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Rh W.R. in sense of twilight; i’ de = i’ de. — The word is a of  húm, , gloom; dark air; twilight. See $2$, ,, and besides hymskjen,, applied to the sky: somewhat overcast (R.).

black pudding, made of blood (oxblood) and meal. ; oxblood poured over cabbage in a pot and boiled together with meal:. Also with dropped m: [huska]: From is reported a form [ho‘ŋska] in the same sense as, reported from “hungska” is developed from “humska” by the change ms > ngs in Norn. — the same word as humske, hunske,, (unclean) liquid.
 * humska$2$ [(hu‘mska) ho‘mska] and
 * hunska [hu‘nska],, a kind of

humsker,, see $h$, ,

humsket, [ho‘mskət],, dark; murky; hazy; overcast; de sky is h.; From   is reported a parallel form [hø‘mskət], a h. sky. See $2$, , and  hymskjen, , to the sky: somewhat overcast.

humskin [ho‘mskin],, twilight; i’ de h. From ; see $n$, More :.

hun [hūn (hū$1$n, hô$2$n) hun], , 1) a wooden handle, a) the handle of the lid of a bucket or chest; b) a door-handle. 2) sea-term, tabu-name in fishermen’s for, , a gaff (a stick provided with an iron hook for landing a large fish); in this latter sense only reported from [hun]. 3) the mast-head with the hole through which the halyard goes for hoisting and lowering the sail; in : de o’ de mast.   [hūn]. 4) the uppermost end of a rafter, in, de , denoting the joining of the rafters at the top of a roof; de o’ de couples. — Beside is found a form [høn],  in the : “de o’ de mast” and “de o’ de couples”, reported from , , and  (in, on the other hand: hū$e$n, hō$ə$n, hun). Sa.: høn, h$ə$øn. — húnn,  húni, , a wooden handle, the handle of the lid of a chest or bucket; hun,, a plank covered with bark on one side. húnn,, a cube-shaped piece of wood, also mast-head (with húnbora = the hole through which the halyard goes); húnar,, mast-head, in poetry.

hund [hond],, a dog; pronounced with u [o]-sound, in Otherwise often:  [hȯnd, hȯᶇd], of a large, ugly dog. , is used as a contemptuous term about or to a person; dy [di hȯᶇd]! you hound!. Also [hønd]. A form.form, [sic] [hȯndi] is mostly used as a pet name for a dog. — hundr,, a dog, hund,  — Now : dog. In certain phrases, however, , or  are still used, as: a [hɔkən, håkən] h., a greedy dog; see the proverbial phrase given under ,

hundski [hu‘nski], disparaging term of address. you currish (fellow)? from hundskr, hundsk,, coarse; currish.

hen; [kərr] de ! shoo the hens away! , hœna,, a hen.  by dropped i-mutation. For another form of this word with the final s of the stem preserved, see
 * hunek [hūnək)[(hūnək) [sic] hô̅nək],, a

hungs [ho‘ŋs] and hunks [ho‘ŋks],