HACK to become common

HAGGARD a wild or unreclaimed hawk

HAG-SEED seed or offspring of a hag

HAIR course, order, grain

HALIDOM holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship; used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'

HALL an open space to dance in

HALLOWMAS All Hallows' Day

HAP chance, fortune

HAPPILY accidentally

HANDSAW perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern

HARDIMENT defiance, brave deeds

HARLOCK charlock, wild mustard

HARRY to annoy, harass

HAUGHT haughty

HAUNT company

HAVING property, fortune

HAVIOUR behavior

HAY a term in fencing

HEADY violent, headlong

HEAT of 'to heat,' heated

HEBENON henbane

HEFT a heaving

HEFT furnished with a handle: hence, metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed

HELM to steer, manage

HENCE henceforward

HENCHMAN a page or attendant

HENT to seize, take

HERMIT a beadsman, one bound to pray for another

HEST command

HIGH used in composition with adjectives to heighten or emphasize their signification, as, high- fantastical

HIGHT called

HILD held

HILDING a paltry fellow

HINT suggestion

HIREN a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'

HIT to agree

HOISE to hoist, heave up on high

HOIST hoisted

HOLP to help; helped

HOME to the utmost

HONEST chaste

HONESTY chastity

HONEY-STALKS the red clover

HOODMAN-BLIND the game now called blindman's-buff

HORN-MAD probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad

HOROLOGE a clock

HOT-HOUSE a brothel

HOX to hamstring

HUGGER-MUGGER secresy

HULL to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship

HUMOROUS fitful, or, perhaps, hurried

HUNT-COUNTER to follow the scent the wrong way

HUNTS-UP a holla used in hunting when the game was on foot

HURLY noise, confusion

HURTLE to clash

HURTLING noise, confusion

HUSBANDRY frugality Management

HUSWIFE a jilt