Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
Honde-whyle, a moment, B. 1786. A.S. _hand-hwíl_; “in a _hond-while_,”
T. B. 406.
Hone, to delay, abide, A. 921. See Met. Hom., p. 129.
Honest, B. 14, 18.
Honestly, B. 134, 705.
Honour, A. 852; B. 594.
Honyseȝ, destroys, ruins, B. 596. O.Fr. _honeison_, shame; _honnir_,
to shame, blame, borrowed from Goth, _haunjan_. Ger. _höhnen_.
“And Alexander alle that quile asperly rydis
To the grete flode of Granton, and it one a glance fyndes,
Or he was soȝt to the side ȝit sondird the qweryns,
His hors it _hunyschist_ for evir, and he with hard schapid.”
--(K. Alex. p. 102.)
Hope, expect, think, suppose, A. 142; B. 663.
Hores, theirs, C. 14.
Hores (?), B. 1695.
Hortyng, _sb._ hurting, harm, B. 740.
Horwed, unclean, B. 335. A.S. _horwa_, _hóru_, dirt; _hyrwian_, to
defile.
Horyed, hurried, B. 883.
{Hot, Hote,} angry, B. 200.
Hourlande, rolling, rushing, hurling, C. 271.
Hourle, wave, C. 319.
Household, B. 18.
Houe, abide, B. 927. W. _hofian_; _hofio_, to fluctuate, hover,
suspend.
Houeȝ, hovers, B. 458, 485.
Houen, exalted, raised, B. 206, 413, 1451.
Hue, cry, voice, A. 873.
{Hue, Huee,} hue, complexion, A. 842; B. 1483.
Huge, great, B. 4, 1659.
Hunger, _vb._ C. 19.
Hurkele, hang, B. 150; rest, 406. The original meaning is to nestle,
crouch, squat. N.Prov.E. _hurkle_, to squat, crouch, nestle. Du.
_hurken_, to squat. O.N. _hruka_.
“Then come ther in a litill brid into his arme fleȝe,
And ther _hurkils_ and hydis as sche were hande tame,
Fast scho flekirs about his fete, and fleȝtirs aboute.”
--(K. Alex. p. 18.)
Hurlande, hurling, rushing, B. 413, 1211.
Hurle, rush, B. 44, 223, 376, 874, 1204; “_hurlet_ out of houses,”
T. B. 1365.
Hurrok, oar, B. 419; C. 185. Prov.E. _orruck_. “_Orruck_-holes,
oar-drawing holes, as distinct from thole-pins, which are less used
in our boats: _rykke_, to draw (Dan.). Compare English _rullocks_.”
Norfolk Words: Miss A. Gurney in Transactions of Philological
Society for 1855, p. 34.
Huyde, hide, B. 915.
Huyle, while, A. 41.
Hwe, hue, A. 896; _hwes_, B. 1119.
Hwed, coloured, B. 1045.
Hyde, skin, A. 1136.
Hyl-coppe, hill-top, A. 791. See _Coppe_.
Hynde = hende, courteous, A. 909; B. 1098.
Hyne, servants; _hinds_, A. 505, 632, 1211. A.S. _hina_, _hine_ (for
_higna_, _higne_), a domestic. O.N. _hion_, family.
Hyre, _sb._ hire, wages, A. 534, 539.
Hyre, _vb._ A. 507, 560.
Hyrne, corner, B. 1294; C. 178. A.S. _hyrne_. “Hyd hom in houles and
_hyrnys_ aboute,” T. B. 1362.
Hytteȝ, strives, seeks, A. 132.
Hyue, hive, B. 223.
Hyure, hire, C. 56.
Hyȝe, high grounds, heights, B. 391.
{Hyȝe, Hyȝ,} high, A. 39, 395; B. 380; “on _hyȝe_,” B. 413; “_hyȝe_
trot,” quick pace, B. 976.
Hyȝe, hie, hasten, B. 33, 392, 538; C. 217. A.S. _higan_, _higian_.
Hyȝe, labourer, servant, B. 67. A.S. _higo_, a servant. See _Hine_.
Hyȝly, greatly, B. 1527.
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