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hǽre

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
hǽre, an; f.
Hair-cloth, sack-cloth; cilicium, saccus
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  • Gefyrn hí dydun dǽdbóte on hǽran and on axan

    olim in cilicio et cinere pænitentiam egissent,

      Mt. Kmbl. 11, 21.
  • Mid hǽran gescrýdd

    clad in sackcloth,

      Homl. Th. ii. 312, 27 : Ps. Spl. 34, 15.
  • Se cyning dyde hǽran tó his líce

    the king put sackcloth next to his skin,

      Homl. Th. i. 568, 13.
  • Ðú slite hǽran míne

    conscidisti saccum meum,

      Ps. Spl, 29, 13.
Etymology
[Laym. ane ladliche here : A. R. here, heare, 'Iudit werede heare :' Prompt. Parv. hayre cilicium. Cilicium, velamen factum de pilis caprarum a heere. An haire cilicium : Icel. hæra; f : O. H. Ger. hárra, hara; f. cilicium, saccus.]
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v.  earan.
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  • hǽre, n.