holksn.
Scottish and northern dialect.
A disease of the eyes or face.
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holks1513
red heat1527
hypopyon1706
photophobia1772
buphthalmos1821
ophthalmoplegia1835
periorbitis1839
ophthalmoplegy1848
pinguecule1858
choked disc1870
optic neuritis1873
cyclitis1879
papillitis1879
Leber's disease1890
ophthalmopathy1897
papilloedema1908
sanpaku1963
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iii. Prol. 27 Suppose the holkis be all ourgrowin thi face.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xvi. 86 I thinke the holkis ouergangis ȝour ene.
1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 50 He [sc. a horse] had neither..the howks, nor the haws.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Howks or Haaks, a disease of the eye.
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