224 GLOSSARY. 



d^jk mud une fois, D'Arcussia fait deriver ce nom du mot hdbreu 

 agar, signifiant Stranger. II semble qu'il doit plutot signifier ^gar^y 

 sauvage, k moins qu'attendu I'explication qu'en donne ici notre 

 auteur on ne le fasse venir de haya, haie.'' Selincourt, in his " Parfait 

 Chasseur," 1683, gives some advice as to the best kinds of hawks to 

 keep according to the sort of country they are to be flown in, and 

 refers to the " fauconniers flamands qui en apportent tous les ans 

 tant de niais que de hagars^ 



Halsband, s., literally, neck-band ; a contrivance ot soft twisted silk 

 placed like a collar round the hawk's neck and the end held in the 

 hand; used by Indian falconers, when flying the Sparrow-hawk 

 to steady the bird when cast oft. 



Havock, to cry, from A.S. hafoc, a hawk. See Hoo-HA-ha. 



Hey and Heye, adj.^ in old authors, sc. high, i.e., in good condition. 



Hood, s., the leathern cap (Fr. chaperon, Dutch huif, and German 

 hatibe) used for blindfolding hawks to tame them. " I never in the 

 house let her sit hooded at all, and when shee is a flying hawke, 

 never unhooded in the field." — Bert, " Treatise," 161 9, p. 23. Before 

 the Crusades the hood was unknown to European falconers ; it was 

 introduced by the German Emperor, Frederick II., who adopted the 

 use of it from the Syrian Arabs. The hood proper has a plume of 

 feathers on top ; the rufter-hood is without this. See Rufter-hood 

 and Seeling. 



Hood off, v., to pull oft" the hood and slip a hawk at the quarry. 



Hood-shy, said of a hawk thai has been spoilt by clumsy hooding. 



Hoo-HA-HA. The modern version ot an old cry raised by falconers 

 when the quarry is sighted and the hawk is encouraged to pursue. 

 Drayton (No. 23) gives it in a description of hawking by the river, 

 1622 {vide anted., p. 19). Perhaps the expression, to cry havock, meant 

 originally to give the hawking cry before slipping at the quarry, hafoc 

 being the A.S. word for hawk. Claude Gauchet, in his "Plaisir des 

 Champs," 1 583, writes : " puis au partir de I'arbre hoya, hoya, se crie ; 

 and Dangeau, in his "Etats de la France," has : "Toutes fois qu'elle 

 part (la Pie) on crie, houya, houya /" Baron de Noirmont (No. 206), 

 describing the French method of duck-hawking (vol. iii. p. 184), 

 says : " on mettait les oiseaux, c'est k dire les faucons, d. mont, puis 

 on faisait partir les canards ; au moment ou ils prenaient leur vol, on 

 criait ha, ha ! ou bien encore hou, hou ! k la mode flamande." The 

 Arab falconers shout " ha-hou /'^ which, according to General 

 Daumas (No. 199), signifies with them " There it is !" The Japanese 

 falconers, when h.nl oaing to a hawk, cry, ^'■0-oti, 0-ou.f" See the 



