hakke (A.S.) 420, _to follow, run after, cut along after_
halwe (A.S.) 327, _to hallow, consecrate, make holy_
hamlen (A.S.) +_part. pas._ y-hamled, 468, _to tie or attach_ (?)
handy dandy (A.S.) 69, the expression still used in Shropshire and Herefordshire
hange, honge (A.S.) 348, 384, _to hang_ (intransitive). _pret. s._ hanged, 19
hange, hangen (A.S.) 39, 392, _to hang_ (transitive). _pret. pl._ hengen, 25
hanylons (A.N.) 181, _the wiles of a fox_. See Sir Frederick Madden's Glossary to Gawawyn (v. _hamlounez_), who quotes the following lines from the Boke of St. Albans:--
And yf your houndes at a chace renne there ye hunte, And the beest begyn to renne, as hartes ben wonte, Or for to _hanylon_, as dooth the foxe wyth his gyle, Or for to crosse, as the roo doth otherwhyle.
hanselle (A.S.) 96, _gift, reward, bribe_. It is used in the alliterative poem on the Deposition of Richard II, p. 30:--
Some parled as perte As provyd well after, And clappid more for the coyne That the kyng owed hem, Thanne ffor comfforte of the comyne That her cost paied, And were behote _hansell_, If they helpe wolde.
hardy (A.N.) 413, _bold, hardy, courageous_. hardier, 354, _more bold_
hardie (A.N.) 321, _to encourage, embolden_
harewen, harewe (A.S.) 412, 414, _to harrow_. _pret._ harewede, _ib._
harlot (A.N.) 175, 270, 271, 303, 354, _a blackguard, person of infamous life_. The word was used in both genders. It appears to have answered exactly to the French _ribaud_, as Chaucer in the Romance of the Rose translates _roy des ribaulx_, by _king of harlots_. Chaucer says of the Sompnour (C. T. l. 649):--
He was a _gentil harlot_ and a kynde A bettre felaw schulde men nowher fynde. He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn, A good felawe to ban his concubyn, A twelve moneth, and excuse him atte fulle.
This passage gives us a remarkable trait of the character of the ribald, or harlot, who formed a peculiar class of middle-age society. Among some old glosses in the Reliquiæ Antiquæ (vol. i, p. 7), we find "_scurra_, a harlotte." In the Coventry Mystery of the Woman taken in Adultery (p. 217), it is the young man who is caught with the woman, and not the woman herself, who is stigmatised as a _harlot_.
harpen (A.S.) _to harp_. _pret. pl._ harpeden, 394