gin-house an outbuilding sheltering the cotton gin, a machine for separating cotton fibers from the seeds.
Hagar a woman in the Old Testament, concubine of Abraham and slave of Abraham's wife Sarah; the mother of Ishmael. Hagar's slavery and other specific mentions of slavery in the Bible were sometimes cited as evidence that God approved of the institution.
hartshorn ammonium carbonate, used in smelling salts, so called because formerly made from deer antlers.
"He that dwelleth in love . . . ." 1 John 4:16: "So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him."
Huguenot any French Protestant of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.
"I am the root and offspring of David, and the bright and morning star" Revelation 22:16: "'I Jesus have sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.'"
inkhorn a small container, formerly used to hold ink.
inly i.e., inwardly, within one's mind or spirit.
"In the midst of life we are in death" line from the Burial of the Dead in the Book of Common Prayer.
"instrument of torture" i.e., the Cross.
"Into thy hands I commend my spirit!" Jesus' dying words on the cross; see Luke 23: 46: "Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, 'Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!' And having said this he breathed his last."
"it biteth like a serpent . . . ." Proverbs 23:31, 32: "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."
