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ODER, GUD-BROTHER, _s._ brother-in-law. GUD-DOCHTER, _s._ daughter-in-law. GUD-SISTER, _s._ sister-in-law. GUD-SYR, GUDSHER, _s._ a grandfather. GUD-WIFE, _s._ 1. a wife; 2. a landlady. GUDGIE, _adj._ short and stout. GUFF, _s._ a vapour; a smell. GUIDMAN, GUDEMAN, _s._ a proprietor of land; a farmer; a husband. _To_ GULLER, _v. n._ to guggle. GULLY, _s._ a large knife. GUMPTION, _s._ understanding. GUSEHORN, GUISSERN, _s._ the gizzard. GUSTY, _adj._ savoury. GUTSY, _adj._ gluttonous. _To_ GUTTER, _v. n._ to do anything in a dirty manner. GUTTERS, _s. pl._ mire; mud; dirt. GUTTY, _adj._ gross; thick--applied both to persons and things. GYISARD, GYSART, _s._ children who go from door to door singing during the Christmas time. Masks are frequently used on such occasions. GYM, _adj._ neat and spruce. _To_ GYS, _v. a._ to disguise. GYTE, _adj._ foolish. _To gang gyte_, to act extravagantly or foolishly. --H-- HA', _s._ a hall. HAAFLANG, HAFLIN, _adj._ half-grown. HAAR, _s._ a fog; a chill easterly wind. _To_ HABBER, _v. n._ to stutter. HA-BIBLE, _s._ a large family Bible. HABBLE, _s._ a scrape; a perplexity. HACK, _s._ a chop in the hands or feet. _To_ HAE, _v._ to have. HAE, _v. n._ to offer anything. HAEIN, _s._ having. HAENA, have not. HALF-MERK-MARRIAGE, a clandestine marriage. From the price paid, viz. a merk. HAFFIT, _s._ the side of the head. _To_ HAG, _v. a._ to hew wood. HAGABAG, _s._ coarse table-linen. HAGBUT, _s._ a kind of firearms used soon after the discovery of gunpowder. HAGGIES, HAGGIS, _s._ a pudding made of a lamb's maw, lungs, heart, and liver, mixed with suet, onions, salt, pepper, and oatmeal, and boiled in the stomach of a sheep. HAILSOME, _adj._ wholesome; healthful. _To_ HAIN, HANE, _v. a._ to spare; to save. HAIR-MOULD, _s._ the mould which appears on bread. _Hair-ryme_, hoar-frost. HAIRST, _s._ harvest. HAIRUMSKARUM, _adj._ harebrained. _To_ HALD, _v. a._ to hold; to cease. HALE, HAILL, _adj._ whole; unbroken. HALF-MARROW, _s._ a husband or wife. HALLACH'D, HALLAKET, _adj._ crazy, boisterous; extremely frolicsome. HALLANSHAKER, _s._ a sturdy beggar; a person of shabby appearance. HALLAN, HALLON, HALLOND, HALLIN, _s._ a mud wall in cottages, extending from the front backwards, to shelter the interior of the house from the draft of the door when open. HALLOWE'EN, _s._ t
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