_To know a hawk from a handsaw_, a corruption of “from a hernshaw” (i.e. _a heron_), meaning that one is so ignorant, he does not know a hawk from a heron: the bird of prey from the game flown at. The Romans had a proverb, _Ignorat quid distent ara lupinis_ (“he does not know money from lupines,” or beans); lupines were used on the Roman stage as money. We have a proverb, “He doesn’t know beans,” which may be descended from the Roman saying. =Hawthorn=, a jolly, generous old fellow, of jovial spirit, and ready to do any one a kindness; consequently, everybody loves him. He is one of those rare, unselfish beings, who “loves his neighbor better than himself.”—I. Bickerstaff, _Love in a Village._ =Haworth.= A starving lad, found in the snow at a foundry-door, becomes in time master of the works. He is imperious and greedy of power, making few friends and many foes. One human being believes in him—his mother—and when his ambition overvaults itself and he is ruined and in danger of being mobbed, she goes away with him into the darkness.—Frances Hodgson Burnett, _Haworths_ (1879). =Hay= (_Colonel_), in the king’s army.—Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.). _Hay_ (_John_), fisherman, near Ellangowan.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Haydn= could never compose a single bar of music unless he could see on his finger the diamond ring given him by Frederick II. =Hayle= (_Maverick_). Betrothed of Perley Kelso in _The Silent Partner_, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. He cannot sympathize with her religious and philanthropic views, and, recognizing the truth that she has outgrown him, acquiesces in her wish for a dissolution of the engagement. He marries dainty, feather-headed “Fly.” =Hayston= (_Frank_), laird of Bucklaw and afterwards of Girnington. In order to retrieve a broken fortune, a marriage was arranged between Hayston and Lucy Ashton. Lucy, being told that her plighted lover (Edgar, master of Ravenswood) was unfaithful, assented to the family arrangement, but stabbed her husband on the wedding night, went mad and died. Frank Hayston recovered from his wound and went abroad.—Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time, William III.). ⁂ In Donizetti’s opera, Hayston is called “Arturio.” =Hazelwood= (_Sir Robert_), the old baronet of Hazelwood. _Charles Hazelwood_, son of Sir Robert. In love with Lucy Bertram, whom he marries.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Head´rigg= (_Cuddie_), a ploughman in Lady Bellenden’s service. (Cuddie-Cuthbert.)—Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).