HAINE, vb. to protect, save.  Fergusson, 171; Psalms LXXVIII, 50;
    LXXX, 19; we’re hain’d, we are saved.  O.N. hegna, to hedge
    in, protect, hegnaethr, defence, Norse hegna, Dan. hegne,
    O. Sw. haeghna, to hedge in for the sake of protecting.  Cu.
    hain.

HAINED, pp. adj. sheltered, secluded, cp. a hained rig, Burns,
    8, 1.  In modern usage very frequently means “saved up,
    hoarded,” so hained gear, hoarded money.  See haine above.

HAININ’ TOWER, sb. fortress.  Psalms XVIII, 2; XXXI, 2; LXII, 7. 
    See hain.

HALING (h[-e]ling), pr. p. pouring down.  Douglas, II, 47, 31.  O.N.
    hella, to pour out water, helling, sb. pouring.  See Wall
    under hell.  We should expect a short vowel as generally in
    Eng. diall.  The form hale, however, occurs in Yorkshire too. 
    Both are from O.N. hella.  There is no Scand. or L.G. word
    with original a to explain hale, but cp. the two words
    dwell and wail, to choose. Dwell from O.N. dvelja,
    preserves both quality and quantity of the original vowel.  The
    Sco. form is, however, dwall.  Here the vowel has been opened
    according to Sco. tendency of changing e to a before
    liquids, cp. felag > falow, also frequently before other
    consonants.  Cp. the same tendency in certain dialects in
    America, so t[)a]ll or even t[-ae]l for tell, b[)a]ll for
    bell, w[)a]ll for well, etc.  If e before l in
    hell, to pour, was changed to a, as e in dwell, and
    later lengthened, we would have the form h[-ae]l out of which
    hale would be regularly developed, and so a double
    development from the same word, hell and hale. Wail, to
    choose, might be explained in the same way from O.N. vb.
    velja. Well would be the regular form, but this is not
    found.  The O.N. val, choice, is, however, sufficient to
    explain wail.

HAME-SUCKEN, sb. the crime of assaulting a person within his own
    house.  O.N. haeim-sokn, O. Dan. hem-sokn, an attack on
    one’s house.  O. Sw. hem-sokn, O.E. hamsocn, E. ham-socne. 
    See Steenstrup, pp. 348-349.  The word seems to have come into
    Eng. during the time of the Danes in England, though both
    elements are Eng. as well as Scand.  See Kluge, P.G.(2)I, 933.

HAMMALD, adj. domestic.  Douglas, II, 26, 7.  O.N. heimoll,
    heimill, domestic, O. Sw. hemoll, Norse heimholt. 
    Excrescent d after l quite common in Scand. and appears
    in Sco. in a few words.  See fald.