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Shetl.-Ork. “homer, hoemother” = basking shark, the largest species of shark. — From Y^h. is reported “homuth [hōmuþ] skark” as the name of a shark, larger than ho-brand; q.v.

ho-midder, hoe-mother, sb., see under homer, sb.

homl, hommel, vb., see hum(me)l.

homliband [hȯm··lɩband· (hɔm··lɩband·)] and humliband [hom··lɩband·], sb., a grommet (prop. made from raw hide, now also from rope) for fixing an oar to the thole-pin, de keb, in rowing. comm. Also humlaband [hom··laband·] and hombliband [hȯm··blɩband·] (U.). — O.N. hamla, f., and hǫmluband, n., a grommet.

ho-mooth’d [hō·muþd·], adj., having a protruding upper jaw; a h.-m. animal, sheep. Y^s. Prop. like a shark’s mouth.

homs¹, sb., see hums¹, sb.

homs², sb., see hums², humsk, sb.

homs³ [hȯ‘ms], sb., sulky or capricious temper; he guid [‘went’] aff in a h. Fo. See the foll. word.

homs [hȯ‘ms], adj., sulky; irritable; touchy; capricious. Fo. Cf. No. humsken and hymskjen, adj., indisposed; disinclined; somewhat sulky; L.Sc. hum, adj., dissatisfied; fretful, and humstrum, sb., pettish temper, etc.

homska, sb., see humska¹, sb.

homst, adj., see hims, hims(e)t, adj.

homuth-shark, see under homer, sb.

hond [hȯnd, hȯᶇd], sb., a dog, see hund, sb.

hondigru [hȯᶇ··digrū·], adjectival term, noted down in the expr. “to lie h.”: a) lying in a crouching position; “I’m [‘I have’] been lyin’ h. ‘treeangle’ like a marflu”; b) unoccupied through indisposition,

not able to work, and yet not confined to bed. Y^h. If meaning 1 be the original, the word might be regarded as a contraction of an old “*(sem) hundr við gru̇fu”, “(like) a dog by the hearth”. Poss. to be compared with the Norw. phrase “sitja hund (hoond) i baate”, to sit askew in the boat (R.).

hondiklokk, sb., see honnklokk (hornklokk), sb.

honds [hȯᶇdᶎ], vb., to incite, to set a dog (on), esp. on sheep; to drive by means of a dog; to h. de sheep = the now more common “to hond [hȯnd (hȯᶇd)] de sheep”. honds is used yet more frequently in a wider sense: to bully; drive; chase, to h. ane [‘one’] ut. N.I.? A form hunds [ho‘ns] in sense of (to bully) to drive; chase; turn out, to h. ut, is reported by J.I. — *hundsa. Cf. Da. hundse, Sw. dial. hunnsa, vb., to hound out, prop. to treat like a dog. For the sound-change un(d)s, on(d)s > ȯᶇdᶎ in Shetl. cf. bons, sb., rons and skonzj, vbs.

hondshol [hȯndᶎ··hɔl·, hȯᶇdᶎ-], sb., a hole or a widening like a pool in a brook in which pups are (were) drowned. The word is now esp. used as a place-name, “de Hondshol”, e.g. in Wisdal burn (Wd., M.), and in West Sandwick burn (Y.). *hunds-hol, n., a dog’s hole.

*honga [hɔŋga] and *honge [hɔŋgə], vb., to hang; only preserved in a riddle about the cow (see Introd., Fragments of Norn), honga: Fe. honge: U. O.N. hanga, vb., to hang.

honger [hɔŋgər, håŋgər], sb., sea-term, tabu-name in fishermen’s lang. for a kettle, pot. Yⁿ., Wests. occas. Prop. the hanging one, that which hangs (in the chain or hook, de kruk and de links). *hangari, m., from O.N. hanga, vb., to hang. See *honga, vb.

hongs, vb., see hungs, vb.