howdie, howdy

[HoUDIE.] A mid wife. howe, s. [HOLLOW.] A hollow. "Full of heights and howes."-Scott: Rob Roy, ch. xxvi. howe-back it, a . Sunk in the back; spoken of a horse, . "Thou's howe- back it , now, an' knaggie." Burns : Auld Farmer, to his Auld Mare Maggie . how-el, s . [Dan. hövl ; Ger. hobel =a plane.] Cooper.: A plane with a convex sole, used for smoothing the insides of barrels and casks. pine, pit, sire, sir, marîne; gō, pòt, however