HEND, "to me full _hend_" (M11,_c_), courteous, civil, polite. "So loveth she this _hendy_ Nicholas."--Chaucer, _Cant. Tales_ (1383), 3386. HEY, "_Hey nonny nonny, ho for money_" (R222,_d_), if not a popular song, a popular refrain. The words occur in many old writers, not infrequently with an obscene meaning or reference: see _Slang and its_ _Analogues, s.v._ Nonny. HIE, "_Hie_ you forth lively" (M17,_d_), probably a snatch of some old song, which, however, I have been unable to trace. A somewhat similar reference occurs in _Misognus_ (Anon. Plays, 2 Ser., E.E.D.S., 185,_d_) during a dancing scene: "O lively with high, child, and turn thee; ah, this is good sport!" Although this does not settle the source of the saying, yet it adds force to Mankind's words. HIGH, "on _high_, on _high_" (JE357,_c_), a duplication necessitated by the rhyme--_Eli, Eli_, but all the same a very striking one. HIGHT, "Health I _hight_" (WH277,_a_), am called, have for a name: the only passive verb in English: see other volumes of this series. HIP, "have you on the _hip_" (R215,_c_), to have or get an advantage: see _Slang and its Analogues,_ _s.v._ Hip. HITE, "when man is a little _hite_ and wealthy" (WH279,_c_) = idle: in original _hit_. I take the word to be akin to the northern _hite_, to run up and down idly (Halliwell). Still, this may be wrong, and the now obsolete sense of _hit_ = to be fortunate or successful may be meant. HO (_passim_) is used in varying senses in all old writers. Thus _Ho!_ = a command to stop, cease, or refrain from the continuance of any action. Hence, as verb = to cry out, shout, etc. Whence many colloquialisms. _To be ho_ (JE367,_a_) = to be restrained, stopped, delayed; _out of all ho_ = out of all bounds or restraint; _no ho with_ = restive of control, out of hand; _let us ho_ = let us stop; and so forth. _Ho,_ _ho, ho!_ occurs in many old plays, being given to the devil or vice when making an entry. HOLPEN, "if it be _holpen_" (N54,_b_), helped: see Helpen. HOLYKE (M16,_c_). From the nature of the song itself it must be inferred that a triple pun was intended, _Holy_ (sacred refrain)--_wholly_ (holelyche = wholly)--_Hole-lick_ (osculare fundamentum): probably the "roof" was intended to be "raised" by the medley of interpretations thus offered, the business of each of the chorus being different. HOLY NATION (JE357,_b_), _i.e._ the Saints and redeemed. The reference to love and virginity is apparently founded on a passage in Revelations, attributed by many to St. John the Evangelist: see _Rev._ xi. 4, and John Evangelist, p. 416 _ante_. HOOD, "his hair groweth through his _hood_" (IP340,_c_; also R229,_d_), _i.e._ comes to poverty.