An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 430 : _To_ HOUK, _v. a._ Expl. To heap. _Gl. Sibb._ HOUK, _s._ A large s.h.i.+p. _Douglas._

_To_ HOUK, _v. a._ Expl. To heap.

_Gl. Sibb._

HOUK, _s._ A large s.h.i.+p.

_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 s.h.i.+p.

_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_.