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300 *havr,, oats. Barclay: haavr. Now : aits.

häim,, see ,

häind [häind, häᶇd],, skin, a thin layer or covering on anything, a h. o’, a h. o’ cream upo de milk. A form [hɩnd] is more rare; de o’ a egg. hinna,, a film, membrane.

häind [häind, häᶇd],, to form a coat. in : , covered with a layer; de water is, the water is covered with a coat of mineral matter; de kettle is ower wi’. From ,

hälur,, see ,

håli,, see ,

he [hē],, commonly in : [hēs]: hesitating or evasive manner of expressing oneself; evasive answer; in the “ [həms] and ”; “du needno [-‘not’] ha’e sae mony [‘so many’] and aboot it”. See further the word.

he [hē],, to speak hesitatingly and evasively, to answer in an evasive manner, in the intensive “to [həm] and ”; to and  aboot somet’in’; to sit and. . [ heia,, to linger, loiter, = hía, ; hia and heie, , to delay; prolong; hia and häjä,, to hinder]. is to say “hm!” the and “to hum and (or) haw”.

head-koll (koil),, see ,

hear,, to hear, sometimes used in foreign to  and from Norn ( høyra, heyra); thus: h., to listen to, = høyra (heyra) á; I hear (am hearin’) upo dee. h. ane, to listen to someone, imperatively: h. till him! just listen to him!

heart,, (heart) corresponds in meaning, nave in a spinning-wheel, to hjarta,  (the heart). See ,

heart-mu,, and heart-mud, , see $w$,, and ,

hed [(hēd) hē$3$d, hɛ̄$ə$d],, a grain, particle, (the least) morsel, negatively in the “no [‘not’] a h.”, not a grain; not the least.  [hē$æ$t, hɛ̄$ə$t], no a h.: a name, “the mere name of something”, heiti,, a name, nomination. In (heite, eite) and in (heiti, eiti) the word is used with the word; thus: “eitt eiti”, a very trifling thing, a “cipher", “inkje eite”,  “ikki eitt eiti”, not the very least. Also
 * hate, haid,, a grain, atom.

hedemu [hed··əmū·],, a slight whitish haze (over the land), heat-haze; a h. on the land. In a partly corrupted form: [had··ɩmər·]. hitemoe,, heat-haze; hiti ( hite, hete, ), , heat. See *$æ$,

†hederkandunk, hederkendunk [hed··ərka(n)·do‘ŋk··, hed··ərkən·-, hē··dər-], , 1) a thump; heavy fall; I cam’ doon [‘down’] wi’ a h.; [hed··ərka·do‘ŋk··]. 2) see-sawing; to play h., to see-saw; fairly Barclay has the word in the form “hederkadunkan”. From are reported the forms [ē··bərkan·do‘ŋk··] and [ē··bərkel·do‘ŋk"]. From Orkney the word is reported in the forms [hȯb··ərkan·do‘ŋ··ki] and  [hȯp··ɩkel·do‘ŋ··ki]. — The explanation of the first part (or two first parts?) of the  is uncertain. The last part,, denotes a thump;  and  dunka,  dunke, , to thump (with a muffled resound). Edm. gives “heather-cun-dunk” as a name of a kind of duck, the dun-diver. Not further confirmed. The name certainly denotes one that