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hir or ir, indecl. n. [from χείρ, like heres from χῆρος, and hiems from χεῖμα, χειμών], a hand: quibu’ vinum Defusum e pleno siet, ir siphove, cui nil Dempsit, i. e. the palm of the hand, used in tasting wine, Lucil. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; cf. Charis. p. 12 P.; Prisc. p. 648 ib.; 698 ib.

hīra, ae, f., the empty gut; called also intestinum jejunum, Gr. νῆστις, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6 fin.; Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 23; Arn. 7, 24.

hircīnus (hirquīnus), a, um, adj. [hircus], of a goat, goat’s: barba, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 12: sanguis, Plin. 20 prooem. § 2; 37, 4, 15, § 59: pelles, id. 12, 17, 40, § 81: folles, Hor. S. 1, 4, 19: sidus, i. e. the constellation Capricorn, Prud. Apoth. 621.
Comically: alae, that have a goatish smell, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 51.

* Hircĭpes, pĕdis, m. [hircus-pes], goat-footed, an appellation of Pan, Mart. Cap. 9, § 906.

hirco, āre, v. n., to howl, of the sound of the lynx, Auct. Carm. de Philom. 51.

hircōsus, a, um, adj. [hircus], that smells like a goat, goatish: senex, Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 14: gens centurionum, Pers. 3, 77: subulcus, Mart. 10, 98, 10; cf.: licet scripti sint inter hircosos, possint tamen inter unguentatos placere, Sen. Fragm. ap. Gell. 12, 2, 11; Mart. 12, 59, 5.

hircŭlus, i, m. dim. [hircus].

  1. I. A little goat, Auct. Priap. 86, 16 (Ps.-Catull. 19, 16).
  2. II. A plant, otherwise unknown, Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 46.

* hircŭōsus, a, um, adj. [hircus], goatish: Pan, App. M. 5, p. 169 fin.

hircus (also hircŭus and ircus; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 20; and the Sabine form, FIRCUS, Varr. L. L. 5, § 97 Müll.; cf. haedus init.), i, m., a he-goat, buck (cf. haedus, caper).

  1. I. Lit., Verg. E. 3, 8; 91; id. G. 3, 312; Hor. Epod. 16, 34; id. A. P. 220 (Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 60: foedissimum animalium).
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. Like caper, a goatish smell, the rank smell of the armpits: hircum ab alis (sapere), Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 48: alarum, Cat. 71, 1: an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in alis, Hor. Epod. 12, 5: pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, id. S. 1, 2, 27; 1, 4, 92.
    2. B. An epithet applied to a filthy person: hircus, hara suis, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 38: propter operam illius hirqui improbi edentuli, id. Cas. 3, 2, 20.
    3. C. Of voluptuous persons, id. Merc. 2, 2, 1; 4; Cat. 37, 5; Poët. Atell. ap. Suet. Tib. 45.

hirnĕa (also irnea), ae, f., a jug for holding liquids, Cato, R. R. 81; Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 273; 276.

hirnŭla, ae, f. dim. [hirnea], a small jug or pitcher for liquids; in an unaspirated form: irnela vasis genus in sacris, Paul. ex Fest. p. 105 Müll. N. cr. (but urnulas is the true reading in Cic. Par. 1, 2, 11).

hirpex, ĭcis, v. irpex.

Hirpi, ōrum, m., a very ancient Sabine family near Rome, in the territory of the Falisci, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 19; Sol. 2, § 26.

Hirpīni (Irpīni), ōrum, m.,

  1. I. a people of Lower Italy, between Campania, Lucania, and Apulia, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 99; Liv. 22, 61, 11; 23, 37; 27, 15: in Hirpinis, in the territory of the Hirpini, Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79; Plin. 2, 93, 95, § 208; so, ex Hirpinis, Liv. 22, 13 init.: in Hirpinis, id. 23, 1.
  2. II. Deriv. Hirpīnus (Irp-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Hirpini: ager, fundus, Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 8: pubes, Sil. 8, 571.

‡ hirpus or irpus, in the Sabine lang., the wolf, Paul. ex Fest. p. 106, 1 Müll.; Serv. ad Verg. A. 11, 785.

hirquīnus, a, um, v. hircinus.

‡ hirquitallĭo, īre, v. n. [hircus], of new-born children, to acquire a strong voice: in secunda hebdomade vel incipiente tertia vocem crassiorem et inaequabilem fieri: quod Aristoteles appellat τραγίζειν, antiqui nostri ‡ hirquitallire: et inde ipsos putant ‡ hirquitallos appellari, quod tum corpus hircum olere incipiat, Censor. de Die Nat. 14, 7; cf.: ‡ hirquitalli pueri primum ad virilitatem accedentes, a libidine scilicet hircorum dicti, Paul. ex Fest. p. 101 Müll. N. cr.; and without the aspiration: ‡ irquitallus puer, qui primo virilitatem suam experitur, id. p. 105.

‡ hirquitallus, i, v. the preced. art.

hirquus, i, v. hircus.

hirrĭo (irrio), īre, v. n., of dogs, to snarl: hirrire = garrire, quod genus vocis est canis rabiosae, Paul. ex Fest. p. 101 Müll. N. cr.; cf.: hirrit ὅταν κύων ἀπειλῇ ὑλακτῶν, Gloss. Philox.: veluti est canibus innatum, ut, etsi non latrant, tamen hirriant, Sid. Ep. 7, 3; Diom. 367 P.

* hirrītus (irr-), ūs, m. [hirrio], a snarling of dogs, Sid. Ep. 9, 16 in carm.

* hirsūtĭa, ae, f. [hirsutus], roughness, shagginess: nullae setarum, Sol. 25, § 10.

hirsūtus, a, um, adj. [primary form HIRSUS, a variation of hirtus], rough, shaggy, bristly, prickly, hirsute = δασύς.

  1. I. Lit. (class.; syn. hirtus, pilosus, villosus): quarum (animantium) aliae villis vestitae, aliae spinis hirsutae, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; Col. 7, 2, 6: pectus Herculis, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 49: crura genaeque, Mart. 10, 65, 9: supercilium, Verg. E. 8, 34: et glacialis Hiems canos hirsuta capillos, Ov. M. 2, 30: barba, id. ib. 13, 766: capilli, id. H. 9, 63: juba (galeae), Prop. 4 (5), 10, 20: vellera (leonis) setis, Ov. F. 2, 339: castaneae, Verg. E. 7, 53; cf.: frondes, id. G. 3, 231: vepres, id. ib. 3, 444: rubi, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 28: folia hirsutiora, Plin. 22, 22, 33, § 75.
    Poet., to designate the people of the olden time (when the hair of the head and beard was left untrimmed), like intonsus and incomptus, Sil. 13, 812; Mart. 9, 48, 2.
  2. * II. Trop., rude, unpolished: sumpserit Annales: nihil est hirsutius illis, Ov. Tr. 2, 259.

‡ hirticulus δασυπρωκτος, Gloss. Phil.

Hirtīnus, a, um, v. Hirtius.

‡ hirtipili durorum pilorum homines, Paul. ex Fest. p. 101 Müll. N. cr.

Hirtĭus, a, name of a Roman gens.; in partic., A. Hirtius, consul A. U. C. 711, and author of the eighth book of Cœsar’s Commentaries on the Gallic war: he fell before Mutina, Cic. Att. 7, 4, 2; Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 27, 1.
Hirtīnus, a, um, of Hirtius: proelium, the battle in which Hirtius met his death, Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4.

(hirtŭōsus, a, um, false read. in App. M. 5, p. 169, inst. of hircuosus.)

hirtus, a, um, adj., rough, hairy, shaggy, = δασύς (mostly post-Aug.; cf. hirsutus, hispidus, pilosus, villosus, setosus).

  1. I. Lit.: oves, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 19: hirto corde quosdam homines nasci proditur, Plin. 11, 37, 70, § 185: ora (Scythis), Curt. 4, 13: frons, Sil. 16, 121: toga, Luc. 2, 386; Quint. 12, 10, 47; cf. tunica, Nep. Dat. 3, 2: setae in corpore, Ov. M. 13, 850; cf. comae, Curt. 5, 6 fin.: saxa dumis, Stat. S. 3, 1, 13; cf. saepes, Col. poët. 10, 27; and: ager spinigeris stirpibus, Prud. στεφ. 11, 120: hirtiora folia, App. Herb. 71: aequor, rough, uneven surface, Prud. στεφ. 9, 53.
  2. II. Trop., of character, rough, rude, unpolished: non tibi parvum Ingenium, non incultum est et turpiter hirtum, * Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 22: C. Marius hirtus atque horridus, Vell. 2, 11 (cf., of Marius sordidum me et incultis moribus aiunt, Sall. J. 85, 39).

hĭrūdo, ĭnis, f. (also called sanguisūga), a leech, blood-sucker, Plin. 32, 10, 42, § 122: ego me convortam in hirudinem atque exsugebo sanguinem, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 4.
Fig., of any thing that exhausts, etc.: aerarii, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11: non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris, hirudo, Hor. A. P. 476.

hĭrundĭnĕus, a, um, adj. [hirundo], of or belonging to swallows (post-class.): adventus, of the swallows, Sid. Ep. 2, 14; cf. the foll. art.

hĭrundĭnīnus, a, um, adj. [hirundo], of or belonging to swallows, swallows’ (class.): sanguis, fel, Plin. 30, 14, 46, § 133: nidus, Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 6; Mart. 11, 18, 20.

hĭrundo, ĭnis, f. (weakened from χελιδών), a swallow.

  1. I. Lit., Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 92; 10, 24, 34, § 70; Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 12; Verg. G. 1, 377; id. A. 12, 474; Ov. F. 2, 853; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 13.
    As a term of endearment: dic me anaticulam, columbam vel catellum, Hirundinem, monedulam, etc., Plaut. As. 3, 3, 104.
    Prov.: quid contendat hirundo cycnis? Lucr. 3, 6 (for which: certent cycnis ululae, Verg. E. 8, 55).
  2. II. Transf., a flying sea-fish, sea-swallow, Exocoetus volitans s. evolans, Linn.; Plin. 9, 26, 43, § 81.

irpex (hirpex), ĭcis, m., = ἅρπαξ, a large rake with iron teeth, used for the same purpose as our harrow (still called erpice by the Italians), Cato, R. R. 10, 2; Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.; Serv. Verg. G. 1, 95.