HAILSE, _vb._ to greet, salute. Bruce, II, 153; C.S., 141. O.N. _helsa_, older _hæilsa_, to hailsay one, to greet, O. Sw. _helsa_, Dan. _hilse_, Norse _helsa_, id., M.E. _hailsen_. This word is entirely different from O.E. _healsian_, which is _heals_ + _ian_ and meant "beseech, implore," literally "embrace." The form of this was _halsian_ in O. Nhb., from which Sco. _hawse_, to embrace. HAILSING, HALSING, _sb._ a salute, greeting. Douglas, II, 243, 31; Dunbar "Freires of Berwick" 57; Rosw. and Lill. 589. O.N., O. Sw., Norse _helsa_, see above; Norse _helsing_, Dan. _hilsning_, a greeting. _Hailsing_ formed direct from the vb. _hailse_. HAINE, _vb._ to protect, save. Fergusson, 171; Psalms LXXVIII, 50; LXXX, 19; _we're hain'd_, we are saved. O.N. _hegna_, to hedge in, protect, _hegnaðr_, defence, Norse _hegna_, Dan. _hegne_, O. Sw. _häghna_, to hedge in for the sake of protecting. Cu. _hain_. HAINED, _pp. adj._ sheltered, secluded, cp. _a hained rig_, Burns, 8, 1. In modern usage very frequently means "saved up, hoarded," so _hained gear_, hoarded money. See _haine_ above. HAININ' TOWER, _sb._ fortress. Psalms XVIII, 2; XXXI, 2; LXII, 7. See _hain_. HALING (hēling), _pr. p._ pouring down. Douglas, II, 47, 31. O.N. _hella_, to pour out water, _helling_, sb. pouring. See Wall under _hell_. We should expect a short vowel as generally in Eng. diall. The form _hale_, however, occurs in Yorkshire too. Both are from O.N. _hella_. There is no Scand. or L.G. word with original _a_ to explain _hale_, but cp. the two words _dwell_ and _wail_, to choose. _Dwell_ from O.N. _dvelja_, preserves both quality and quantity of the original vowel. The Sco. form is, however, _dwall_. Here the vowel has been opened according to Sco. tendency of changing _e_ to _a_ before liquids, cp. _félag_ > _falow_, also frequently before other consonants. Cp. the same tendency in certain dialects in America, so _tăll_ or even _tǣl_ for _tell, băll_ for _bell_, _wăll_ for _well_, etc. If _e_ before _l_ in _hell_, to pour, was changed to _a_, as _e_ in _dwell_, and later lengthened, we would have the form _hǣl_ out of which _hale_ would be regularly developed, and so a double development from the same word, _hell_ and _hale_. _Wail_, to choose, might be explained in the same way from O.N. vb. _velja_. _Well_ would be the regular form, but this is not found. The O.N. _val_, choice, is, however, sufficient to explain _wail_. HAME-SUCKEN, _sb._ the crime of assaulting a person within his own house. O.N. _hæim-sókn_, O. Dan. _hem-sokn_, an attack on one's house. O. Sw. _hem-sokn_, O.E. _hamsocn_, E. _ham- socne_. See Steenstrup, pp. 348-349. The word seems to have come into Eng. during the time of the Danes in England, though both elements are Eng. as well as Scand. See Kluge, P.G.(2)I, 933.