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GLOSS A RIAL INDEX. 



H. 



Ha-ha, a sunk fence, p. 474. 



Hacking and picking. See Picking. 



Hainault mowing, explained, s. 3172. p. 515. 



Hanimel, a small shed, with a yard for feeding 

 one, or at most two animals, p. 469. 



Hands of tobacco, leaves tied up by their footstalks, 

 so that the leaves spread out like the hand, s. 

 3945. p. 641. 



Hangs, slopes, s. 3945. p. 641. 



Hurled, p. 497- See Lipped. 



Hash, explained, s. 2716. p. 419. 



Hatches, flood-gates, p. 726. 



Hatted kitt, explained, s. 7105. p 1048. 



Hattocks, shocks, s. 3173. p. 51.5. 



Haulm, the base of the stalks or stems of all crops, 

 after the seeds are reaped or gathered. The 

 haulm of paas is in some places called pea ryse. 



Head and heel of gates, explained, p. 500. 



Heading down /r^f5, lopping or cutting off the heads 

 of trees, p. 651. 



Heading sheaves, the hood sheaf or sheaves of 

 shocks of corn, p. 515. 



Headmain, explained, s. 4411. p. 726. 



Heckles, iron combs, p. 923. 



Heckling flax, combing, p. 916. 



Helmets, a variety of pigeon, p. 1095. 



Hepatic affections, affections of the liver, p. 1037. 



Herbage plants, forage plants, such as clover and 

 other plants cultivated chiefly for the herb, to be 

 used either green or made into hay. 



Hide-bound, a disease in horses and cattle when the 

 skin cleaves to the sides, s. 6425. p. 977. 



Hink, explained s. 5171. p. 832. 



Hinny, explained, s. 6768. p. 1013. 



Hlrsel, a Scotch term of the same meaning as the 

 English term " herd," s. 6793. p. 1017. 



Hoars, thick mists, p. 772. 



Holmes, small islands, but larger than aits. 



Hood-sheaf, a sheaf placed on the summit of other 

 sheaves for a covering, p. 516. 



Hook bones, bones in the hind quarter of cattle, s. 

 6799. p. 1018. 



Horny frog of the horse, the prominence in the 

 hollow of a horse's foot, p. 976. 



Horsemen, a variety of pigeon, p. 1095. 



Horses, pieces of wood used in barking trees, 

 p. 659. 



Hot fur, explained, s. 5906. p. 824. 



Hot yellows, explained, s. 72^36. p. 1065. 



Hove, explained, s. 7254. p. 1065. 



Huckaback, a kind of cloth, s. 5933. p.917. 



Humerus, the arm bone, p. 985. 



Hummelling machine, explained, p. 440. 



Hunger rot, exi)lained, s. 7261. p. 1066. 



Hungry soil, barren soil needing much manure, 

 p. 773. 



Husbandman, one who farms generally ; that is, 

 who both produces corn and cattle, and attends to 

 the dairy, the poultry, the woodlands, and the or- 

 chard. A farmer may confine himself to grazing, 

 or to breeding or haymaking, or milking or raising 

 green crops for the'market, &c., but in none of 

 these cases can he with propriety be called a hus- 

 bandman. This term husbandman, therefore, is 

 not exactly synonymous with farmer. 



Husbandry, the culture of arable grass and wood- 

 lands, the management of live stock, the dairy, 

 poultry, &c., and, in general, what constitutes the 

 business of the head of a family living by agri- 

 cultural industry in the country. 



Hybrid, bastard or spurious, p. 1013. 



Hydatid, the Tae^nia gl6bulus, an insect occurring 

 in the skull of the sheep, p. 1049. 



Hydropic rot, explained, s. 7261. p. 1065. 



Hygrometer, an instrument for ascertaining the de- 

 gree of moisture in the atmosphere, p. 773. 



Imago, the perfect state of insects, p. 1112. 



Impinge, to strike against, s. 4361. p. 719. 



In and in system of breeding, p. 301. 



Incision of objects on roads, the marks, traces, 



tracks, or ruts made, s. 3571. p. 575. 

 Increments, proportional rates of increase, s. 3552. 



p. 572. 

 Indigence, peculiar to, springing out of the nature 



of, p. 1012. 

 Induration, hardening, p. 717. 

 Ir^field, an obsolete Scottish term for enclosed lands 



near the farmstead, as opposed to such as are at 



a distance from it, and uninclosed, s. 802. p. 130. 

 Ings. See S.iltings. 



Iris, the coloured circle in the eyes of animals, s. 

 6371. p. 970. 



Isometrical perspective, explained, p. 472. 



Isosceles triangle, a triangle which has only two of 

 its sides equal, p. 503. 



Itinerating libraries, libraries, the books of which 

 are carried from one place of deposit to another, 

 and thence issued, p. 756. 



Jacobines, a variety of pigeon, p. 1095. 



Jumper, a tool used by masons for boring holes in 

 land stones to be reft by gunpowder, p. /43. 



Jumping pole, a long stiff pole, by which persons in 

 the fens are enabled to jump across ditches or 

 drains twenty feet wide, by planting the pole 

 towards the middle of the drain, and springing 

 from bank to bank : a small piece of board, called 

 a quant, is fastened to the bottom of the pole to 

 prevent its sinking into the mud. See duant. 



K. 



Kelp, the ashes of any description of Fhc\ or other 

 seaweed, p. 1205. 



Knees for ship-building, crooked pieces of timber, 

 having two branches or arms, and generally used 

 to connect the beams of a ship with her sides, 

 s. 3034. p. 491. 



Knuckering, explained, s. 6387. p. 972. 



Kyloes, the name given to the cattle of the He- 

 brides, s. 6796. p. 1018. 



Lachrymal gland, the gland which gecretes or sup- 

 plies the lachrymce or tears, p. 970. 



Lacteals, the absorbents of the mesentery, which 

 originate in the small intestines, and convey 

 the chyle from thence to the thoracic duct, p. 

 968, See Crabb's Tech. Diet. 



Lactotneter, explained, s. 7008. p. 1037. 



Lampas, a swelling of the wrinkles or ribs in the 

 roof of the horse's mouth j analogous to the gum- 

 boils in man, p. 980. 



Land, a term employed in Cambridgeshire and 

 other counties, to designate what more generally 

 is termed a ridge ; that is, one of those compart- 

 ments which lie between gutter and gutter in 

 arable fields. The ridge, in Cambridgeshire, is 

 the highest part or central line of the lands, just 

 as the ridge of a house is the highest part of its 

 roof. In Scotland, a ridge includes the whole of 

 the surface between gutter and gutter. Land.ap- 

 pears the fitter term. 



Land, ground, earthy surface in opposition to wa- 

 ter or rocks. The term ground is generally ap- 

 plied to a comparatively limited extent of surface, 

 as garden grounds, hop grounds, &c. in opposition 

 to arable lands, wood lands, &c. 



Land-fast stones, stones fixed or imbedded in the 

 soil, p. 483. 



Land-reeve, explained, s. 4638. p. 760. 



Larvce, the grubs, maggots, or caterpillars of insects, 

 803. 



Laryngeal sonorous sacs, hollows in the windpipe 

 which modulate the voice of animals, s. 6764. 

 p. 1013. 



Larynx, the windpipe or trachea, p. 972. 



Lateral shoots, shoots emitted on the sides of 

 branches ; laterally ; quite distinct from latter 

 shoots, with which they are occasionally con- 



. founded, p. 478. 



Laying in hedge-planting, laying down the sets 

 or plants horizontally on the bed prepared for 

 them, s. 3944. p. 640. 



Laying an old hedge, explained, s. 3026. p. 490. 



Leaping ill, explained, s. 7253. p. 1065. 



Leasehold, property held on lease, p. 552. 



Leggct, explained, s. 3193. p. 518. 



Legu?ninous crops, crops of the various kinds of 

 pulse, as peas, beans, tares, saintfoin, lucern, 

 clover, &c., p. 800. 



Levelling, explained, p. 5S5. 



Leverage, the act of using levers, or the power ac- 

 quired by the use of them, p. 575. 



Light-lyered, the dew-lap of a light colour, s. 6798. 

 p. 1018. 



Ligneous plants, woody plants, as trees or shrubs, 

 p. 476. 



Lipped and harlcd, a wall built of stoiies without 

 mortar, but which has the joints afterwards filled 

 with mortar, and the whole wall plastered over 

 with what is called rough-cast, or harling in Scot- 

 land. The mixture used for harling is lime, sand, 

 and small stones about the size of peas. Dashing 

 in England is the forcible casting of imall stones 



