He is
absconded.

_Hidybuck_, hide-and-seek, the game.

_Hile of Sheaves_, ten, 4 against 4 in a ridge, and 1 at each end.

_Ho_, to feel misgiving care.

_Hodmadod_, a little dod or dump; in some parts of England a snail.

_Holm_, ho'me, holly.

_Hook_, to gore as a cow.

_Honeyzuck_, honeysuckle.

_Ho'se-tinger_, the dragon-fly, _Libellula_. _Horse_ does not mean a horse,
but is an adjective meaning coarse or big of its kind, as in
horse-radish, or horse-chesnut; most likely the old form of the
word gave name to the horse as the big beast where there was not
an elephant or other greater one. The dragon-fly is, in some parts
called the "tanging ether" or tanging adder, from _tang_,
a long thin body, and a sting. Very few Dorset folk believe that
the dragon-fly stings horses any more than that the horse eats
horse-brambles or horse-mushrooms.

_Hud_, a pod, a hood-like thing.

_Ho'se_, hoss, a board on which a ditcher may stand in a wet ditch.

_Huddick_ (hoodock), a fingerstall.

_Hull_, a pod, a hollow thing.

_Humbuz_, a notched strip of lath, swung round on a string, and humming
or buzzing.

_Humstrum_, a rude, home made musical instrument, now given up.

J.

_Jack-o'-lent_, a man-like scarecrow.
The true Jack-o'-lent was, as we learn from Taylor, the water poet,
a ragged, lean-like figure which went as a token of Lent, in olden
times, in Lent processions.

_Jist_, just.

_Jut_, to nudge or jog quickly.

K.

_Kag_, a keg.

_Kapple cow_, a cow with a white muzzle.

_Kern_, to grow into fruit.

_Ketch_, _Katch_, to thicken or harden from thinness, as melted fat.

_Kecks_, _Kex_, a stem of the hemlock or cowparsley.

_Keys_, (2), the seed vessels of the sycamore.

_Kid_, a pod, as of the pea.

_Kittyboots_, low uplaced boots, a little more than ancle high.

_Knap_, a hillock, a head, or knob, (2.) a knob-like bud, as of the
potatoe. "The teaeties be out in knap."

L.

_Laeiter_ (5, 1), one run of laying of a hen.

_Leaen_ (1, 4), to lean.

_Leaene_ (1, 3), a lane.

_Leaese_ (1, 4), to glean.

_Leaese_ (1, 4), _Leaeze_, an unmown field, stocked through the Spring
and Summer.

_Leer_, _Leery_, empty.

_Lence_, a loan, a lending.

_Levers_, _Livers_, the corn flag.

_Lew_, sheltered from cold wind.

_Lewth_, lewness.

_Libbets_, loose-hanging rags.

_Limber_, limp.

_Linch_, _Linchet