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191 Horse adder. The horse fly, the dragon fly. Housen. This old plural form for houses is nearly obsolete. Hov. Heave. In Spenser, Hove, HoWSUmever, or Howsomdever. Howsoever. Huccaner. A wood corner. M.A.C. Hucksen. The knuckles, or joints. "Muck up to the hucksen." Hubba ! and Hevah ! " Great excitement prevailed here (St. Mawes). The cry of Hubba! rang through the town, and quantities of pilchards were reported to be passing through the stems. The seines were soon manned and pulled with all possible speed." Cornishman, Oct 13, 1881. " The welcome sound of Hevah ! was heard at St. Ives yesterday, and the boats on the look-out for pilchards were instantly on the alert." Western Morning News, Oct. 14, 1881. These words, Hubba and Hevah, require a little notice. Hubha is wrong, it should be Uhha as written in ancient manuscripts. It is a Celtic Cornish word, meaning, in this place, here. In Uhha we seem to have the sound of the word Hubbub. Anciently Uhha was written Uhma, and still more anciently it was omma, in which we have some of the sound of the word hum, a continued sound, or murmur. Hevah by the change of a letter would be heuah or hewah, just as we find Eval to be pronounced Yeul or Yewl and Yewal, words for a three-pronged dung-fork.