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Heriot A right of the lord of a manor to the best jewel, beast, or chattel of a deceased copyhold tenant.
The word is compounded of the Saxon here (army), geatu (grant), because originally it was military
furniture, such as armour, arms, and horses paid to the lord of the fee. (Canute, c. 69.)
Some of the most enjoyable stories I have ever read were those written under pen name "James Herriot"
Alf Wight was a country vet and as James Herriot a best selling author. Two films and the popular television
series 'All Creatures Great And Small' were based on his books. The stories were based on his experiences as a country vet. His first book -'If only they could talk'- was published in 1970. In all he wrote eight books about his life as a vet. In 1979 his illustrated "James Herriot's Yorkshire" was published with photographs by Derry Brabbs. The book with photographs of the Yorkshire Dales, Moors and Coast and commentary by Alf went on to be another best seller
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Hibernia A variety of Ierne (Ireland). Pliny says the Irish mothers feed their babes with swords instead
of spoons.
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High Falutin or Hifaluten. Tall talk. (Dutch, verlooten, high-flown, stilted.)
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High Tea The meal called tea served with cold meats, vegetables, and pastry, in substitution of dinner.
"A well-understood `high tea' should have cold roast beef at the top of the table, a cold
Yorkshire pie at the bottom, a mighty ham in the middle. The side dishes will comprise soused
mackerel, pickled salmon (in due season), sausages and potatoes, etc., etc. Rivers of tea,
coffee, and ale, with dry and buttered toast, sally-lunns, scones, mufflins, and crumpets, jams
and marmalade." - The Daily Telegraph, May 9th, 1893.
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Hinder is to hold one behind; whereas prevent is to go before (Anglo-Saxon hinder, behind, verb
hindrian).
Beautiful.I wish I'd said that.
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Histrionic is from the Etruscan word hister (a dancer), histriones (ballet-dancers). Hence, histrio in
Latin means a stage-player, and our word histrionic, pertaining to the drama. History is quite another
word, being the Greek historia, histor, a judge, allied to histamai, to know.
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Hob and Nob together. To drink as cronies, to clink glasses, to drink tête-à-têle. In the old English
houses there was a hob at each corner of the hearth for heating the beer, or holding what one wished to
keep hot. This was from the verb habban (to hold). The little round table set at the elbow was called a
nob; hence to hob-nob was to drink snugly and cosily in the chimney-corner, with the beer hobbed, and a
little nobtable set in the snuggery. (See Hob Nob.)
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Hobby-horse A child's plaything, so called from the hobby-horse of the ancient morris-dance; a light
frame of wicker-work, appropriately draped, in which someone was placed, who performed ridiculous
gambols.
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Hogmanay', Hogmena' or Hagmen'a. Holy month.
New Year's Eve is called hogmanay'-night or hogg-night, and it is still the custom in parts of Scotland
for persons to go from door to door on that night asking in rude rhymes for cakes or money. (See Hog.)
In Galloway the chief features are "taking the cream off the water," wonderful luck being attached to a
draught thereof; and "the first foot," or giving something to drink to the first person who enters the house.
A grand bonfire and a procession, in which all persons are masked and in bizarre costume.
King Haco, of Norway, fixed the feast of Yole on Christmas Day, the eve of which used to be called
hogg-night, which in the old style is New Year's Eve.
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Homoeopathy (5 syl.). The plan of curing a disease by very minute doses of a medicine which would in
healthy persons produce the very same disease. The principle of vaccination is a sort of homoeopathy,
only it is producing in a healthy person a mitigated form of the disease guarded against. You impart a mild
form of small-pox to prevent the patient from taking the virulent disease. (Greek, homoios pathos, like
disease.)
I never heard vaccination called a form of homeopathy!
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