‖ ˈhuso
Also anglicized huse.
[med.L. hūso, a. OHG. hûso = MHG. hûse, mod.Ger. hausen, early mod.Du. huys: cf. hausen.]
The great sturgeon, Acipenser huso, found esp. in the Black and Caspian Seas.
| 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Huso, the Hausen or Lask, a Fish of a prodigious Bigness, so as it can scarce be drawn with a Team of three or four Horses. 1708 Kersey, Huse, Huso. 1721 Bailey, Huse, a Fish, of which is made the white Glew called Ising-Glass. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. VI. 282 The Huso, or Isinglass Fish. 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. ii. 107 There are two noted species of this fish;..the one is called the sturgeon by way of eminence, and the other the huso. |