GULL, simpleton, dupe GUST, taste HAB NAB, by, on, chance HABERGEON, coat of mail HAGGARD, wild female hawk; hence coy, wild HALBERD, combination of lance and battle-axe HALL, "a --!" a cry to clear the room for the dancers HANDSEL, first money taken HANGER, loop or strap on a sword-belt from which the sword was suspended HAP, fortune, luck HAPPILY, haply HAPPINESS, appropriateness, fitness HAPPY, rich HARBOUR, track, trace (an animal) to its shelter HARD-FAVOURED, harsh-featured HARPOCRATES, Horus the child, son of Osiris, figured with a finger pointing to his mouth, indicative of silence HARRINGTON, a patent was granted to Lord H. for the coinage of tokens (q.v.) HARROT, herald HARRY NICHOLAS, founder of a community called the "Family of Love" HAY, net for catching rabbits, etc. HAY! (Ital. hai!), you have it (a fencing term) HAY IN HIS HORN, ill-tempered person HAZARD, game at dice; that which is staked HEAD, "first --," young deer with antlers first sprouting; fig. a newly-ennobled man HEADBOROUGH, constable HEARKEN AFTER, inquire; "hearken out," find, search out HEARTEN, encourage HEAVEN AND HELL ("Alchemist"), names of taverns HECTIC, fever HEDGE IN, include HELM, upper part of a retort HER'NSEW, hernshaw, heron HIERONIMO (JERONIMO), hero of Kyd's "Spanish Tragedy" HOBBY, nag HOBBY-HORSE, imitation horse of some light material, fastened round the waist of the morrice-dancer, who imitated the movements of a skittish horse HODDY-DODDY, fool HOIDEN, hoyden, formerly applied to both sexes (ancient term for leveret? Gifford) HOLLAND, name of two famous chemists HONE AND HONERO, wailing expressions of lament or discontent HOOD-WIND'D, blindfolded HORARY, hourly HORN-MAD, stark mad (quibble) HORN-THUMB, cut-purses were in the habit of wearing a horn shield on the thumb HORSE-BREAD-EATING, horses were often fed on coarse bread HORSE-COURSES, horse-dealer HOSPITAL, Christ's Hospital HOWLEGLAS, Eulenspiegel, the hero of a popular German tale which related his buffooneries and knavish tricks HUFF, hectoring, arrogance HUFF IT, swagger HUISHER (Fr. huissier), usher HUM, beer and spirits mixed together HUMANITIAN, humanist, scholar HUMOROUS, capricious, moody, out of humour; moist HUMOUR, a word used in and out of season in the time of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and ridiculed by both HUMOURS, manners HUMPHREY, DUKE, those who were dinnerless spent the dinner-hour in a part of St. Paul's where stood a monument said to be that of the duke's; hence "dine with Duke Humphrey," to go hungry HURTLESS, harmless