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Hare is also used both as a surname and in place-names {e.g., Hare- 

 wood, Yorkshire), and appears in many compounds and names of 

 flowers, as hare-lipped, hare's-ear, hare's-foot, hare's-tail, harebell, and 

 others. To "make a hare of a man" is a well-known Irish expression 

 signifying to rout him completely, especially in argument, as in a 

 well-known popular song — " Father O'Flynn would make hares of them 

 all." 



By sportsmen " hare " is often used in the feminine gender. 



The sex-names "jack" and "jill," or "gill," are survivals of familiar 

 but somewhat depreciative Middle English terms for " boy " and "girl" ; 

 compare the old nursery rhyme beginning "Jack and Jill went up the 

 hill." "Jill" or "gill" is from Middle English "jille," "gille," "jylle," 

 or "gylle," abbreviated from " Gillian " = " Julian," from "Juliana," from 

 Latin "Julia," feminine of "Julius"; compare "gillet" or " jillet " = a 

 giddy young woman, a jilt {Dial. Diet.). 



" Leveret," the common word for a young hare, comes, as shown 

 below, from the French. 



Local names 1 (non-Celtic): — Bandy, from the curvature of the hind 

 legs, of East Anglia, including Norfolk ; baud or bawd, a shortened 

 form of bawdrons = " a cat," of Scotland, Derby, and Nottingham — see 

 also under Wild Cat, — explains an otherwise pointless passage in Romeo 

 and Juliet, II., iv. — 



" Meractio. A bawd, a bawd, a bawd, so ho ! 

 Romeo. What hast thou found ? 

 Mercutio. No hare, sir ; " 



as well as the following from Poems in Buchan Dialeet (1783, 23), 

 quoted by Jamieson — 



" I saw (and shame it was to see) 

 You rin awa' like bawds " ; 



bautie, bawtic, bawty, of Scotland and Cumberland, is also applied to 

 dogs; bettie, of Kirkcudbright (Service, Zoologist, 1878,427); bun, see. 

 Rabbit; cuttie = " short "-tailed, of Scotland, a name usually applied to 

 the wren ; donie = " the little dun-coloured " animal, given by Jamieson 

 as of the Angus dialect, but not known to Wright's correspondents 

 {Dial. Diet.) ; fennel, a female hare when giving suck; fuddle, of Banff 

 and Aberdeen, from fid, the tail of a hare or rabbit, as in Burns's 

 Tarn Samson's Elegy, 1787, vii. — 



" Ye maukins, cock your fud fu' braw, 

 Withouten dread, 

 Your mortal fae is now awa'" ; 



great hare, a three-year-old ; jack-1'abbit, see Rabbit ; katie, of Scotland, 

 Cumberland, and Shropshire ; laverock or lavrock, of Northumberland 

 and the North of Ireland, evidently a mistake for leveret, a young hare, 



1 Without reference to species. 



