- 12.032 and the little high-walled bay had kept out his fiercest flames.
A perfectly proper OED combined word.
“high, adj. and n.2.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86850. Accessed 14 September 2017.
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Hiding-place
- 05.084 in his hiding-place he kept a few wretched oddments,
This has a hyphen just so in OED
“hiding-place, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86756. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hide-and-seek
- 13.010 Stop playing hide-and-seek!
A game well known and attested by the 1600s
“hide-and-seek, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86727. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hi!
- 08.064 Hi! hobbit, confusticate you,
Hew
- 09.005 in a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone
Here
Of course “here” is common, but the trollish dialect makes it uncommon. I would love to have a Word Fan who is an expert in such things comment on how the trollish dialect compares to a Cockney one.
- 02.050 ‘Ere, ‘oo are you?” it squeaked,
Herb
- 08.036 and herbs with pale leaves
These Mirkwood plants are not wholesome enough to eat.
Hem
- 17.059 hemmed all about
Helter-skelter
- 06.012 and helter-skelter down here.
A word of which OED says:
Etymology: A jingling expression vaguely imitating the hurried clatter of feet rapidly and irregularly moved, or of many running feet.
Therefore this word will be added to the onomatopoeia tag!
“helter-skelter, adv., adj., n., and v.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/85762. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Helm
“Helm” is interchangeable with “helmet”, but listed by OED as the archaic and poetic form.
- 06.067 and helmets,
- 12.014 could dimly be seen coats of mail, helms and axes, swords and spears hanging;
- 13.037 A light helm of figured leather,
- 13.042 and their bright helms with their tattered hoods,
- 17.066 a stone hurtling from above smote heavily on his helm,
- 18.011 But I have a helm
“helm, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.
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