HING, vb. to hang.  Lindsay, 527, 4033; Gol. and Gaw., 438; Psalms
    LXIX, 6.  Same as Cu. hing, for which see Wall.

HOOLI, HULIE, adj. quiet, slow, leisurely, careful.  Dalr., I, 149,
    27; A.P.B., 41; Fergusson, 54.  O.N., hogligr, easy, gentle,
    hogleiki, meekness, hoglifi, a quiet life, hoglyndr,
    good-natured.

HUGSUM, adj. horrible.  Wyntoun, VII, 5, 176.  See ug, to fear.

HUSBAND, sb. a small farmer.  Bruce, X, 387; VII, 151.  O.N. hus-
     bondi, a house-master.  See Skeat.  For full discussion of this
    word as well as bonde, see Steenstrup, 97-100.

ILL, adj. evil, wicked.  Bruce, III, 10.  O.N. illr, adj. bad,
    Norse ill, idl, cross, angry, Dan. ilde, adv. badly.  As
    an adv. common in M.E.  The adj. use of it more specifically
    Sco. as in Norse.  See Skeat.

IRKE, vb. to weary, to suffer.  Dunbar, F., 429; R.R., 456; L.L.,
    2709.  O.N. yrkja, to work, take effect, O. Sw. yrkja,
    O. Dan. yrki (Schlyter), Sw. yrke, to urge, enforce, Norse
    orka, be able, always used in the sense of “barely being
    able to,” or, with the negative, “not being able to.”  Ramsay
    uses the word in the sense of “being vexed.”

IRKE, adj. weary, lazy.  Dunbar, 270, 36; R.R., 3570.  See irke,
    vb. Irkit, pp. adj. tired, Montg., M.P., 521.

IRKING, sb. delay.  Winyet, II, 76; I. Deriv. from irke, vb.

ITHANDLY, YTHANDLY, YDANLIE, adv. busily, assiduously.  Dalr., II,
    36, 12; R.R., 36, 95.  O.N. iethinn, busy.  See eident.

KARPING, CARPING, sb. speech, address.  Wyntoun, VIII, 18, 85;
    VIII, 18, 189; IX, 9, 34.  See carp.

KEIK, KEK, vb. to peep, to pry.  O.N. kikja, to pry, Norse
    kika.  Undoubtedly a Scand. loan-word, i>ei as in gleit,
    gley.

KENDLE, KENDILL, KENNLE, vb. to kindle.  Lyndsay, 161, 4970; Gol.
    and Gaw., 1221; Rolland, I, 609.  O.N. kendill, kynda, M.E.
    kindlen.  See Brate.

KILT, vb. to tuck up, O.N. kelta, kjalta, O. Dan. kiltae, the
    lap, Dan., Norse kilte, to tuck up, O. Sw. kilta, sb.  For
    discussion of this word see Skeat.

KIST, KYST, sb. chest, box.  O.N. kista, Norse, Dan. kiste,
    a chest.  O.E. cest would have given kest, or chest.  See
    also Curtis, Sec.392.  The tendency in Sco. is to change i to
    e before st, not e to i.  Cp. restit, gestning.

KITTLING, KITTLEN, sb. kitten.  Burns, 38, 2, 3; Mansie Wauch, 23,
    19; 210, 10.  O.N. ketlingr, diminutive of ketta, she-cat,
    Norse kjetling.  Cp.  Cu. kitlin.  The same diminutive
    formation appears in Dan. kylling, older kykling, Norse
    kjukling, a chicken.