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340 much dried up or burnt, of bread. hyrpa, hyrpa, hörpa,, to pinch, draw together.

horr, and, see.

†horra [hɔra]-goose,, barnacle-goose. Also horie-goose.

horri [hȯrri],, a shout by which swine are chased away. See and ,

horro [hȯr·rō··, hɔ̇r·rō··],, great disturbance, noise and confusion, a h. and a “balloot”. In a somewhat different sense is handed down the form [hur·rō·, hor·rō·]: ardour; high spirits; like , ardent and animated (? Burgess, Sketches, 2nd edit. p. 113. — Doubtless “*hurru” from *hurra, speed (hurra,, to hum; whirl; hurra,, to hum; mutter).
 * hurra,, whirling and rushing

horse-høv [hå‘rs·hø̄v],, marsh-marigold (plant). horse’s hoof ( hófr,, a hoof). hófblaðka,, as the name of the same plant. The common name for the plant is otherwise ;

horsgok, -guk [hă‘rs··gȯk· (-gɔk·), -gok·, -guk·],, the snipe, scolopax gallinago. hå‘rs··gok·, -guk·: Elsewhere more : “hå‘rs··gȯk· (-gɔk·)” and “horse- [gȯuk, gɔuk]”; the latter form to gowk,, cuckoo. Also  The name is due to the bird’s subdued cry. In , is also found used of another bird, — hrossagaukr,  rossegauk and horsegauk, horsagök, , horsegøg, the snipe.
 * the green sand-piper (Jam.).

horsk [hȯ‘rᶊk],, a shout by which swine are chased away. See ,

horus, horrus [horus·, horuᶊ·, hȯr·ruᶊ··], , 1) bustle; noise; uncontrolled uncon- trolled speed; to be in a h.; der’r [‘there is’] a h. upo dee; he cam’ wi’ a h., he came rushing and stumbling. In various places, in, the phrase “to be in a h.” is mostly said of a crowd as distinct from a single individual. hȯr·ruᶊ··: hū·rūs··]; to had a , to rush along, to make a noise.  2) a noisy, rushing crowd, a h. o’ folk. [horuᶊ·]. , [horuᶊ·]. — Assimilates entirely in both senses to herraas,, which  is the same word (the latter part is rás, , run, speed, also a crowd). The first part of the word is influenced by *hurr, , , to humming, whirring, - seems to presuppose a root-form part of can most reasonably be explained as having arisen by levelling of sound.
 * horus·: ; elsewhere more
 * horuᶊ·. Also [hurūs·,
 * rǫ́s = rás. “u” of the first

horus [horus·, horuᶊ·] and hurus [hurūs·],, to urge one on, by noisy shouting; he (was ) him to come. See ,

horøvi [hō·rø̄·vi, hō·røv·i],, a species of grey shark, smooth dogfish, mustelus, in shape like “de ”, but larger, and having a tail of a different form. [hō·røb·i]. The name is due to the peculiar form of its tail. For the first part of the see, ; the second part is a of  rófa,  rova, , tail. With  $n$, , used, inter alia, of the tail of a shark.

hosamilla,, see ,

hosopall, -pell and -pann, , see, ,

hosek [hosək, hɔsək],, an overhand knot made on a damaged fishing-line round the broken parts