=Dirge=, from _dirige_ (= _direct_), the first word in the passage beginning Ps. v. 8, sung in the office for the dead. =Disease=, want of _ease_; pain. =Drawing-room=; originally _with-drawing_ room--that is, a room for retiring to after dinner. =Easel=, from Dutch _ezel_, a little ass. =Etiquette=, originally a _ticket_ on which the forms to be observed on particular occasions at court were inscribed. =Fare=, originally a _going_ or _travelling_, hence the price paid for such. =Farthing=, the _fourth_ part, hence the fourth of a penny. =Ferry=, places for _faring_, or travelling across a stream. =Ford=, places for _faring_, or travelling across a stream. =Frontispiece=, that which is seen in the front. Low Lat. _frontispicium_, from _specio_, I see. Not connected with _piece_. =Gad-fly=, the _goading_ or stinging fly. =Gaffer= = _gramfer_, West of England for _grandfather_. =Gammer= = _grammer_, West of England for _grandmother_. Compare O. E. _gomman_ and _gommer_, for _good man_ and _good mother_. =Gospel=, _God-spell_ (news of God, that is, life of Christ); commonly explained, however, as _good-spell_ (good story), as if a translation of Gr. _eu-anggelion_, from _eu_, well, and _anggelia_, a message. =Grocer=, should be _grosser_, from O. Fr. _grossier_, a wholesale dealer, a dealer _en gros_--that is, in the large. In older Eng., _grocers_ were called _spicers_. Compare the Fr. _épiciers_. =Groove=, something _graven_, or hollowed out. =Haft=, the handle or part of anything which we _have_ or hold in the hand. =Hamper=, Low Lat. _hanaperium_, a large vessel for keeping cups, from Low Lat. _hanapus_, a drinking-cup. =Handicraft=, _craft_ or trade performed by the _hand_. Compare _priestcraft_, _witchcraft_. =Handle=, (_v._) to touch with the _hand_; (_n._) the part held in the _hand_. =Handsel=, money _given_ in _hand_ (_hand_, and _sellan_, to give). =Hanker=, to allow the mind to _hang_ on or long for a thing. Compare _hank_ of wool. =Harbinger=, one who goes forward to provide a harbour or place of _safety_ for an _army_ (O. E. _here_, an army; _beorgan_, to protect). =Hatch=, to produce in a _heck_, a northern English word, meaning a hay-rack; a frame made of cross bars of wood; a hen-coop. Compare _bake_ and _batch_; _wake_ and _watch_. =Hatchment=, the coat of arms put up over a house, the master of which has lately died; a corruption of _achievement_. =Hawthorn=, the hedge _thorn_. A.S. _haga_, a hedge or inclosure. =Heaven=, that which is _heaved_, or lifted up above our heads. =Heavy=, that which requires much _heaving_ to lift. =Hinder=, to put or keep _behind_.