Part 7

'On past the steep wall of an ancient chalk-quarry, where the ploughboys search for pyrites, and call them thunderbolts and "gold," for when broken the radial metallic fibres glisten yellow.'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. v.

=Gold-cup= (pronounced _Gawl-cup_). The various forms of Buttercup. Cf. ~Gilcup~.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Golden Chain=. (1) Laburnum (S.). The general name for it in Wilts.--N. & S.W. (2) _Lathyrus pratensis_, L., Meadow Vetchling.--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Goldlock=. _Sinapis arvensis_, L., Charlock.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Go-now=, =Genow=, =Good-now=. Used as an expletive, or an address to a person (S.). 'What do 'ee thenk o' that, genow!' Also used in Dorset.--N. & S.W.

=Gooding Day=. St. Thomas' Day, when children go 'gooding,' or asking for Christmas boxes.--N.W.

*=Good Neighbour=. Jefferies (_Village Miners_) speaks of a weed called by this name, but does not identify it. See below.

=Good Neighbourhood=. (1) _Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus_, L., Good King Henry.--N.W. (Devizes.) (2) _Centranthus ruber_, DC., Red Spur Valerian (_English Plant Names_).--N.W. (Devizes.)

=Good-now=. See ~Go-now~ (S.). Used at Downton, &c.--S.W.

=Gooseberry-pie=. _Valeriana dioica_, L., All-heal.--S.W.

=Goosegog=. A green gooseberry (S.). Used by children.--N. & S.W.

=Goosehill=. See ~Guzzle~.

*=Goosen-chick=. A gosling (Wr.). *~Goosen-chick's vather~. A gander (Wr.). Both these words would appear to belong to Som. and Dev. rather than Wilts.

=Goosey-gander=. A game played by children (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Goosey-ganders=. _Orchis mascula_, L., Early Purple Orchis.--N.W.

*=Gore=. A triangular piece of ground (D.).

=Goslings=. _Orchis mascula_, L., Early Purple Orchis. See ~Gandigoslings~.--N.W.

=Goss=. _Ononis arvensis_, L., Restharrow. Gorse, _Ulex_, is always 'Fuzz.'--N.W.

=Gossiping=. A christening.--N.W., obsolete.

*=Gotfer=. An old man (H.Wr.). *~Gatfer~ is still in use about Malmesbury.--N.W.

=Grab-hook=. A kind of grapnel used for recovering lost buckets from a well.

=Graft=. (1) A draining spade.--N.W. (2) The depth of earth dug therewith.--N.W.

=Grained=. Dirty (A.H.Wr.); ~Grainted~ (B.); the latter being a mispronunciation.--N.W.

=Grains=. The tines of a gardening fork, as 'a four-grained prong.'--N. & S.W.

=Gramfer=. Grandfather (A.B.). ~Granfer~ (S.) and ~Gramp~ are also used.--N. & S.W.

=Grammer=. Grandmother (A.B.S.).--N. & S.W. Becoming obsolete.

=Grammered in=. Of dirt, so grained in, that it is almost impossible to wash it off. ~Grammered~: Begrimed (H.).--N.W.

*=Grampha-Griddle-Goosey-Gander=. _Orchis mascula_, L., Early Purple Orchis (_Sarum Dioc. Gazette_).--S.W. (Zeals.)

*=Granfer-goslings=. _Orchis maculata_, L., Spotted Orchis (_Village Miners_).--N.W.

*=Granny-jump-out-of-bed=. _Aconitum Napellus_, L., Monks-hood.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Granny= (or =Granny's=) =Nightcap=. (1) _Anemone nemorosa_, L., Wood Anemone.--S.W. (Salisbury.) (2) _Aquilegia vulgaris_, L., Common Columbine.--N.W. (Huish.) (3) _Convolvulus sepium_, L., Great Bindweed.--N.W. (4) _Convolvulus arvensis_, L., Field Bindweed.--N.W.

*=Grate=. Earth (D.).

*=Grate-board=. The mould-board of a plough (D.).

*=Gratings=. The right of feed in the stubbles (D.). See ~Gretton~.

=Gravel-Path, The=. The Milky Way.--N.W. (Huish.)

*=Gray Woodpecker=. _Picus major_, the Great Spotted Woodpecker (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 253). See ~Black Woodpecker~.

=Great axe=. The large English woodman's axe (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. iv).

=Greggles=, or =Greygles=. _Scilla nutans_, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. Cf. ~Blue Goggles~.--S.W.

*=Gretton=. Stubble (Aubrey's _Wilts MS._) See ~Gratings~.

=Greybeard=. _Clematis Vitalba_, L., Traveller's Joy, when in seed.--N.W.

=Greygles=. See ~Greggles~.

=Griggles=. Small worthless apples remaining on the tree after the crop has been gathered in.--N.W.

=Griggling=. Knocking down the 'griggles,' as boys are allowed by custom to do.--N.W.

=Grindstone Apple=. The crab-apple; used to sharpen reap-hooks, its acid biting into the steel. The 'Grindstone Apple' mentioned in the _Eulogy of R. Jefferies_, p. iv. is probably the 'Grindstone Pippin' of _Wood Magic_, not the crab.--N.W.

=Grip=, or =Gripe=. (1) To _grip_ wheat is to divide it into bundles before making up the sheaves.--N.W. (2) _n._ 'A grip of wheat,' the handful grasped in reaping (A.). It is _laid down in gripe_ when laid ready in handfuls untied (D.).--N.W. (3) _v._ To drain with covered turf or stone drains, as opposed to _frith_. To _take up gripe_, is to make such drains (D.).--S.W.

=Grist=, =Griz=. To snarl and show the teeth, as an angry dog or man (A.H.Wr.).--N.W.

=Grizzle=. To grumble, complain, whine, cry.--N. & S.W.

*=Grom=. A forked stick used by thatchers for carrying the bundles of straw up to the roof (A.B.G.).

*=Gropsing=. 'The gropsing of the evening,' dusk.--Obsolete.

'Both came unto the sayd Tryvatt's howse in the gropsing of the yevening.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ xxii. 227.

=Ground=. A field.--N.W.

'A whirlewind took him up ... and layd him down safe, without any hurt, in the next ground.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_ p. 16, ed. Brit.

*=Ground-sill stone=. Quarrymen's term for one of the beds of the Portland oolite--useful for bridges, &c., where great strength is required (Britton's _Beauties_, vol. iii).

=Ground-rest=. The wood supporting the share, in the old wooden plough (D.). _Rest_ is a mistake for _wrest_ (Skeat).--N.W.

=Grout=. (1) _v._ To root like a hog.--N.W. (2) _v._ Hence, to rummage about.--N.W.

=Grouty=. _adj._ Of the sky, thundery, threatening rain. It looks 'ter'ble grouty' in summer when thunder clouds are coming up.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Grump=. 'To grump about,' to complain of all sorts of ailments.--N.W.

*=Grupper=. To give up (Wr.). There would appear to be some mistake here, as we cannot trace the word elsewhere.

*=Gubbarn=. _n._ A filthy place, a foul gutter or drain (A.H.Wr.), ~Gubborn~ (B.). Should not this be _adj._ instead of _n._? Compare Devon _gubbings_, offal, refuse.

=Guggles=. See ~Goggles~.

=Guinea-pigs=, =Pigs=. Woodlice. See ~Butchers'-Guinea-Pigs~.--N. & S.W.

*=Gule=. To sneer or make mouths at (A.). Also used in Hereford.

=Guley=, =Guly=. _adj._ (1) Of sheep, giddy, suffering from a disease in the head which affects the brain and causes a kind of vertigo.--N.W. (2) Of persons, queer, stupid, or silly-looking. Compare _Guled_, bewildered, Berks. After being very drunk over-night, a man looks 'ter'ble guley' in the morning.--N.W.

=Gullet-hole=. A large drain-hole through a hedge-bank to carry off water.--N.W.

*=Gurgeons=. Coarse flour (A.).

=Gushill=. See ~Guzzle~.

=Guss=. (1) _n._ The girth of a saddle (A.B.).--N.W. (2) _v._ To girth; to tie tightly round the middle. A bundle of hay should be 'gussed up tight.' A badly dressed fat woman 'looks vor aal the world like a zack o' whate a-gussed in wi' a rawp.'--N.W.

=Gustrill=. See ~Guzzle~.

=Gutter=. To drain land with open drains (D.).--N.W.

=Guzzle=. (1) The filth of a drain (B.). (2) A filthy drain (A.B.). ~Goosehill~ (Wr.), ~Gushill~ (K.), and ~Gustrill~ (H.Wr.), the latter being probably a misprint.--N.W.

=Guzzle-berry=. Gooseberry. Used by children.--N. & S.W.

=H=. It should be noted that the cockney misuse of _H_ is essentially foreign to our dialect. Formerly it was the rarest thing in the world to hear a true Wiltshire rustic make such a slip, though the townsfolk were by no means blameless in this respect, but now the spread of education and the increased facilities of communication have tainted even our rural speech with cockneyisms and slang phrases.

=Hack=. (1) _v._ To loosen the earth round potatoes, preparatory to earthing them up. This is done with a 'tater-hacker,' an old three-grained garden-fork, which by bending down the tines or 'grains' at right angles to the handle has been converted into something resembling a rake, but used as a hoe. In Dorset hoeing is called _hacking_.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) *(2) _n._ The shed in which newly-made bricks are set out to dry.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

*=Hacka=. _n._ A nervous hesitation in speaking (_Village Miners_).--N.W.

'He speaks with so many hacks and hesitations.'--DR. H. MORE.

=Hacker=. (1) _v._ See ~Hakker~. (2) _n._ The instrument used in 'hacking' potatoes; also known as a ~Tomahawk~.--N.W.

=Hacketty=. See ~Hicketty~.

=Hackle=. *(1) _n._ The mane of a hog (A.H.Wr.). (2) _n._ The straw covering of a bee-hive or of the apex of a rick (A.).--N.W. *(3) To agree together (A.). (4) To rattle or re-echo.--N.W.

=Hagged=. Haggard, worn out, exhausted-looking. 'He came in quite hagged.' 'Her 've a had a lot to contend wi' to-year, and her 's hagged to death wi't aal.'--N. & S.W.

=Hagger=. See ~Hakker~.

=Haggle=. To cut clumsily. See ~Agg~.--N.W.

'They took out their knives and haggled the skin off.'--_Bevis_, ch. vii.

=Hag-rod=. Bewitched, hag-ridden, afflicted with nightmare. *~Haig-raig~, bewildered (S.).--S.W.

=Hail=. The beard of barley. See ~Aile~, which is the more correct form (Smythe-Palmer).--N. & S.W.

'The black knots on the delicate barley straw were beginning to be topped with the hail.'--_Round about a Great Estate_, ch. i. p. 8.

=Hain=, =Hain up=. _v._ To reserve a field of grass for mowing (A.B.D.).--N.W. Treated as a noun by Akerman.

'Three acres of grass ... to be hayned by the farmer at Candlemas and carried by the Vicar at Lammas.'--_Hilmarton Parish Terrier_, 1704.

=Haito=. A horse; used by mothers and nurses concurrently with _Gee-gee_. A contraction of _Hait-wo_, the order to a horse to go to the left. _Highty_ is similarly used in N. of England.--N. & S.W.

=Hait-wo=. See above.

=Hakker=, =Hacker=. To tremble (S.), as with passion (A.), cold, or ague. ~Hagger.~ To chatter with cold (H.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

'Bless m' zoul, if I dwon't think our maester's got the ager! How a hackers an bivers, to be zhure!'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 55.

=Half-baked=, or =Half-saved=. Half-witted.--N. & S.W.

*=Hallantide=. All Saints' Day (B.).

=Hallege=, =Harrige=. _n._ The latter seems to be the original form of the word, and is still occasionally heard; but for at least seventy years it has been more commonly pronounced as _hallege_, _l_ and _r_ having been interchanged. We have met with it at Clyffe Pypard, Bromham, Huish, and elsewhere in N. Wilts; but, so far as we know, it is not used in S. Wilts. _Havage_=disturbance, which the Rev. S. Baring-Gould heard once in Cornwall, and made use of in his fine West-Country romance, _John Herring_, ch. xxxix, is doubtless a variant of the same word. (1) Of persons, a crowd; also, contemptuously, a low rabble. 'Be you a-gwain down to zee what they be a-doing at the Veast?' 'No, _I_ bean't a-gwain amang such a hallege as that!'--N.W. (2) Of things, confusion, disorder. Were a load of _top and lop_, intended to be cut up for firewood, shot down clumsily in a yard gateway, it would be said, 'What a hallege you've a-got there, blocking up the way!--N.W. (3) Hence, it sometimes appears to mean rubbish, as when it is applied to the mess and litter of small broken twigs and chips left on the ground after a tree has been cut and carried.--N.W. (4) It is also occasionally used of a disturbance of some sort, as 'What a hallege!' what a row!--N.W.

=Ham=. (1) A narrow strip of ground by a river, as ~Mill-ham~ (A.D.). (2) See Haulm (S.).

=Hames=. Pieces of wood attached to a horse's collar in drawing (A.D.).--N. & S.W.

=Hanch= (_a_ broad). Of a cow or bull, to thrust with the horns, whether in play or earnest.--N.W.

=Hand=. (1) _n._ Corn has 'a good hand' when it is dry and slippery in the sack, 'a bad hand' when it is damp and rough (D.).--N.W. (2) _v._ To act as a second in a fight.--N.W. (3) _v._ 'To have hands with anything,' to have anything to do with it. 'I shan't hae no hands wi't.--N.W. See ~Hank~.

=Hand-box=. See ~Box~.

=Hander=. The second to a pugilist (A.). See ~Hand~ (2).--N.W.

=Handin'-post=. A sign-post.--N.W.

=Hand-staff=. The part of the 'drashell' which is held in the hand.

=Hand-wrist=. The wrist.--N.W.

=Handy=. Near to, as 'handy home,' 'handy ten o'clock' (A.B.M.S.). 'A gied un vower days' work, or handy.'--N. & S.W.

=Hang=. 'To hang up a field,' to take the cattle off it, and give it a long rest, so as to freshen up the pasture.--N.W.

=Hang-fair=. A public execution, as 'Hang-fair at 'Vize,' formerly treated as a great holiday.--N.W., obsolete. The Pleasure Fair at Warminster on August 11 is known as 'Hang-Fair,' perhaps from the hanging of two murderers there on that day in 1813. See _Wilts Notes and Queries_, i. 40, 139.

=Hang-gallows=. A gallows-bird (S.).--N. & S.W.

'"Where's the money I put in th' zack, you hang-gallus?" roared Mr. Twink.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 55.

=Hanging=. (1) The steep wooded slope of a hill.--N. & S.W. (2) A hillside field (S.).--S.W.

=Hanging Geranium=. _Saxifraga sarmentosa_, L.; from the way in which it is usually suspended in a cottage window; also known as ~Strawberry Geranium~, from its strawberry-like runners.--S.W.

=Hanging-post=. The hinder upright timber of a gate, by which it is hung to its post. Frequently heard, although ~Har~ is much more commonly used.--N.W. (Huish, &c.)

=Hanglers=. The hooks by which pots and kettles are suspended over open fireplaces in old cottages and farm-houses. See ~Coglers~.--N.W.

*=Hank=. Dealings with (S.). 'I won't ha' no hank wi' un,' will have nothing at all to do with him. Cf. ~Hand~ (3).--S.W.

*=Hants-sheep=, =Hants-horses=. See quotation.

'They were called [in Wilts] hants sheep; they were a sort of sheep that never shelled their teeth, but always had their lambs-teeth without shedding them, and thrusting out two broader in their room every year.... There were such a sort of horses called hants horses, that always showed themselves to be six years old.'--LISLE'S _Husbandry_, 1757.

=Happer-down=. To come down smartly, to rattle down, as hail, or leaves in autumn.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Haps=. (1) _n._ A hasp (A.B.).--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To hasp, to fasten up a door or box (A.B.)--N. & S.W.

=Har=. The hinder upright timber of a gate, by which it is hung to its post. A.S. _heorre_, M.E. _herre_, the hinge of a door. See ~Head~ and ~Hanging-post~.--N.W. (Marlborough; Huish; Clyffe Pypard.)

'We wants some more heads and hars cut out.' Carpenters about Marlborough usually reduce the word to a single letter in making up their accounts, as 'To a new R to Cow-lease gate, &c.'--Rev. C. SOAMES.

=Hardhead=. _Centaurea nigra_, L., Black Knapweed.--N. & S.W.

=Harl=. (1) _v._ To thrust a dead rabbit's hind-foot through a slit in the other leg, so as to form a loop to hang it up or carry it by (_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. ii). _Hardle_ in Dorset.--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To entangle (C.). _Harl_, knotted (A.S.), is a mistake for _harled_.--N. & S.W. (3) _n._ An entanglement (B.C.). 'The thread be aal in a harl.' A knot (Aubrey's _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 51, ed. Brit.)--N. & S.W. *(4) Of oats, _well-harled_ is well-eared (D).

=Harrige=. See HALLEGE.

*=Harrows=. The longitudinal bars of a harrow (D.).

=Harvest-trow=. The shrew-mouse (_Wild Life_, ch. ix); ~Harvest-row~ (A.H.Wr.)--N.W.

*=Hask=. A husky cough to which cows are subject (Lisle's _Husbandry_). See HUSK.

=Hatch=. (1) _n._ A 'wallow,' or line of raked-up hay.--N.W. (2) _v._ 'To hatch up,' to rake hay into hatches.--N.W. (3) _n._ A half-door (A.B.C.). 'Barn-hatch,' a low board put across the door, over which you must step to enter.--N.W.

=Haulm=, =Ham=, =Haam=, =Helm=. A stalk of any vegetable (A.B.), especially potatoes and peas.--N. & S.W.

=Haycock=. A much larger heap of hay than a 'foot-cock.'--N. & S.W.

*=Hayes=. A piece of ground enclosed with a live hedge; used as a termination, as ~Calf-Hayes~ (D.). A.S. _hege_ (Skeat).

=Hay-home=. See quotation.

'It was the last day of the hay-harvest--it was "hay-home" that night.'--R. JEFFERIES, _A True Tale of the Wiltshire Labourer_.

=Hay-making=. Grass as it is mown lies in _swathe_ (N. & S.W.); then it is _turned_ (S.W.), preparatory to being _tedded_ (N. & S.W.), or _spread_; then raked up into lines called _hatches_ (N.W.), which may be either _single hatch_ or _double hatch_, and are known in some parts as wallows (N.W.); next _spread_ and _hatched up_ again, and put up in small _foot-cocks_, _cocks_ (N.W.), or _pooks_ (N. & S.W.); finally, after being thrown about again, it is _waked up_ into _long wakes_ (N.W.), or _rollers_ (S.W.), and if not made temporarily into _summer-ricks_ (N.W.), is then carried. No wonder that John Burroughs (_Fresh Fields_, p. 55) remarks that in England hay 'is usually nearly worn out with handling before they get it into the rick.' Almost every part of the county has its own set of terms. Thus about Warminster meadow-hay is (1) turned, (2) spread or tedded, (3) put in rollers, (4) pooked; while at Clyffe Pypard it is tedded, hatched, waked and cocked, and at Huish waked and pooked. _Roller_ is pronounced as if it rhymed with _collar_. Hay is 'put in rollers,' or 'rollered up.'

=Hazon= (_a_ broad). To scold or threaten (A.B.C.H.Wr.). 'Now dwoan't 'ee hazon the child for 't.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Head=. The front upright timber of a gate. See Har and Falling-post.--N.W. (Marlborough; Huish; Clyffe Pypard.)

=Headland=. (1) _adj._ Headlong, as to 'fall headland' or 'neck-headland.'--N.W. (2) The strip where the plough turns at bottom and top of a field, which must either be ploughed again at right angles to the rest, or dug over with the spade; generally called the ~Headlong~ by labourers in S. Wilts.

=Headlong=. See ~Headland~.

=Heal=, =Hele=. Of seeds, to cover or earth over (D.); ~Heeld~, ~Yeeld~ (_Great Estate_, ch. viii). When the ground is dry and hard, and the wheat when sown does not sink in and get covered up at once, it is said not to _heal well_, and requires harrowing.--N.W.

=Heartless=. 'A heartless day' is a wet day with a strong south-west wind.--S.W.

=Heater= (pronounced _Hetter_). A flat iron (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Heave=, =Eve=. Of hearthstones, &c., to sweat or become damp on the surface in dry weather, a sign of coming change and wet. ~Eave~, to sweat (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Heavy= (pronounced _Heevy_). Of weather, damp. See ~Heave~.--N.W.

=Heaver=. Part of the old-fashioned winnowing tackle.--N.W.

*=He-body=. A woman of masculine appearance.--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Hecth=. Height (A.).

=Hedge-carpenter=. A professional maker and repairer of rail fences, &c. (_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. iii).--N.W.

=Hedge-hog=. The prickly seed-vessel of _Ranunculus arvensis_, L., Corn Buttercup (_Great Estate_, ch. vii).--N.W.

=Hedge-peg=. The fruit of the Sloe, q.v. Cf. ~Eggs-eggs~.--N.W. (Marlborough.)

=Hedge-pick=, =Hedge-speäk=. See ~Sloe~.--N.W.

=Heeld=. See ~Heal~.

=Heft=. (1) _n._ The weight of anything as poised in the hand (A.B.C.M.S.).--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To weigh or test weight in the hand (A.B.), to lift.--N. & S.W.

=Hele=, =Heel=, =Hill=. (1) To pour out (A.B.H.Wr.), to serve out or dispense.--S.W. (2) See ~Heal~.

=Hellocky=. See ~Hullocky~.

=Helm= (1) See ~Elm~. (2) See ~Haulm~.

=Helyer=. A tiler. An old word, but still in use.--N.W.

=Hen-and-Chicken=. (1) _Saxifraga umbrosa_, L., London Pride.--N.W. (2) _Saxifraga sarmentosa_, L., from its mode of growth.--N.W.

=Henge=. See ~Hinge~.

=Hen-hussey=. A meddlesome woman.--N.W.

=Here and there one=. 'I wur mortal bad aal the way [by sea] and as sick as here and there one.'--N. & S.W.

*=Herence=. Hence (A.B.).

=Hereright=. (1) Of time: on the spot, immediately (A.B.), the only use in N.W. (2) Of place: this very spot (S.).--S.W. (3) Hence (A.), probably a mistake.

=Hesk=. See ~Husk~.

=Het=. 'A main het o' coughing,' a fit of coughing.--S.W.

=Hetter=. See ~Heater~ (S.).

=He-woman=. The same as ~He-body~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Hicketty=. Hacking, as a cough.--S.W. ~Hacketty~.--N.W.

=Hidlock=. 'In hidlock,' in concealment. Akerman, by some mistake, treats this as verb instead of noun. 'Her kep' it in hidlock aal this time.'--N.W.

=Hike=. To hook or catch. 'I hiked my foot in a root.' See ~Hook~ and ~Uck~.--N.W.

=Hike off=. To decamp hastily, to slink off (A.B.C.S.); mostly used in a bad sense.--N. & S.W.

=Hile=. See ~Hyle~.

=Hill=. See ~Heal~.

=Hill-trot=. Apparently a corruption of ~Eltrot~. (1) _Heracleum Sphondylium_, L., Cow-parsnip. *(2) _Oenanthe crocata_, L., Water Hemlock.--S.W. (Charlton and Barford.)

=Hilp=. Fruit of the sloe.--N.W.

=Hilp-wine=. Sloe-wine.--N.W.

=Hilt=. A young sow kept for breeding (A.).--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Hinge=, =Henge=. The heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep or pig (A.). In some parts of S. Wilts used only of the latter.--N. & S.W.

=Hinted= Harvested, secured in barn (D.). 'Never zeed a better crop o' wheat, if so be could be hinted well.' A.S. _hentan_, to seize on, to secure.--N.W.

=Hit=. (1) To bear a good crop, to succeed: as 'Th' apples hit well t' year.' Treated by Akerman as a noun instead of a verb.--N.W. (2) _v._ To pour out or throw out. 'You ought to het a quart o' drenk into 'ee.' 'Hit it out on the garden patch.'--N.W.

=Hitchland=. See ~Hookland~.

=Hitter=. A cow which is ill and appears likely to die is said to be 'going off a hitter.'--N.W.

=Hittery=. Of cows: suffering from looseness, ill.--N.W.

=Hobby=. _Yunx torquilla_, the Wryneck.--S.W. (Bishopstone.).

*=Hob-lantern=. Will-o'-the-Wisp (A.B.).

=Hock about=. To treat a thing carelessly; drag it through the mud. 'Now dwoan't 'ee gwo a-hocken on your new vrock about.'--N.W. The usual form in S. Wilts is ~Hack-about~.

=Hocks=. (1) To cut in an unworkmanlike manner (A.). (2) To trample earth into a muddy, untidy condition.--N.W.

=Hocksy=, =Hoxy=. Dirty, muddy, miry.--N.W.

'It's about two miles in vine weather; but when it's hocksey like this, we allows a mile vor zlippin' back!'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 179.

*=Hodmandod=, =Hodmedod=. _adj._ Short and clumsy (B.).

=Hodmedod=. (1) _n._ A snail.--N.W. (Mildenhall.) *(2) Short and clumsy (B.). See ~Hodmandod~.

=Ho for=. (1) To provide for. See ~Howed for~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard; Malmesbury.) (2) To desire, to long for. 'I did hankeran' ho a'ter 'ee zo.'--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Hog=. (1) n. Originally a castrated animal, as a hog pig (D.). (2) Now extended to any animal of a year old, as a chilver hog sheep (D.).

'We have wether hogs, and chilver hogs, and shear hogs ... the word hog is now applied to any animal of a year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ xvii 303.

'1580 ... Una ovis vocata a hogge.'--SCROPE'S _History of Castle Combe_.

(3) To cut a mane or hedge short (D.), so that the stumps stick up like bristles (_Village Miners_).--N. & S.W.

=Hogo=. (Fr. _haut goût_). A bad smell (_Monthly Mag._ 1814). Still frequently used of tainted meat or strong cheese.--N. & S.W.

*=Hollardy-day=. The 3rd of May. Apparently a perversion of 'Holy Rood Day.'--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Home, to be called=. To have the banns of marriage published.--S.W.

'They tells I as 'ow Bet Stingymir is gwain to be caal'd whoam to Jim Spritely on Zundy.'--_Slow._

=Honesty=. _Clematis Vitalba_, L., Traveller's Joy, occasionally. *~Maiden's Honesty~ (Aubrey's Wilts MS.).--N.W.

=Honey-bottle=. (1) Heather. (2) Furze. It is not clear which is intended in _Great Estate_, ch. i.

*=Honey-plant=. Some old-fashioned sweet-scented plant, perhaps the dark Sweet Scabious, which used to be known as 'Honey-flower' in some counties.

'In the garden, which was full of old-fashioned shrubs and herbs, she watched the bees busy at the sweet-scented "honey-plant."'--_Great Estate_, ch. ii.

Also see _Reproach of Annesley_, vol. i. p. 119, for Hants use of the name:--

'Sibyl bent over a honey plant encrusted with pink-scented blossoms, about which the bees ... were humming--an old-fashioned cottage plant.'