_Heal pease_, to hoe up the earth on them.
_Hidelock_, _Hidlock_, a hiding place. "He is in hidelock." He is absconded.
_Hile of Sheaves_, ten, 4 against 4 in a ridge, and 1 at each end.
_Hodmadod_, a little dod or dump; in some parts of England a snail.
_Ho'se-tinger_, the dragon-fly, _Libellula_. _Horse_ does not mean a horse, but is an adjective meaning coarse or big of its kind, as in horse-radish, or horse-chesnut; most likely the old form of the word gave name to the horse as the big beast where there was not an elephant or other greater one. The dragon-fly is, in some parts called the "tanging ether" or tanging adder, from _tang_, a long thin body, and a sting. Very few Dorset folk believe that the dragon-fly stings horses any more than that the horse eats horse-brambles or horse-mushrooms.
_Ho'se_, hoss, a board on which a ditcher may stand in a wet ditch.
_Humbuz_, a notched strip of lath, swung round on a string, and humming or buzzing.
_Humstrum_, a rude, home made musical instrument, now given up.
_Jack-o'-lent_, a man-like scarecrow. The true Jack-o'-lent was, as we learn from Taylor, the water poet, a ragged, lean-like figure which went as a token of Lent, in olden times, in Lent processions.
_Ketch_, _Katch_, to thicken or harden from thinness, as melted fat.
_Kecks_, _Kex_, a stem of the hemlock or cowparsley.
_Keys_, (2), the seed vessels of the sycamore.
_Kittyboots_, low uplaced boots, a little more than ancle high.
_Knap_, a hillock, a head, or knob, (2.) a knob-like bud, as of the potatoe. "The teäties be out in knap."
_Läiter_ (5, 1), one run of laying of a hen.
_Leäse_ (1, 4), _Leäze_, an unmown field, stocked through the Spring and Summer.
_Linch_, _Linchet_, a ledge on a hill-side.
_Maesh_ (2), _Mesh_, (Blackmore) moss, also a hole or run of a hare, fox, or other wild animal.
_Marrels_, _Merrels_, The game of nine men's morris.
_Mither ho_, come hither. A call to a horse on the road.
_Moot_, the bottom and roots of a felled tree.
_Nesthooden_, a hooding over a bird's nest, as a wren's.
_Netlèns_, a food of a pig's inwards tied in knots.
_Nitch_, a big fagot of wood; a load; a fagot of wood which custom allows a hedger to carry home at night.
_Orts_, leavings of hay put out in little heaps in the fields for the cows.