HUSUM, a city of Denmark, in the province of Sleswick, the capital of a bailiwick of its own name, at the mouth of the river Hever. It contains several public buildings, 800 houses, and 3700 inhabitants, and was, during one
period of the revolutionary war, from being neutral, converted into a place of great trade in colonial produce, which was conveyed from the stores in Heligoland, and distributed over the continent by smugglers. Long. 9. 6. E. Lat. 54. 32. N.