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" Every Jack must have his Gill." 1 ' From the same equi- 

 vocation have arisen other such names as " Lizzie, up the 

 hedge !" etc. See GILL. Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. 



HAZEL, A.S. hcesl or hcesel, and, allowing for dialect, the 

 same word in all Germanic languages, the instrumental 

 form of A.S. hces, a behest, an order, from A.S. hatan, 

 O.H.G. haizan, G. heissen, give orders, a hazel stick having 

 been used to enforce orders among slaves and cattle, and 

 been the baton of the master. J. Grimm (Gesch. d. Deuts. 

 Spr. p. 1016,) observes, " Der hirt zeigt uns das einfache 

 vorbild des fursten, des TTO^T/Z/ \awv, und sein haselstab 

 erscheint wieder im zepter der konige : ' hafa i hendi 

 heslikylfo' ['hold in hand a hazel staff'];" an expression 

 that occurs in Ssemund's Edda in the second lay of the 

 Helgaquida, str. 20. The verb hcelsian, foretell, seems to 

 be derived from the use of the hazel rod for purposes of 

 divination. Corylus Avellana, L. 



HAZEL-WOKT, G. hasel-rourz, from the similarity of its 

 calyx to the involucre of a nut, and not, as the books tell 

 us, from its growing under hazel bushes. Frisch considers 

 it to be corrupted from L. asarum. A. europseum, L. 



HEADACHE, or HEAD-WARKE, from the effect of its 

 odour, the red field-poppy, Papaver Rhceas, L. 



HEART'S-EASE, a term meaning ' a cordial,' as in Sir W. 

 Scott's Antiquary, ch. xi : " buy a dram to be eilding and 

 claise, and a supper and hearts-ease into the bargain," 

 given to certain plants supposed to be cardiac ; at pre- 

 sent to the pansy only, but by Lyte, Bulleyn, and W. 

 Turner to the Wallflower equally. The most probable ex- 

 planation of the name is this. There was a medicine 

 " good," as Cotgrave tells us, " for the passions of the 

 heart" and called gariojile, from the cloves in it, L. caryo- 

 philla. The wall-flower also took its name from the clove, 

 and was called giro/flee, from the same Latin word. See 

 GILLIFLOWER. The cardiac qualities of the medicine were 



