HORS
- noun [ neuter ]
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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.
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Hors hófum wlanc, Runic pm. Kmbl. 343,
- 5; Rún. 19.
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Ne beó gé ná swylce hors
nolite fteri sicut equus,
- Ps. Th. 31, 10.
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Ðá wæs Hróðgáre hors gebæted wicg wundenfeax
then for Hrothgar was a horse bitted, a steed with plaited mane,
- Beo. Th. 2803; B. 1399.
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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.
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Nis horses flǽsc forboden
caro equina non est prohibita,
- L. Ecg. C. 38; Th. ii. 162, 16.
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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.
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Gelícnes horses and monnes. Exon. l09 b; Th. 418,
- 26; Rä. 37, 11.
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Ðí byþ swíðe dysig se ðe getrúwaþ on his horses swiftnesse
falsus equus ad salutem,
- Ps. Th. 32, 15.
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Cwæþ mid hospe horse mete is bere
said contemptuously 'Barley is food far a horse,'
- Homl. Skt. 3, 216.
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Man his hors under him ofsceát
his horse was shot under him,
- Ors. 5, 2; Bos. 101, 42.
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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.
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Horsa hnǽgung
neighing of horses,
- Ælfc. Gl. 1; Som. 2, 38.
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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.
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Ða hors óþbær
it bore away the horses,
- Exon. 106 a; Th. 404, 20; Rä. 23, 10.
Bosworth, Joseph. “HORS.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/19547.
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