halsenadj.
south-western dialect.
Of hazel.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [adjective] > of or pert to particular nut-trees > of or relating to hazel
hazeleneOE
halsen1587
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 178/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II He caused a number of flakes and hurdels to be made of halson, allers, and withie rods.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Halse A hazel-rod is..a ‘halsen stick’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
halsenv.
Obsolete exc. dialect.† 1. transitive. To call upon in the name of something holy, to adjure; = halse v.1 2. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > appeal to or invoke
halsec825
askOE
witnec1200
halsenc1290
calla1325
incalla1340
to speak to ——1362
interpel1382
inclepec1384
turnc1384
becallc1400
ethec1400
peala1425
movec1450
provoke1477
adjure1483
invoke1490
conjurea1500
sue1521
invocatea1530
obtest1548
obtestate1553
to throw oneself on (or upon)1592
obsecrate1598
charm1599
to cry on ——1609
behight1615
imprecate1643
impray1855
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 479/587 Ich halsni þe a-godes name þat þou wende to Marcilie.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 253 Ich you helsny þet ye..loki uram wilninges.
c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 193 O deere child I halsen [so Hengwrt; 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 modern s.w. dialect, to augur ill, predict evil of.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > augur, divine from omens [verb (intransitive)]
conject1496
halsen1587
preominate1594
augurize1596
augur1599
signa1616
ominate1637
augurate1642
conjecture1652
auspicate1848
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 181/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II 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 & regiment.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Halseny ‘Her'll halseny all the day long 'bout every body.’
Derivatives
ˈhalsening n. augury, prognostication.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun]
whatec1000
conjecturec1384
conjecturingc1384
augurya1413
augurationc1450
augurism1584
halsening1587
auguring1614
augurizing1652
conjectation1652
teratoscopy1665
prognostication1688
1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland ii. xxxiv. 52/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II 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.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1305/2 Which his halsening in the end came partlie to effect.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 133v But this halsening, the present flourishing estate of that kingdome, vtterly conuinceth of falshood.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 15 Thee wut..Oll vor whistering and pistering, and hoaling and halzening, of cuffing a Tale.
halsening adj. auguring, boding.
ΚΠ
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 1v This ill-halsening hornie name [Cornwall] hath..opened a gap to the scoffes of many.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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