Glossary. 
Greedie gainfull, 2/13, aaj. greedy for 
gain. 
Greefe, 89/8, s. trouble, worry. 
Gregorie, 46/2. St. Gregory’s Day, 
12th March. 
Grinstone, 17/8, s. grindstone. 
Gromel, 45/9, s. the plant Gromwell. 
Lithospermum arvense, Linn. 
Grosest, 19/18, adj. heaviest, thickest, 
Fr. 270s. 
Grosse, 18/18, adj. coarse. 
Grossum caput, 95/1, a blockhead, 
stupid. 
Grotes, 33/46, s. f/. money (groats). 
L. Ger. grot = a large piece (of 
money), so called because before 
this coin was issued by Edward 
ILI., the English had no larger silver 
coin than the penny. 
Gruch, 57/19 ; Grutch, 86/2, wv. grudge. 
O. Fr. grouchier, to grumble. 
Grutching, 10/8, s. grumbling. 
Guise, 89/12, *Guyse, 5, s. habit, custom. 
Gunstone, 10/19, s. a ball of stone, used 
in heavy artillery before the intro- 
duction of iron shot.—Nares’ Gloss. 
Gutted, 46/4, #/. taken off from the old 
roots. 
*Gutting, 27, v. cutting up, making 
ruts in. 
Ble 
Haberden, 23/12, s. ‘‘ that kind of cod 
which is usually salted.”—Nares. 
? Aberdeen haddocks. 
Hacking, 53/15, v. hewing down, cut- 
ting of trees. 
Had I wist, 77/8, lit. ‘had I known :” 
foole had I wist=foolish and use- 
less regrets. 
*Haft, 60, uv. zamzp. ‘* Act like a miser, 
be a niggard. The sentence then 
reads ‘ Be not niggardly towards 
God of the goods He sends you.’ 
Haft, to grasp (an extension of the 
verb Zo have), and hence to save, 
be a niggard, is preserved in ha/fter, 
a miser, saver; which see in my 
Notes to P. Plowman, 1. 197, p. 
117. See nine examples of this 
word in Skelton, ed. Dyce, ii. 108.” 
—Note by Rev. W. W. Skeat. 
The word, however, seems to bear 
even a _ stronger meaning, for 
Cooper, in his ‘‘ Thesaurus,” 1584, 
has ‘‘ Cauzlla, a mocke, a scoffe, 
331 
an haftyng question, a cauill.” The 
words ‘‘haft not to godward ” thus 
may mean ‘‘do not grumble at, 
find fault with, or question the 
justice of what God sends you.” 
Haie, 63/24, s. hay. A.S. haga. 
Haier, 57/51, s. cloth made of goats’ hair. 
Haile, 15/34, aaj. sound, strong. A.S. 
hel. 
Hailoft, 89/6, s. hay-lofts. 
Haithorne, 34/28, s. hawthorn. A.S. 
hagaporn from haga=hedge, haw. 
Ger. hagedorn. 
Hallomas, 23/1, s. the Feast of All 
Saints. Hallowmas, z.e. All Saints’ 
Day, Nov. 1, was, in Tusser’s time, 
ten days nearer the winter solstice 
than now. 
Hallontide, 21/1. 
November. 
Handsome, 48/18, adj. useful, ready, 
handy. A.S. hand, hond, the hand. 
Prompt. Parv. gives ‘*handsum, 
manualis.” 
Handsomly, 21/24, adv. neatly, trimly. 
Hardhead, 71/4, adj. hardy, brave. 
Hardlie, 10/50, adv. with difficulty. 
Harlots, 74/4, s. p/. tramps, vagrants, 
or disreputable characters of either 
sex. ‘*An harlott, dalator, rusti- 
cus.” —Cathol. Anglicum. 
Harmes, 16/15, s. in harm’s way, in 
danger. 
Harolds Booke, 113/11, s. £7.the Books 
of the College of Heralds. 
Hart, 19/13, s. strength, fertility. 
Harted, 48/17, ff. provided with a 
good heart, or, as we should now 
say, a good bottom ; strengthened. 
*Harthe, 65, s. hearth. 
Hartilie, 10/55, aa7. hearty. 
Hartstong, 45/10, s. the Heartstongue, 
Ceterach officinarum, so called from 
the shape of the frond. 
Hastings, 18/32, s. f/. an early variety 
of peas, ‘*soone ripe, soone rotten.” 
—D. Rogers’ Naaman. 
Hauke, 56/44, s. hawking, falconry. 
Haunt, 67/14, v. follow, pursue, be 
accustomed. O. Fr. hanter, to 
pursue. 
Haunting, 16/31, adj. frequenting, in 
the habit of coming. 
Hauocke, 77/3, s. havoc, waste. 
Hawe, 36/13, s the berries of the haw- 
thorn, hips. 
Hawme, 48/14, _ 5S. 
All Saints’ Day, Ist 
haulm, straw. 
