~Hamp~, _s._ The act of stuttering, ibid.
_To_ HAMPER, _v. a._ To confine by giving little room, S.
_Douglas._
Sw. _hamp-as_, rei difficili intricatus laborare.
_To_ HAMPHIS, _v. a._ To surround, S. B.
_Ross._
_To_ HAM-SCHAKEL, HABSHAIKEL, HOBSHAKLE, _v. a._ To fasten the head of a horse or cow to one of its fore-legs.
_Gl. Sibb._
HAMSCHOCH, _s._ A sprain or contusion in the leg, Fife.
A. S. _ham_, the hip, and _shach_, _v._ to distort.
_To_ HAMSH, _v. n._ To eat voraciously with noise, Ang.
V. ~Hansh~.
HAMSTRAM, _s._ Difficulty, S. B.
_Ross._
Teut. _ham_, poples, _stremm-en_, cohibere.
HAN, _pret._ Have.
_Sir Tristrem._
HANCLETH, _s._ Ancle.
_Lyndsay._
A. S. _ancleow_, id.
HAND. _By hand_, _adv._ Over, past, S.
_To put by hand_, to put aside, S.
_Rutherford._
_Weill at hand_, Active.
_Barbour._
_To put hand in_, To put to death.
_G.o.dscroft._
_Fra hand_, _adv._ Forthwith.
_Lyndsay._
_Out of hand_, id. S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
_Spede hand_, Make haste, S.
_Douglas._
~Handcuffs~, _s. pl._ Manacles, S. q. _sleeves_ of iron.
_To_ ~Handcuff~, _v. a._ To manacle, S.
_To_ ~Hand-fast~, _v. a._
1. To betrothe by joining hands, in order to cohabitation before marriage.
_Pitscottie._
2. To contract in order to marriage.
_Ferguson._
A. S. _hand-faest-en_, fidem dare.
~Hand-fasting~, ~Hand-fastnyng~, _s._ Marriage with the inc.u.mbrance of some canonical impediment, not yet bought off.
Su. G. _handfaestning_, id.
_Wyntown._
~Hand-hauand~, _part. pr._ Having in possession, applied to stolen goods.