The Broad Scots Dictionary

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Ha'Bible - "the great Bible that lies in the hall"
Haddin' - "home"
Hae - "to have
Haen - "had (the participle)"
Haet, fient haet - "a petty oath of negation, nothing"
Haffet - "the temple, the side of the head"
Hafflins - "nearly half, partly"
Hag - "a scar, or gulf in mosses and moors"
Haggis - "a kind of pudding boiled in the stomach of a cow or sheep"
Hain'd - "spared"
Hairst - "harvest"
Haith - "a petty oath"
Haivers - "nonsense, speaking without thought"
Hale or haill - "whole, tight, healthy"
Hallan - "a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly, a seat of turf at the outside"
Hallowmas, Hallow-eve - "the 31st of October"
Haly - "holy"
Hame - "home"
Hamely - "homely, affable"
Han' or haun' - "hand"
Hansel - "the first money received"
Hap - "an outer garment, mantle, plaid, etc.; to wrap, to cover, to hop"
Happer - "a hopper"
Happing - "hopping"
Hap - "step, an'loup, hop, skip, and leap"
Harkit - "hearkened"
Harn - "very coarse linen"
Hastit - "hastened"
Hastie or histie - "dry, chapped, barren"
Haud - "to hold"
Haughs - "low-lying rich lands, valleys"
Haurlin - "peeling"
Havins - "good manners, decorum, good sense"
Hawkie - "a cow, properly one with a white face"
Healsome - "healthful, wholesome"
Heapit - "heaped"
Hearse - "hoarse"
Hear't - "hearit"
Heather - "heath"
Hech! - "Oh! Strange!"
Heckle - "a board in which are fixed a number of sharp pins, used in dressing hemp, flax, etc."
Hee balou - "words used to sooth a child"
Heeze - "to elevate, to raise"
Helm - "the rudder or helm"
Herrin - "a herring"
Herry - "to plunder; most properly to plunder birds' nests"
Herryment - "plundering, devastation"
Hersel - "herself; also a herd of cattle of any sort"
Het - "hot"
Hilch - "a hobble, to halt"
Hilchin - "halting"
Himsel - "himself"
Hiney - "honey"
Hing - "hang"
Hirple - "to walk crazily, to creep"
Hissel or hessel - "so many cattle as one person can attend"
Hitch or Hitcht - "a loop, a knot"
Hizzie - "a hussy, a young girl"
Hoddin - "the motion of a sage countryman riding on a cart-horse; humble"
Hoddin-gray - "coarse woollen cloth"
Hoggie - "a two-year-old sheep"
Hog-score - "a kind of distance line in curling, drawn across the rink"
Hoodie-craw - "a blood crow"
Hool - "outer skin or case; a nut shell, a peascod"
Hoolie - "slowly; leisurely"
Hoolie! - "take leisure, stop"
Hoord - "a hoard; to hoard"
Hoordit - "hoarded"
Horn - "a spoon made of horn"
Hornie - "one of the many names of the devil"
Hostin' - "coughing"
Hosts - "coughs"
Hotch'd - "turned topsyturvy; blended, mixed"
Houlet - "an owl"
Housie - "diminutive of a house"
Hove - "to heave, to swell"
Hoved - "heaved, swelled"
Howbackit - "sunk in the back, spoken of a horse, etc."
Howdie - "a midwife"
Howe - "hollow; a hollow or dell"
Howff - "a tippling house, a house of resort"
Howkin - "digging"
Howkit - "digged"
Howlet - "an owl
Hoy - "to urge"
Hoyse - "to pull upwards"
Hoyte - "to amble crazily"
Hughoc - "diminutive of hugh"
Hums and hankers - "mumbles"
Hurcheon - "a hedgehog"
Hurdies - "the loins; the crupper"
Hushion or hoshen - "a cushion"