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_To_ HOUK, _v. a._ Expl. To heap.
_Gl. Sibb._
HOUK, _s._ A large ship.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _holk_, navis oneraria.
HOURIS, _s. pl._
1. Matins.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
2. Metaph. the chanting of birds.
_Dunbar._
Fr. _heures_, a book of prayers for certain hours.
HOURS. _Ten hours_, ten o'clock, S.
_Acts Ja. I._
Fr. _qu'elle heure_, S. _what hours?_
HOUSS, _s._ A castle.
_Wallace._
Su. G. _hus_, castellum, arx.
HOW, _adj._ Hollow.
V. ~Holl~.
~How~, _s._
1. Any hollow place, S.
_Ross._
2. A plain, S.
_Statist. Acc._
3. The hold of a ship.
_Douglas._
4. _Dung in the howes_, overturned.
_Baillie._
HOW, _s._ A tumulus, Orkn.
_Stat. Acc._
Isl. _haug_, Su. G. _hoeg_, a sepulchral mound.
HOW, _s._
1. A coif or hood. S. B. p.r.o.n. _hoo_.
_Kelly._
Belg. _huyve_, Dan. _hue_, id.
2. A chaplet.
_Douglas._
A. S. _hufe_, tiara.
3. _Sely how_, also _happy how_, a membrane on the head, with which some children are born; p.r.o.n. _hoo_, S. B.
_Ruddiman._
HOW, HOU, HOO, _s._ A piece of wood, which joins the _couple-wings_ together at the top, on which rests the roof-tree of a thatched house, S.
_Ramsay._
Su. G. _huf_, summitas tecti.
HOW, _s._ A hoe, S.
Fr. _houe_.
