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▪ I. † hirst Sc. Obs.
[Origin unknown.]
A threshold; or perh., in early use, a hinge.
1513Douglas æneis i. vii. 57 The brasin durris iargis on the marble hirst. Ibid. vi. ix. 87 Thai wareit portis, jargand on the hirst [stridentes cardine] Warpit wp braid. Ibid. vii. xi. 33 Wythin that girgand hirst [stridentia limina] also suld he Pronunce the new weyrs, battale, and melle. [1819Hogg Lenachan's Farew. ii. in Jacob. Songs (1887) 227 But if serf or Saxon came, He crossed Murich's hirst nae mair.]
▪ II. hirst
obs. form of hurst. |