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 50 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Harrow gooie, sb, a ' large ' bird mentioned by Harris, Hist. Co. Doum (1744). Hash, sb, a lazy, untidy person. Hasky, (1) adj, husky; hoarse. (2) adj. harsh : applied to flax, fibre, &c Haste. ' The more Iiaste the worse speed, as the tailor said to the long thread/ saying. Hatterel, (1) ' He's all in a haiterel* i. e. his body is all over sores. (2) a great many ; a flock. ' A hatterd o' veans.' Hand, V. to hold. Hand awa', go away. Haoghle, v. to walk badly ; to hobble. Have no mind, to forget. ' I had no mind of it ' — I forgot it. ' Have you mind of that, Sam ? ' Hawthery, Hnthery, adj. untidy ; tossed. Hay-bird, sb. the willow wren, so called from its using hay largely in building its nest. Hazelly, adj. ' Light hazelly land,' i. e. light, poor soiL Hazerded, adj. half dried, as linen, &c., spread on grass. 'Them clothes are not dry at all ; they're only hazerded* Head, ( 1 ) «&. used for mouth. * No t a word out of your liead* * Every tooth in my head was aching.' * The doctor said he was never to have the milk away from his head,^ This of a person who required con- stant nourishment. (2) * He was like to ate the head off me,' i. e. he was very angry with me. (3) ' Hould up your head, there's money bid for you : ' said as encouragement to a bashfid person. (4^ * Over the head of,' on accoimt of. * I got dismissed over the heaa of a letter the master got.' (5) ' To stand over the hecuL of,' to warrant the quaUty or quantity of anything. Head beetler, the foreman beetler in a beetling mill, and hence any foreman or head man over workpeople. Head fall. " An infant at its birth is generally forced by the mid- wife to swallow spirits, and is immediately afterwards suspended by the upper jaw with her fore-flnger ; this last operation is performed for the purpose of preventing a disease called head^/all. Many children die when one or two days old of the triemus nascentium, or 'jaw-fall,' a spasmodic disease peculiar to tropical climates; here, however, it is probably a dislocation caused by the above-mentioned barbarous practice." — Masok's Parochial Survey, Parish of Guldaff, Co. of Donegal, 1816.