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esp. thick, coarse peel; see hwäili, sb., and hwäilet, adj. 4) a small piece of flesh with skin attached; a small piece of ham; a bit of loosened skin of a finger, etc. Fe. — More rarely hwoli [hwȯli]. — O.N. hvelja, f., whale-skin; No. kvelja, f., film; crust.

hwelk¹, vb., see hwilk, vb.

hwelk², hwolk, sb. and vb., see kwolk, sb. and vb.

hwems, hwims [hwæ‘ms, hwə‘ms], sb., 1) a glance, a (quick) look askance. U. [hwæ‘ms]. 2) fidget, quick or restless movement in turning one’s body. Y. [hwə‘ms]; der’r [‘there is’] a h. upon him. — *hvims from *hvim; see hwems, vb. — hwums (kwums), sb., q.v., is more extended than hwems, hwims in sense 2.

hwems, hwims [hwæ‘ms, hwə‘ms], vb., 1) to glance sideways, to look askance. U. [hwæ‘ms]. 2) a) to fidget, to make quick movements; b) to pass quickly by; he hwimst by [‘past’] me. 3) to vanish suddenly; he hwimst ut o’ my sight. In senses 2 and 3 noted down in Y. and Fe. (Fe^e.) [hwə‘ms]. — *hvimsa from *hvima. Icel. hvima, vb., to move quickly and unsteadily; to look round slyly; No. kvima and kvimsa, Sw. dial. hvimsa (gvimsa), Da. dial. (Jut.) hvimse, vb., to fidget, bustle about. In a similar sense No. kvisma, vb.; but sense 2 of Shetl. hwemst (hwimst), adj., indicates a closer association with *hwims-. — See the more extended hwums (kwums), vb., and cf. hwerm¹, vb.

hwemst and hwimst [hwæ‘mst, hwə‘mst], adj., 1) continually looking from side to side, taking notes, a hwemst body. U. [hwæ‘mst]. 2) light-headed; silly; confused, prop. that which makes sudden, strange movements in turning the head or body; a hwimst body. Fe^e., Y^h.

[hwə‘mst]. — *hvims-. No. kvimsen, adj., restless, confused, Sw. dial. hvimsen, hvimsk, and Da. dial. hvims, adj., bewildered, confused. O.N. hvimsi, adj., is handed down in sense of blank, dull. — See hwumset, hwumsket, hwumst, adj.

hwen¹ [hwen, hwɛn (hwæn)], sb., lamentation, woe, see *kwen¹, sb.

hwen² [hwē^ən], sb., a stunt, a ram incapable of procreation; see kwin², kwini, and kwingi, sbs.

*hwenni [hweᶇɩ], sb., a quern, see kwern, sb.

hwepp [hwəp] and hwipp [hwɩp], vb., to snatch, twitch; he hwepped (hwipped) [hwəpəd, hwɩpəd] it ut o’ my hand; he hwipped her in ower. L. (hwepp). Uⁿ. (hwipp). Fo.: kwipp [kwɩp]. From Fe. is reported a parallel form hwupp [hwop], and from Wests. (Sa.): kwupp [kwop]; he hwupped [hwopəd] it ut o’ my hand. — *hveppa. Fær. kveppa, vb. n., to give a start, kveppa, vb. a., in the expr. “kveppa seg”, to give a start, = kveppa, vb. n. No. kveppa, a) vb. a., to startle; b) vb. n., to slip suddenly; to be shaken (with fear); applied to wind, smoke: to drive down in gusts. No. (Solør) gvepp (gvæpp) = kvepp, m., moment (R. Suppl.), indicates an orig. initial “hv”.

hwerf [hwæ‘rf], vb., to turn or rake together; now only applied to new-mown grass, hay: to turn the hay; to rake together into swaths (skoris) the newly cut grass spread on the field; to h. de hay. Uⁿ. The forms with dropped i-mutation are more extended: hwarv [hwarv, hwärv] (Easts.; N.I.) and kwarv [kwarv, kwärv] (Wests.; Nm^w. occas.; Conn.) or kwarf [kwa‘rf] (Ai. occas.); to hwarv (kwarv) hay, to turn the hay, occas. a) to rake the hay into swaths, occas. b) to spread out the hay, raked together into swaths