harlot (A.N.) 175, 270, 271, 303, 354, _a blackguard, person of infamous life_. The word was used in both genders. It appears to have answered exactly to the French _ribaud_, as Chaucer in the Romance of the Rose translates _roy des ribaulx_, by _king of harlots_. Chaucer says of the Sompnour (C. T. l. 649):-- He was a _gentil harlot_ and a kynde A bettre felaw schulde men nowher fynde. He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn, A good felawe to ban his concubyn, A twelve moneth, and excuse him atte fulle. This passage gives us a remarkable trait of the character of the ribald, or harlot, who formed a peculiar class of middle-age society. Among some old glosses in the Reliquiæ Antiquæ (vol. i, p. 7), we find "_scurra_, a harlotte." In the Coventry Mystery of the Woman taken in Adultery (p. 217), it is the young man who is caught with the woman, and not the woman herself, who is stigmatised as a _harlot_. harpen (A.S.) _to harp_. _pret. pl._ harpeden, 394 harrow (A.N.) 430, an exclamation, or rather a cry, said to have been peculiar to the Normans, the origin and derivation of which have been the subject of much discussion among antiquaries. It was the cry which every one was bound to raise and repeat, when any murder, theft, robbery, or other violent crime, was attempted or perpetrated, in order that the offenders might be hindered or secured. It was afterwards used in any great tumult or disorder, and became a general exclamation of persons wanting help. (See Ducange, in v. _Haro_.) In the Towneley Mysteries (p. 14), when Cain finds that his offering will not burn, he cries:-- We! out! haro! help to blaw! It wille not bren for me, I traw. haspen (A.S.) _to clasp_. y-hasped, 26 hastilokest (A.N.) 424, _most quickly, speedily, hastily_ haten (A.S.) _to call, order_. _pres. s._ I hote. _pret. s._ highte, heet, 445. _part. pas._ y-hote, hoten, hote, _called, ordered_ haten (A.S.) _to be called or named_. _pres. s._ hatte, _is called_, I hatie, 260, _am called_. _pret. s._ highte, _was called_ hater (A.S.) 273, _dress_ haterynge (A.S.) 299, _dressing, attire_ hatien (A.S.) 179, _to hate_ haven, have, han (A.S.) _to have_. _pres. pl._ han. _pret. s._ hadde, _pl._ hadden, hadde haver (A.S.) _oats_, 134, an haver cake, _an oat-cake_ heed (A.S.) _the head_. _See_ heved heele (A.S.) _health_ heep (A.S.) _a heap_ heeth (A.S.) 322, _heath_ hegge (A.S.) _pl._ hegges, _a hedge_ heigh (A.S.) _high_ +heyne (A.N.) 466, _hatred_ (?) heyre (A.S.) _hair_. _gen._ heris, 193, _hair's_ hele, heele (A.S.) _health_ hele (A.S.) 150, _a heel_ helen, (A.S.) 87, 445. helien, 241, _to conceal, hide_ helen, heele, 355 (A.S.) _to heal_. _pret. s._ heeled, 337. an helyng, 355, _in healing, in the course of recovering his health_ helpen, helpe (A.S.) _to help_. _pret. s._ halp, 403, 418, _pl._ holpen, 123. _part. pas._ holpen, 75, 303, 338, holpe, 115 hem (A.S.) _them_ hemselve (A.S.) _themselves_