Gunney. To look “gunney” means, to look archly or cunning. There is also the verb “to gunney.” “He gunneyed at me,” signifies, he looked straight at me. From the French _guigner_. Hacker, furze-, The. The whinchat, so called from its note, which it utters on the sprays of the furze. Hame. There is a curious phrase, “all to hame,” signifying, broken to pieces, used both here and in Wiltshire. Thus the glass, when broken, is said to be “all to hame,” that is, “all to bits.” The metaphor has been taken from “spindly” wheat on bad ground running to halm, from the Old-English _healm_, now the West-Saxon peasant’s “hame.” “All to,” I may add, is used adverbially in its old sense of entirely, quite, as we find it in Judges ix. 53. Harl, The. The hock of a sheep. Harvest-Lice. The seeds of the common agrimony (_Agrimonia eupatoria_) and “heriff” (_Galium Aparine_). _See_ Clivers, chap. xv. p. 166. Hell. A dark place in the woods. _See_ chap. x. p. 110. Herder. A sieve. _See_ chap. xvi. p. 185, foot-note. Hill-trot, The. The wild carrot (_Daucus Carota_), used also in Wiltshire. Most probably a corruption of eltrot, eldrot, oldroot, and so from the Old-English. These last forms are given in Mr. Barnes’ _Glossary of the Dorset dialect_, p. 336. Hoar-withey. The whitebeam (_Sorbus Aria_), which, with its white leaves, is very conspicuous in the Forest. We find the word used in the perambulation of the Forest in the twenty-second year of Charles I.,—“by the road called Holloway, and from thence to Hore-withey, in the place whereof (decayed) a post standed in the ground.” It is exactly the same as the “har wiðig” of the Old-English. It is called also, but more rarely, the “white rice.” _See_ chap. xvi. p. 183. Hoo, To. To simmer, boil; evidently formed, like so many other words, by an onomatopoëtic process (_See_ chap. xvi. p. 186). There is also the phrase, “the kettle is on the hoo,” that is, to use a vulgarism, on the simmer, or boil. Hoop, To go a. To go where you like. “He is going a hoop,” means, he is going to the bad. Hum-water. A cordial which is made from the common horse-mint (_Mentha aquatica_). Does “hum” here mean strong, as it is used in some counties with reference to beer? _See_ chap. xv. p. 166. Joseph’s Walking-stick. The Joseph’s-ladder of the Midland Counties, common in all the cottage gardens round the Forest. It is curious to notice, amongst our peasantry, the religious element in the names of both the wild and cultivated flowers derived from Catholic times. Thus we have ladies’ cushions, and ladies’ tresses, and St. Peter’s-wort, and St. John’s-wort, besides the more common plants, such as marygolds and ladysmocks, which every one can remember. Kittering. Weak. The more North-country word “tuly” is also heard in the same sense. Lance, To. To jump, leap, or bound. Used especially of the Forest deer, which in dry weather are said “to lance” over the turf.