I’m assuming this word is a misprint in Harrius, because it’s not in my dictionary, nor in words.exe. Here is its context:
‘age vero, puer, audi verba mea,’ inquit hirriens. (The fellow speaking is is in a somewhat excited state.)
I’m assuming it’s a present participle of either 3rd-i or 4th conjugation. Or it could be horrens, (bristling) but that would require 2 spelling mistakes in the same word. Does anyone have any ideas?
Just looked it up in the Oxford. One occurrence of hirrire, “to snarl”.
Thank you indeed. Snarling he would be.