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HIRLING, HERLING, _s._ A small trout shaped like a salmon, its flesh reddish, Dumfr.
_Statist. Acc._
HIRNE, HYRNE, _s._
1. A corner.
_R. Bruce._
2. A retirement, a recess.
_Douglas._
A. S. _hyrn_, anc. Su. G. _hyrn_, angulus.
HYRONIUS, _adj._ Erroneous.
_Burel._
_To_ HIRPLE, _v. n._
1. To halt, S.
_Dunbar._
Su. G. _hwerfla_, to move circularly.
2. To move crazily, S.
_Burns._
HYRSALE, HIRSELL, HIRDSELL, HIRSLE, _s._
1. A mult.i.tude, a throng, S. _hissel_, Ayrs.
_Wyntown._
2. A flock, S.
_Ramsay._
Su. G. _haer_, an army, and _saell-a_, to a.s.semble.
_To_ ~Hirsell~, _v. a._ To put into different flocks, S. A.
_Stat. Acc._
HYRSETT, _s._ The payment of _Burrow mails_ for one year, as the condition on which a new-made burgess continued to enjoy his privilege, although his property was not built upon.
_Burr. Lawes._
A. S. _hyre_, merces, and _sett-an_, collocare.
_To_ HIRSILL, HIRSLE, _v. n._
1. To move resting on the hams, S.
_Ramsay._
Teut. _aersel-en_, culum versus ire.
2. To graze, to rub on.
_Douglas._
A. S. _hirstl-an_, crepere.
_To_ HIRSP, _v. n._ To jar.
_Calderwood._
E. to _rasp_, Su. G. _rasp-a_.
HIRST, _s._
1. A hinge.
_Douglas._
2. _Miln-hirst_, the place on which the crubs ly, within which the mill-stone rubs.
A. S. _kyrr_, cardo.
_Ruddiman._
HIRST, HURST, _s._
1. The bare and hard summit of a hill, S.
