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hosu

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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hosu, e (an ?); f. (and <b>? hosa,</b> an; m.; but perhaps hosa, Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 48, might be pl., or a mistake for hose (cf. eága for eáge, 70, 42,
or for hosu)
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  • Hosa caliga vel

    ocrea,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 48.
  • Synd gesealde from þám abbode ealle neádbehéfe þing, þæt is . . . hosa (hosan, R. Ben I. 93, 9,

    calige

    ),
      R. Ben. 92, 3.
  • Habbon hig tó fótgewǽdum hosa (hosan,

      R. Ben. I. 92, 1), 88, 14.
  • Hý habbaþ pohhede hosa (

    caligas follicantes

    ),
      136, 23.
  • Gyf þú hosa habban wille, þonne stríc þú uppweard on þínum sceancum mid þínum twám handum,

      Tech. ii. 127, 12.
a husk, pod
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  • Hose

    glumulá,

      An. Ox. 8, 94.
  • Pisan hosa

    siliqua,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 120, 58.
  • See hosa in Dict. v. leþer-hosu, scin-hosu; lǽs-hosum.
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v.  hosa.
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  • hosu, n.