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▪ I. † huss, n.
Also 5 husk(e; 9 hurse.
[Deriv. unascertained: the change of husk to huss appears to be as in Sc. busk, buss, etc.]
The dog-fish, the skin of which was much used by fletchers for smoothing and polishing arrows; the lesser or greater spotted dogfish, Scyliorhinus caniculus or S. stellaris. Also attrib., as huss skin (huskyn, hurse-skin).
c1440Promp. Parv. 254/2 Huske, fyshe (K.,H., husk, fishe).., squamus. 1530Palsgr. 233/2 Husse a fyshe, rousette. 1550–1600Customs Duties (B.M. Addit. MS. 25097), Huskyns for Fletchers, The skyn vjd. 1612Rates of Customs in Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 328 Skins called..Husse skins for fletchers the skin..vis. 1662Stat. Irel. (1765) II. 415 Huss skins for fletchers, the skin 6d. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 286 Buck dress'd..Calf..Huss..Sheep and Lamb Skins. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Hurse-skin, the hard tuberculated skin of a fish, from which shagreen is made. 1963Newnes Encycl. Angling 232/2 Until recently, dogfish have been sold in the shops under the more glamorous name of rock salmon... Today, the recommended names in the retail shops are huss, flake, and rig. 1965S. Norton-Bracy in Newnes Compl. Guide Sea Angling 117/2 The lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula), a smaller edition of the greater spotted, is also known by many names, probably the best known of them being robin huss... Many anglers seem to think it should have been ‘robbing’ huss, due to its habit of nipping off the bait. 1967R. Arnold Anglers' Handbk. xv. 161 The most popular dogfish, from the angler's standpoint, is the bull huss, or large spotted dog, or nurse hound. 1972A. Wrangles Inshore Sport Fishing v. 117 Lesser spotted dogfish... Local names. Sandy dog, dogger, rough hound, blind Jimmy, huss, etc. Ibid. 118 Greater spotted dogfish... Local names. Bull huss, nurse hound, etc.
▪ II. † huss, v. Obs.
[An echoic word, parallel to huzz. Cf. hoss.]
intr. To buzz.
1530Palsgr. 589/1, I husse, I bomme or make a noyse, as a flye dothe..Declared in ‘I hosse’. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. ii. (1870) 126 Muche lyke the hussyng of a homble be. 1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 67, I feel a hussing thing go from my head. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 38 We find such a hussing Breez, that sometimes we are not able to ply against it. |