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288 ride on the hill, beating the bounds, in the “to ride de h.”, of neighbouring land-owners in former times: to ride on horseback over the hill-pastures to fix the boundary-marks. This ride took place every year (in autumn at the close of the corn-harvest), and every year one of the boys from the neighbourhood or village was taken along in turn; and at each stone, set up as a mark, the boy was whipped, in order the better to remember the boundary, and, in case of boundary controversies, be able to appear as a witness. This custom is now quite obsolete. — *hag(a)-reið; ríða hag(a)-reið. hagi,, a piece of ground laid out for pasture, hagi,, hill-pasture; reið, , a ride.

hagri$2$, hageri [hag··əri·, hā··gəri·], , a long list of something; a flow of words; a lang h., a h. o’ words; — disparaging statement about a person; “sicc [‘such’] a h. shø [‘she’]’s gi’en [‘given’] o’ her”. Also historical memoirs or narratives; “to geng t’rough a h. o’ tings”; “de h. o’ it is no [‘not’] been keepet [‘kept’]”; in this sense also in : “if dey [‘they’] wis [‘was’ for ‘were’, here = ‘had’] keepet de auld [‘old’] —”. . — From is reported a form , [hɔg$w$ri, hɔg··əri·, hȯg··əri·] in sense of: a) use; application; advantage; b) conclusion, bad use, bad conclusion, hit [‘it’] will geng [‘go’] till (in) a ill [‘bad’] or puir [‘poor’] — or ironically: till a guid or braw h., in a guid or braw h. From [hog··əri·] is also reported in sense of marriage, match, jocularly of a poor match: he’s made a h. — : *hag-reið, , arrangement; putting to rights, ; hagreiða,, to put into shape; to treat in a certain manner. See $ə$,, condition; order; state of things; management,, and ,, to put in order. — , however, in all essentials assimilates to the uncompounded , [ hagr], and might also be regarded as an extended form of that word through of :
 * hagreið.

hagri$2$,, see $3$,

†hai [hai, häi] and †haid [haid, häid],, very angry, embittered; he is h. upo me. (haid). (hai). (?) hei,, hot-tempered, eager (R.), and hea,, a fit, of wildness, madness (R.). Phonetically “hai” is not directly hei; “haid” is most hite, hyte,, raging.

hain,, properly he? see further under ,

†haipernor [hai·pərnō$1$r·, häi·pər-], , substitute for a person one does not wish to mention, in speaking of him: he you know,. Obscure. - may represent * and be hann,, he; see further (under *), and, and the corresponding use of these words.

haivers [haivərs, häivərs], , properly, but used in the singular: (clumsy, awkward) manner, (awkward) handling; to ha’e a puir [‘poor’] h., to manage awkwardly. Edm. has a form “hyver” in the “ill-hyver”, awkward behaviour; “y” expresses here “ai” or “äi”; “ill-hyvered” (Edm.) = [ɩl·hai·vərd, -häi·vərd], — implies  a double ending: an older -er with an added -s. häva, häfva, , in the “åthäfvor”, , behaviour, manners, and fåhäva, inability, as well as häfder, , = åthäfvor. See further , — Besides , the forms [hēvər] and