hoven, ppl. a. (and n.) Now dial.
(ˈhəʊv(ə)n)
Also hove.
[pa. pple. of heave v., q.v.]
Swollen, bloated, puffed out; esp. applied to cattle when swollen with over-feeding: cf. hoove. Also fig. and as n.
| 1555 Will of J. Pyshe (Somerset Ho.), A brown hove cow. 1573 Tusser Husb. xlix. (1878) 108 Tom Piper hath houen and puffed vp cheekes; If cheese be so houen, make Cisse to seeke creekes. 1599 Broughton's Let. iii. 13 Your houen imaginations. 1674–91 Ray N.C. Words 143 Hoven⁓bread, zymites. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. v. 244/1 Bad Cheese..is..full of Eyes, not well prest but hoven and swelling. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. v. 284 Glad you got through with the pock so well{ddd}its worse than horn-ail, hoven or core. 1851 Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 419 Veterinary..stomach pump..for hove cattle. 1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern V. ii. 38 Sometimes a whole lot will get hoven with clover. 1877 Rep. Vermont Dairym. Assoc. VIII. 107 Hoven in cattle is caused by over-feeding upon succulent food like green clover. 1878 [see bloat n. 1 b]. 1891 [see blowing vbl. n.1 2 d]. 1902 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CXCIX. A. 400 The symptoms of ‘hoven’ are not unlike those of prussic acid poisoning. 1962 [see bloat n. 1 b]. |