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a hair
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  • Hér

    pilus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 117, 40.
a human hair, hair of a person's head
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  • Hér

    (capillus)

    of heófde iówrum ne bid forloren,
      Lk. R. L. 21, 18.

  • Ꝥ fýr heora ne æthrán, ne furþum án hǽr heora heáfdes,

      Hml. S. 30, 454.

  • Ne mæhtú énne hér

    (unum capillum)

    húit geuirce,
      Mt. L. 5, 36.

  • Him Þá hǽr (his hǽr, v. l.) áfeóllon

    fills cadentibus,

      Gr. D. 157, 8.

  • Héras

    (capilli)

    heáfdes,
      Mt. L. 10, 30.

  • Héro (hér,

      R. ), Lk. L. 12, 7.

  • Heora wæs má þonne hǽra on mínum heáfde,

      Ps. Th. 39, 14.

  • Ne efesiad eów ne eówre hǽr ne sciron (

    non facietis calvitium),

      Deut. 14,
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hair of an animal
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  • Of nǽrum (of hérum ðǽra camella, Mt. L. 3, 4)

    de pilis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 71. 61.
  • Wullan fliásum, hérum. Txts. 151, 4.

  • Hǽrum,

      Rä. 36, 4.
a number of hairs together
a lock. v. hǽr-locc
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  • Hǽra

    cincinnarum.

      Au. Ox. 1199.
a fringe
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  • Ðá hér

    fimbrias,

      Mt. L. 23, 5.
with collective force,
hair
of persons
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  • Hǽr

    cesaries, pilos,

    Wülck
      Gl. 290, 11.

  • Unbeganum locca fexe and fúliendum hǽre

    inculta criniculorum cesarie et squalente capillatura,

      An. Ox. 1214.
of animals
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  • Sume bróhton gáte hǽr . . . þæt gate hǽr getácnode þá stíþan dǽdbóte,

      Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 3, 31-6,
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v. heáfod-hǽr.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hǽr.” 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/51545.

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