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word is = Sw. dial. hammla, hommla, vb., to round off, to lop off twigs; cf. O.N. hamla, vb., to mutilate, O.H.G. hamal, adj., curtailed, L.Sc. homyll, hummil, adj., polled (refers to a hornless cow). In the second sense, huml, homl, is Eng. and L.Sc. hummel, vb., to hummel bere.

humlaband, humliband, sb., see homliband.

humlins [homlɩns], sb. pl., whirlpools (Yⁿ.); see further swimlins, swumlins (under swiml, sb.), and hwumlins, sb.

humpi, hump-y [ho‘mpi], adj., rough, applied to the sea; de sea is gettin’ (turnin’) h. Du. No. humputt, adj., rough, uneven (hump, m., inter alia: roughness, unevenness: R.); Eng. humpy, adj. Cf. hums¹, sb.

humpigumpi [ho‘m··pigo‘m·pi and ho‘m·pigo‘m·pi], sb., rump, buttocks. U^c.; handed down especially in a versified riddle, beginning: I sat upo my h. The word is a compd. of *hump- (No. hump, m., knoll; piece of flesh; rump) and O.N. gumpr, m., rump. Cf. Sw. dial. hympägympä, n., of something baggy (in clothes).

hums¹ [hu‘ms, ho‘ms (ho‘mps)], sb., surge or swell in the sea, esp. with short, choppy (not breaking) waves; der’r [‘there is’] a h. i’ de sea. Nm^w. (Nibon) [hu‘ms]. N.Roe [ho‘ms (ho‘mps)]. Also homs [hȯ‘ms]: Ai. The word is to be classed with No. humsa, vb., to walk heavily, to stump; cf. No. humputt, adj., rough, uneven, and the use of Shetl. humpi, adj.

hums² [hu‘ms, ho‘ms], humsk [hu‘msk, ho‘msk], humsker [ho‘mskər], sb., gloomy sky, dense haze, a hums o’ mist (Wests.; L. occas.; Du.); also of gathering clouds. Often used to denote haze over the land some distance off; der’r a hums on de land, ower de land

(Nm^w.; Fo.). — hjums [hju‘ms] (Esh. occas., Nm^w.) = hums. — humsk: Nm. occas. [hu‘msk] and Wh. [ho‘msk]; a humsk ower de sky or land. humsker: Fo. — In Fo. and a few other places on Wests. is also used homs [hȯ‘ms], thin vapour or light clouds obscuring the sun to some extent. — From Deⁿ. (Brae) is reported hums [ho‘ms] in sense of dusk or dawn, de h. o’ de eenin’ [‘evening’], de h. o’ de mornin’. In De^w. (M.Roe) is found homs [hȯ‘ms], and in Nmⁿ. (N.Roe) a form hungs (hunks) [ho‘ŋs (ho‘ŋks)] in sense of evening twilight; he is comin’ to de h. o’ de night (in this sense more comm.: hømin), humskin [ho‘mskin]: L. — Deriv. of O.N. húm, n., gloom; dark air; twilight; see hum, sb. humska¹, sb., q.v., is prop. the same word as hums(k).

humset¹ [ho‘msət], hjumset [hjo‘msət], adj., ill-shaped, having a bad carriage, e.g. one shoulder higher than the other. Often used with prefixed “ill”: ill-h(j)umset. U. Other forms are: hungset [ho‘ŋsət], ill-hungset, hunkset and hjongset [hjɔ‘ŋsət] for *hongset. U.: hungset (U^c.) and hjongset. hunkset [ho‘ŋksət]: N.Roe. — The word is to be classed with No. humsa, vb., to walk heavily, to stump. Cf. hungs (hunks), vb.

humset² [ho‘msət], humsi, hums-y [ho‘msi], adj., of the sky, the weather: cloudy; misty; hazy; a h. sky, h. wadder, a h.-lookin’ day. From hums², sb. See humsket, adj.

humska¹ [ho‘mska] and homska [hɔ‘mska], sb., fleecy clouds, esp. in an overcast sky with openings between the clouds. U^n.-w., Nmⁿ. occas. From Nmⁿ. are reported the parallel forms hungska [ho‘ŋska], and with i-mutation: hømska [hø‘mska]. hømska is besides given by