An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

HUT, s. A square basket, formerly used in Galloway for carrying out dung to the field, of which the bottom opened to let the contents fall out.

HUTHER, s. A wetting mist, S. B.

It's hutherin, it rains slightly, ibid.

Isl. hiufrar, parum pluit; hiufr, pluvia tenuis.

HUTHERIN, s.
1. A young heifer, Ang. Loth.
V. [Hudderin].
2. A stupid fellow, Orkney.

HUTTIS ILL, some disease.
Roull.

HUTTIT, adj. Hated, abominable.
Douglas.

Su. G. hutta, cum indignatione et contemtu ejicere.

HUTTOCK, s. Perhaps mitre.
Pal. Hon.

Fr. haute toque, high cap.