Chapter Harness Cask to Harvest Goose of H by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Hart of Grease (A). A hunter's phrase for a fat venison; a stag full of the pasture, called by Jaques "a fat and greasy citizen." (As You Like It, i. 1.) (See Heart Of Grace.)

"It is a hart of grease, too, in full season, with three inches of fat on the brisket." - Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap. xvii.

Harts There are four harts in the tree Yggdrasil, an eagle and a squirrel; and a serpent gnaws its root.

Hartnet The daughter of Rukenaw (the ape's wife) in the tale of Reynard the Fox. The word in old German means hard or strong strife.

Harum Scarum A hare-brained person who scares quiet folk. Some derive it from the French clameur de Haro (hue and cry), as if the madcap was one against whom the hue-and-cry is raised; but probably it is simply a jingle word having allusion to the "madness of a March hare, " and the "scaring" of honest folks from their proprieties.

"Who's there? I s'pose young harum-scarum."
Cambridge Facetiæ: Collegian and Porter

Haruspex (pl. haruspices). Persons who interpreted the will of the gods by inspecting the entrails of animals offered in sacrifice (old Latin, haruga, a victim; specio, I inspect). Cato said, "I wonder how one haruspex can keep from laughing when he sees another."

Harvard College in the United States, endowed by the Rev. John Harvard in 1639. Founded 1636.

Harvest Goose A corruption of Arvyst Gos (a stubble goose). (See Wayz-Goose.)

"A young wife and an arvyst gos,
Moche gagil [clatter] with both."
Reliquiæ Antiquæ ii.113