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HORS

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
HORS, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§106; §280; §306; §343;
A HORSE
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  • Geþracan hors mannus vel brunnicus : hors of stéden vel of asrenne

    burdo,

      Ælfc. Gl. 5; Som. 56, 18, 19; Wrt. Voc. 17, 23, 24.
  • Hors hófum wlanc, Runic pm. Kmbl. 343,

      5; Rún. 19.
  • Ne beó gé ná swylce hors

    nolite fteri sicut equus,

      Ps. Th. 31, 10.
  • Ðá wæs Hróðgáre hors gebæted wicg wundenfeax

    then for Hrothgar was a horse bitted, a steed with plaited mane,

      Beo. Th. 2803; B. 1399.
  • Ne hé on horses hrycge cuman wolde ac hé his fótum geeode

    non equorum dorso sed pedum incessu vectus,

      Bd. 3, 5; S. 526, 28.
  • Nis horses flǽsc forboden

    caro equina non est prohibita,

      L. Ecg. C. 38; Th. ii. 162, 16.
  • Wið horses hreófle . . . dó on ðæt hors swá hit hátost mǽge

    for a horse's leprosy . . . apply it to the horse as hot as possible,

      L. M. 1, 88; Lchdm. ii. 152, 10.
  • Gelícnes horses and monnes. Exon. l09 b; Th. 418,

      26; Rä. 37, 11.
  • Ðí byþ swíðe dysig se ðe getrúwaþ on his horses swiftnesse

    falsus equus ad salutem,

      Ps. Th. 32, 15.
  • Cwæþ mid hospe horse mete is bere

    said contemptuously 'Barley is food far a horse,'

      Homl. Skt. 3, 216.
  • Man his hors under him ofsceát

    his horse was shot under him,

      Ors. 5, 2; Bos. 101, 42.
  • Ic seah sroh [

    the word is written in runes

    ] hygewloncne, Exon. 105 a; Th. 400, 1; Rä. 20, 1.
  • Horsa steal

    carceres,

      Ælfc. Gl. 61; Som. 68, 54; Wrt. Voc. 39, 37.
  • Horsa hnǽgung

    neighing of horses,

      Ælfc. Gl. 1; Som. 2, 38.
  • Hé wæs mid ðǽm fyrstum mannum on ðæm lande næfde hé ðeáh má ðonne twentig hrýðera and twentig sceápa and twentig swýna; ond ðæt lytle ðæt hé erede hé erede mid horsan

    he [Ohthere] was among the first men of the country; and yet he had not more than twenty oxen and twenty sheep and twenty swine; and the little that he ploughed, he ploughed with horses,

      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 18, 12-15.
  • Ða hors óþbær

    it bore away the horses,

      Exon. 106 a; Th. 404, 20; Rä. 23, 10.
Etymology
[O. Sax. hros; n : O. Frs. hars, hers, hors, ros; n : Icel. hross; m : O. H. Ger. hros; n : Ger. ross.]
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v. cræte-hors.
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