_Gloom_; frown, sullen look. Verb and Noun. 187, 266, etc. --"The sad and glooming cross" ("Christ Dying").
_Goodman_, or _gudeman_; one who holds his house or lands from a superior; unlike _laird_, who owns no superior but the king. 16, 18, etc. --_Goodwife_. 34.--See Luke xii. 39.
_Good cheap_; very cheap, gratuitous. But probably _cheap_ is here a Noun, "_chap_," equivalent to "_bargain_." 104, 105, 121, 186, 215, 245, 249. --"_Better cheap_." 216. --See _Cheap_.
_Gone_; ruined, hopeless. 183.
_Gowk_; a simpleton. --"_Gowket_," acting like a simpleton, or put in a foolish position. 151, 232, 256.
_Grace_; to give favour and honour to a person, to adorn; sometimes to get mercy. 12, 29, 133, 237, 275.
_Grammercy_; thanks. 249. --French, "grand-merci."
_Green_; to long after. 85, 160, 213, 226, etc.
_Grip_; a grasp, firm hold, clasp. 22, 24, etc. --"Grips," close quarters, fight. 294.
_Ground_; bottom. 85, 99, 203, 287. Out at the ground. 287. --"_Ground-stone_;" foundation-stone; from the very foundation. 74, 82, 248. --"_Grounds_;" dregs of a cup. 251.
_Guide_; to manage or to make use of. 256, 275.
_Guise_; manner, way (French). 101, 164, 172. --Bunyan, in his History of Badman: "One _guise_ for abroad, another for home."
_Gutters_; pools of dirty water, marks made by the tears that soil the face. 138, 194.
_Hable_; able. Fr., _habile_. 325. --Rollock (Lect. li.), "hability and strength." Trappe on Rom. vi. 22, "Our hability for obedience."
_Halfer_; an equal sharer. 200, 245, 249. --Written "_halver_" also.
_Half-hungered_; left in a hungry state. 26.
_Half-marrow_; a married partner. 183, 270.
_Half-tiner_; half-loser. 182.
_Hall_; the "_hall-house_," or _ha-house_, the mansion-house. So in sermon on John xx. 13, 285. --_Hall-binks_; seats of honour.
_Handfast_; to join hands in betrothing, to affiance. 143, 173, 225.
_Handgrips_; grasping close. 87, 106.
_Handsel_; to use for the first time. 239.
_Handwrite_; written with one's own hand. 270.
_Hard._ --See _Heads_.
_Hardly_; with difficulty. 232.
_Haunt up_; be up frequently in his company. 84. --Fullerton of Earlton, in his "Turtle Dove," speaks of Christ and His saints; "with whom espoused now He _haunts_ in heavens of bliss."
_Hause_; to clasp or close with. 69. --Gawin Douglas uses it for "embrace;" from "hals," the neck or throat.
_Have_; to "_have over_," to let alone, be done with. 87, 106.
_Head of Wit_; a wiseacre, one who affects to have much wisdom. 230, 234. --"_Hard-heads_;" the name of a small coin. 270. --Knox's "History," etc. See note in Letter 270.
_Heap-mete_; heaped up measure, full measure. 249.
_Hear_; to attend, to treat, serve. 195.
_Heartsome_; happy, cheerful. 32, 51, 167. --"Clear, bright, and heartsome morning" (Sermon on Zech. xi. 9). So heartful. 99.
_Heaven-name_; name he bears in heaven. 301.
_Hell-hot_; hot as hell. 357.
_Hereaway_; in this quarter. 50, 286, 336, etc. In this present life, in this world.
_Herry_; cruelly spoil, or rob. 52.
_Hesp_; hank or hasp of yarn. 196.
_Hide_; the skin. 198. --In "Christ Dying," he speaks of the skin or hide of the visible hearers.
_Hing_; for hang. 104, 249.
_Ho_; cessation, to cause to stop. 167.
_Hold-draw_; struggle with. 137.
_Holding_; tenure. 284. So in sermon on Rev. xix.
_Hole_ (sometimes spelt "holl"); to make a hole, to pierce, dig out. 103, 177, 196. --"_Holey_," or "_holie_;" full of holes. 83, 196, 258.
_Homely_; familiar, at home with one. 59, 105, 130, etc.
_Home over_; homewards. 28, 205, 211, etc.
_Homeward_; in its own favour. 163.
_Honesty_; kindly dealing. 69-76.
_Hook_; sickle, reaping-hook. 16, 21, 224, etc. "Mowers with the scythe and hook." Sermon at Kirkmabreck, 1630.
_Hope_; consider. 204, 295.
_Horning_; a legal demand for payment of a debt under threat of imprisonment and being proclaimed rebels. It used to be proclaimed by sound of horn in the market-place. 130.
_Horologue_; a watch. From the Greek. --An old tower at Montrose bore the name of "The Horologue Tower." 238, 289. Rutherford in a sermon before the House of Lords speaks of "Time's horologue, set agoing by God at the Creation."
_House_; "take up his house." 250. Enter on housekeeping.
_Howbeit_; although. --See our Version of the Bible.
_Huge_; vast, very great. 189, 288, etc. --"I am _hugely_ pleased with your letter," says Waterland, in a letter to T. Boston (App. to Life). In Forbes, on Rev. xix., "huge matter of God's praise." In Rutherford's Treatise on Prayer, "heaven is a huge thing," p. 97. 305.
_Hungredly_; on spare diet. 282.
_Hungry of heart_; heart-hungered. 203.
_If_; but that. 342.--_O if._ 206.
_Ill_; in the phrase, "_Ill to please_," difficult to please. 131.
_Ill-flitten_; misplaced. 106. _Q.d._ removed to a wrong place.
_Ill-friended_; without friends. 96. --Zachary Boyd uses this word in "Last Battle," p. 410.
_Ill-learned_; taught evil. 276.
_Ill-ravelled_; sadly entangled. 196.
_Ill-waled_; ill-selected. 326.