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HOWE, adj.², adv. ?Sh. 1890 J. Sinclair Scenes & Stories 233:
The Shetlander sometimes uttered his word of command to the fairies in much briefer language, such as — "Skeet howe hame, guid folk."

[The word is glossed as "quickly," which seems an error, but, if authentic, the whole may have been corrupted from some longer phr. including the word How, n.²]

Howe adj.2, adv.

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