.

HONE, stockings. A contraction of HOSEN. North. HONEY, a term of endearment. North. Othello, Act. I. Sc. 1. HONEY-BAIRN, the same applied rather to children. North.

Hoo, he; but in the north-west parts of England most commonly used for she. HOOLY, tenderly. N

Hoop, a measure, containing a peck, or a quarter of a strike. N.

HOPPER-CAKE, a seed-cake with plums in it, with which the farmers treat their servants when seed-time is finished. Derb.

HOPPING-DERRY, a diminutive lame person. HOPPET, a little basket, chiefly for holding seedcorn, worn by the husbandmen, in sowing, at their backs, whence a man with protuberant buttocks is compared to a man accoutered with a hoppet, and styled hoppet-arsed, vulgarly hopper-arsed. N.

HOPPY, to hop or caper. Exm.

HORSE-BLOCK, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lanc.

HORNICLE, a hornet. S.

HORRY, mouldy: perhaps from hoary. Exm.
HORSE-KNOPS, heads of knapweed. N.

HOST-HOUSE, an ale-house for the reception of lodgers.

HOTCH; to hotch beans is to separate them from peas after they are threshed. Derb. To HOTCH, to limp. Lanc.

HOTTERED, provoked, vexed. Lanc.

HOTTLE, a cover for a sore finger. North.

HOTAGOE, to move nimbly, spoken of the tongue; you hotagoe your tongue. S.

HOVER, to stay or stop. N. Also to pack lightly, in order to defraud in measure. The hoppickers in Kent, who are paid by the basket, lay them lightly in for that purpose: this is called hovering them.

HOVER GROUND, light ground. S.

HOVEL, a shed in a field. North.

HOUSE; the house, the room called the hall. N. HOUSE-PLACE, the common room in a farm house.

N.

HOUSEN, houses. Berks. Saxon.

HOUT, a negative, as nay. N.

HOUDERS, i. e. holders, sheaves placed as ridges on corn-stacks to hold the corn down before the thatching takes place. Derb.

HOUGHER, the public whipper of criminals. Northumb.

HOUGHS, the legs and thighs.

HOUNCES, the appendage to the collar of a carthorse which covers his neck. Essex.

How, a narrow iron rake without teeth. C.
HOWDY, a midwife. N.

HOWKING, digging. N.
HOWLET, an owl.

HOYTS, long rods or sticks. Lanc.

HOZEE, to be badly off. Exmoor.

HUBBLESHEW, a riotous assembly. N.

HUCK-MUCK, a little tiny fellow, (thick stubbed). Exm.

HUCK, a crook, a sickle; quasi hook. Northumb. HUCKSHEENS, the hocks or hams. Exm.

HUD-STONE, the side of a fire-grate, to set any thing upon. North.

HUFF, light paste, enclosing fruit or meat whilst stewing, so called from its huffing or puffing up in the operation. This paste is generally made with yeast. Glouc.

HUG, to carry.
HULVER, holly. Norf.

HUMPSTRIDDEN, a stride. Lanc.

HUMMER, to begin to neigh. S.

HUNCH; a great hunch, a piece of bread. S.
HUNCHET, a diminutive of hunch.

HUNGER'D, famished. North. To hunger a person; not to allow sufficient food.

HUPH, a measure for corn, or dry goods. Northumb.

HURE, hair. N.

HURNE, a hole behind a chimney. North.

HURRY, (which Grose explains "a small load of hay or corn. North.") Rather the turn, as two or three hurries. A drawing or dragging. North.

HUSTLEMENT, Odds and ends. York, West Riding. Perhaps corrupted from HOUSHOLDMENT,

HUSHING, shuffling and shrinking up one's shoulders. Exm.

HUTHERIKIN-LAD, a ragged youth, between boy and man. Durham.

HYLE, twelve sheaves of corn. W.

HYPE; to hype at one, to make mouths at, or afAn ox apt to push with his horns is

front one.

said to hype. N.

ICCLES, icicles. N.

I.

ICE-BONE, a rump of beef. Norf.

I'FAKINS, in faith, an asseveration. N.

ILL; to ill, to reproach. N.

ILT, or ELT, a spaded sow. Exm.

IMP, to rob, or dispossess a person. Lanc.

INDER, (India) An inder, a great quantity; he is worth an inder of money; I have laid an inder of loads of gravel in my yard. Norf.

ING, a common pasture or meadow. N.
INGLE, fire or flame. N.

INKLING, a desire. N.

INNOM-BARLEY, such barley as is sown the second crop, after the ground is fallowed.

INSENSE, to make a man understand a thing; I cou'd na insense him, I could not make him comprehend it.

INTERMITTING, the ague. N. He has gotten an intermitting.

INWARDS; the inwards of a hog, the entrails, chitterlings, &c. Glouc.

I'R, I am; i. e. I are, and pronounced Ire. Lanc. See Tim Bobbin.

IRE, iron. Berks.

IRNING, rennet. N.

I'st, I shall. York, W. Riding. Pronounced Yst.