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Add: I. autumn, the third ofthe four seasons. [It began on August 7 and November 6 was its last day
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  • Þæs (after Lammas day) hærfest cymð ymb seofon niht bútan ánre wonan . . . Syþþan (after All Saints' day) wintres dæg on syx nihtum genimð hærfest mid herige

    six days after Lammas autumn comes . . . six days after All . Saints' day winter time captures autumn,

    Men. 140-204] :-- Tó hærfestes emnihte, Chr. 1048; P. 174, 21.

  • On hærfeste gefór se here on Miercna lond, 877 ; P. 74,

      21,
    ,

  • Wé weorðiaí heáhengles tiid on hærfeste,

      Michaheles, Men. 177.

  • Ðis wæs on hærfest,

      Chr. 918 ; P. 100, 2.
  • Hé saet on þám biscopríce ealne þone sumor and þone hærfest, 1048 ; P. 172, 14.

  • Herfest,

      1006; P. 136, 16. I a. as
    s

  • Swá nú lencten and hærfest, on lencten hit gréwð, and on hærfest hit fealwað,

      Bt. 21 ; F. 74, 22.

  • Se wæstmbǽra hærfest bryngþ rípa bléda,

      39, 13 ; F. 234, 15.

  • Hærfest cymð, wlitig wæstmum hladen,

      Men. 140.

  • Me mæcg on hærfeste rípan, in Agusto and Septembri and Octobri. . . fela tilða hám gæderian . . . ǽr tó túne tó slid winter cume,

      Angl. ix. 261, 14-20.

  • II. the part of Autumn in which the fruits of the earth are gathered in, harvest, v. hærfestlic; II. , hærfest-mónaþ, hærfest-tíd ; II :-- Agusius síhð tó mannum mid genihtsumum hærfeste and

    autumnus

    cymð tó mancynne binnan seofon nihta fyrste,
      Angl. viii. 311, 18.

  • On hærfeste wícode se cyng on neáweste þáre byrig, þá hwíle þe hié hira corn gerypon,

      Chr. 896; P. 89, 8.

  • Mon eorðan wæstmas on hærfeste hám gelǽdeð . . . on rypes tíman, Ph. 244. II a. rendered in late Latin versions by Augustus (cf. Augustus messis, messis tempus, Migne) :-- On hærfeste (in Augusta), ðá fullan wican ǽr Sc̃a Marian mæssan (

    Sept.

    8),
      Ll. Th. i. 92, 6.

  • Berebryttan gebyreð corngebrot on hærfæste (in Augusta), 440, 2. iii dagas ǽlcre wucan on hærfest (in Augusta), 432, 32 : 434, 7. ¶ in a late MS. it is used as the name of the month, August :-- On Iuli mónðe. . . On hærfest. . . On Setembre, Angl.

    . . .
      185, 10.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hærfest.” 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/51549.

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