Hentyll, Æ. 1161. [Evidently _Custom_; no explanation.]
Hoastrie, E. I. 26. _Inn, or publick house_. C.
[Hocktide, H. 1. 25. _A festival celebrated in England antiently in memory of the sudden death of King Hardicanute A.C. 1042 and the downfall of the Danes_. B.]
Holtred, Æ. 293. [? _Hidden_, from B.'s _hulstred_.]
Hondepoint, Æ. 273. [Sk. renders (_every_) _moment_; K.B. and Speght give no help.]
Hopelen, Æ. 399. [_Hopelessness_--'I from a night of hopelessness am awakened.']
Horrowe, M. 2. _Unseemly, disagreeable_. C.
Horse-millanar, Ch. 56. See C.'s note. [According to Steevens a Bristol tradesman in 1776 so described himself over his shop-door.]
Huscarles, Æ. 922. 1194. _House-servants_.
Hyger, Æ. 627. The flowing of the tide in the Severn was antiently called the _Hygra_. Gul. Malmesb. de Pontif. Ang. L. iv. ['The eagre or "bore" of the Severn is a large and swift tide-wave which sometimes flows in from the Atlantic Ocean with great force.' Sk. II, p. 61, note.]
Hylte, T. 168. _Hid, secreted_. C.--Æ. 1059. _Hide_. C.
[Hylted, Hyltren, T. 47 .65. _Hidden_. C.]
[Iwimpled, H. 2. 528. _Muffled_ (Speght).]
Iwreene, p. 286. 9. [Evidently the same as K.'s bewreen, _expressed, shewn_.]
Keppend, Le. 44. [_Careful, precise,_ from B.'s kepen, _keep, take care of_.]
Kivercled, E. III. 63. _The hidden or secret part_. C.
Knopped, M. 14. _Fastened, chained, congealed_. C.
[Lack in C. generally = _to be in need of_ rather than simply _to be without_; cf. G. 176.]
Ledanne, Æ. 1143. [? _Leaden, heavy_; or it may be an adj. formed from K.'s leden (O.), _languish_.]
Lemed, El. 7. _Glistened_. C.--Æ. 606. _Lighted_. C.
Lere, Æ 568. H. 2. 597. seems to be put for _Leather_.
Lethal, El. 21. _Deadly, or death-boding_. C.
Levyn-mylted, Æ. 462. _Lightning-melted_. q?
Liefe, Æ. 217. [? from K. and B.'s lief, _rather_. Sk. renders _at my choice_.]
Ligheth, Æ. 627. [? _Lay low_, from K.'s lig, _lie_.]
[Lode, H. 1. 33. Probably as _load_, a _task_ or _burden_. Sk. renders _praise_, as if _land_; this is far from convincing.]
Lordinge, T. 57. _Standing on their hind legs_. C.
[Lurdanes, H. 1. 36. From B.'s 'Lurdane, lordane, _a dull heavy fellow_, derived by some from _Lord_ and _Dane_'. So the word becomes for C. an opprobrious equivalent for _Dane_.]