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hós

  • noun
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Grammar
hós, a bramble.
Wright's OE grammar
§61; §286;
Substitute: hos, pl. hossas and (?) hosa a shoot, tendril
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  • Hos butrus (cf. cyprus, arbor est habens . . .

    butros

    sicut erba pratorum,
      Ld. Gl. H. 90, col. 2), Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 27: ii. 11, 56.
  • Mænifealde hosses

    spissos (palmitum) pampinos,

      An. Ox. 564.
  • Hisses, hosses,

      Hpt. Gl. 419, 69.
  • Twigu ł hosa

    ramnos (ramos seems to have been read. Cf. ramus twig, Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 80: but hosa from its form seems to belong to hosu ),

      Ps. Cam. 57, 10.
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