See Also: hyperphonesis(medicine)

udal (iou) and hyperphonesis (medicine)


udal (iou)



udal noun. . L15.

Chiefly Hist. A form of freehold tenure requiring no service or acknowledgement of a superior, characteristic of Orkney and Shetland and formerly practised by Other Scandinavian and early Germanic peoples; land held in this way. Usu. attrib.
attrib.: G. Barry These udal or allodial lands are directly opposed to fees or feus. Sir W. Scott The wide Udal possessions of their father..were divided betwixt the brothers.
? The usual form in Orkney and Shetland is udal.
udaller noun a tenant of land by udal right M17.

hyperphonesis (medicine)


hyperphonesis


An increase in the percussion sound or of the voice sound in auscultation.

Origin: hyper-+ G. Phonesis, a sounding