Middle English Dictionary Entry
hōs adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | hōs adj. Also hose, hoce, hois, hous, hase, haise & hōrs(e. |
| Etymology | OE hās & *hārs (cp. OI hāss, from *hairsa & OFlem. heersch, from *heirs). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of the voice: husky, cracked, hoarse; (b) of persons: unable to speak in a clear voice, having a husky or cracked voice, hoarse; -- also used of vocal organs; (c) of a horn: not clear or musical in tone; of thunder:?indistinct, faint.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)504 : Ne miȝtu leng a word i-queþe, ac pipest al so doþ a mose, mid chokeringe mid steune hose.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)148a/b : The Capoun..clockynge with an hoos voys [L raucida].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)334a/a : Þe harde voice is hose.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)59/12 : A wood hound..if þat he..berke, his vois is ful hors [L raucam].
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)37 : Whan þe fixen..goth in hure loue..she cryeth wiþ an hos vois as an wood hounde.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.1147 : With broken vois al hoors [vr. hois] forshright, Criseyde..thise ilke wordes seyde.
- a1425 Adam & E.(3) (Wht)82/28 : Adam wiþ teeris criede to þe Lord..so þat his vois wexide hors.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)55a/a : Raucidus: hos [Way: hooce].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)110b/b : Rauc i. hose voyce, as if he spake wiþ þe noseþrillez.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)1733 : With hors voys, as myne autour tellyth hys dying, Amoryus her teld that he went be her kerchyff blodye.
- a1450(a1400) Medit.Pass.(2) (Add 11307)1836 : Whi is it so hors, þe voys so cler?
- ?c1460 Medulla (Add 33534)248 : Raucidulus: sum dele hoce [StJ-C: Sumdel hoos].
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)83a/a : A wood hound..berkiþ at his owne schadowe, but his voys is hors.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)61a : Hayse [Monson: Hase]: Raucus.
b
- c1330 KTars (Auch)48/632 : Oft he kneled & oft he ros, & crid so long til he was hos.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.68.4 : I trauailide criende, horse [vr. hoos; WB(2): hoose; vrr. horse, hoorse; L rauce] ben maad my chekis.
- (c1390) Chart.Abbey HG (LdMisc 210)346 : My chaules aken & ben woxen al hose [vr. hors].
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)68.4 : Haase [vr. hous] ere made Chekes [L fauces] mine for pine i hade.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)17.324 : Smoke & smolder smyteth his eyen, Til he be..hors [vrr. hoos, hos] in þe throte.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)3620 : By speche might no man Gawain knaw, So was he hase and spak ful law.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)178/28 : Whanne she hadde al daye cryed vnto nyghte, here chekes were made hose, soo þat in þe begynnynge of þe nyghte vnneþes she myght put forþe any voys.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)68.4 : Thai vndirstode me noght na mare than man may do a hase man.
- a1500 Eglam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)927 : That damycelle..So sore had gret..Sche was wexyn alle horse [rime: apase, face, tase; Clg: hose].
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)299 : The lady myght no lenger crye ne brayen, she was so hoorse.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)129/416 : What makys me thus hose [rime: toose]?
c
- c1410 St.Anselm Medit.(UC 97)444 : Allas for sorwe of þat deede slepe, þe which so grisly a þunder is to hoos for to wakene!
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)347 : Me thoght I herde an hunte blowe T'assay hys horn and for to knowe Whether hyt were clere or hors of soun.