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▪ I. halsen, a. s.w. dial.
Also -on.
[f. halse, hazel + -en.]
Of hazel.
1586J. Hooker [of Exeter] Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 178/1 He caused a number of flakes and hurdels to be made of halson, allers, and withie rods. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word.-bk. s.v., A hazel-rod is..a ‘halsen stick’.
▪ II. halsen, v. Obs. exc. dial.
In 3 halsni, 4 helsny, 6 halson, 6–7 halsen.
[Extended form of halse v.1, as if from an OE. *háls-, *hǽlsnian.]
†1. trans. To call upon in the name of something holy, to adjure; = halse v.1 2. Obs.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 479/587 Ich halsni þe a-godes name þat þou wende to Marcilie. 1340Ayenb. 253 Ich you helsny þet ye..loki uram wilninges. c1386Chaucer Prioress' T. 193 O deere child I halsen [so Heng.; v.rr. halse, hailse, hailese] thee In vertu of the hooly Trinitee, Tel me what is thy cause for to synge.
2. To augur, foreshow by auspices, prognosticate; in mod. s.w. dial., to augur ill, predict evil of.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 181/1 Some speciall points of his late seruice..which doo halson and giue a hope that he will Addere colophonem, and bring that land to a full and perfect gouernment and regiment. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., ‘Her'll halseny all the day long 'bout every body.’
Hence ˈhalsening vbl. n., augury, prognostication; halsening ppl. a., auguring, boding.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 52/2 He tooke ship in Milford hauen, but for hast he left to doo his deuotion and oblation at saint Dauids, which was but an euill halsoning. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 305/2 Which his halsening in the end came partlie to effect. 1602Carew Cornwall 1 b, This ill-halsening hornie name [Cornwall] hath..opened a gap to the scoffes of many. Ibid. 133 b, But this halsening, the present flourishing estate of that Kingdome, utterly convinceth of falsehood. 1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 56 Thee wut..Oll vor whistering and pistering, and hoaling and halzening, of cuffing a Tale. |