HANK, sb. thread as it comes from the measuring reel, a coil of
    thread.  Burns, 584.  See Skeat.  Cu. hankle, to entangle, is
    probably the same word.

HANSEL, sb. gift.  O.N. handsal.  Bruce, V, 120, hansell used
    ironically means “defeat.”  See Skeat.

HARN, sb. brain.  O.N. hjarni, brain, O. Dan. hiaern[e,], Norse
    hjarne, Dan. hjerne, O. Sw. hiaerne, haerne.

HARSK, adj. harsh, cruel.  Wyntoun, IX, 1, 27; Douglas, II, 208,
    17.  O.N. *_harsk_, bitter, as proved by Shetland, ask,
    hask, hosk, and Norse hersk.  Cp.  Dan. harsk.  O. Ic.
    herstr, bitter, hard, severe, is probably the same word,
    st to sk.  Cp.  Cu. hask weather, dry weather.  Shetland,
    hoski wadder, dry and windy weather (Jakobson, p. 68).  Dan.
    dial. harsk, bitter, dry.  For dropping of r, as in the
    Shetland form, cp. kask, from karsk, in “Havelok,” cited
    in Skeat’s list.

HARSKNESS, sb. harshness.  Dunbar, 104, 19.  See harsk.

HARTH, adj. hard.  Dunbar, F., 181; O.N. harethr, Norse har(d),
    Dan. haar(d), hard.

HAUGH, sb. a hill, a knoll.  O.N. haugr, a hill, Norse haug,
    Old Gutnic haugr, Cu. howe.  The O. Sw. hoegher, O. Dan.
    hoeg, hoew, Dan. hoei, Shetland hjog, hoeg, show later
    monophthongation.  Cp.  M.E. hou[*g], hogh.

HAVER-MEAL, sb. oat-meal.  Burns, 187, 32, 1.  Cp.  Norse,
    havremjoel, O.N. hafrmjoel, Dan. havre meel.  The first
    element of the compound is used especially in Scand.
    settlements in England and is probably due to Scand.
    influence.  An O.S. hafore exists, but if our word is native,
    it ought to be distributed in South Eng. diall. as well.  The
    second element of the compound may be Eng.

HAYND, sb. Douglas, III, 119, 6.  See aynd.

HEID, sb. brightness.  Rolland, I, 122.  O.N. haeieth, brightness of
    the sky, haeieth ok solskin, brightness and sunshine, haeietha,
    to brighten, haeiethbjartr, serene.  Cp. heieths-ha-rann, the
    high hall of brightness, an O. poetical name for heaven.  The
    Norse adj. heid, bright, like the Sco. word, shows change of
    eth to d.

HENDIR, adj. past, bygone.  Bruce, 10, 551.  Dunbar’s poem, This
    hendir Night.  O.N. endr, formerly.  Cp. ender-day in
    Skeat’s list.

HETHING, sb. scorn, mockery.  Wyntoun, IX, 10, 92; Wallace, V, 739;
    Douglas, II, 209, 7.  O.N. h[’ae]ething, sb. scoffing, scorn,
    h[’ae]etha, to scoff, to mock, Norse, haeding, scorn, mockery,
    O. Sw. haedha, hoedha.