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grey-haired with age, old
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  • Wæs fród cyning, hár hilderinc, on hreón móde,

      B. 1307: By. 169: Chr. 937; P. 108, 20.

  • Ic (

    a plough) geonge swá mé wísað hár holtes feónd (the grey-haired ploughman ?, the enemy of the holt, because the wood has to be cleared away from the land which is to be brought under cultivation ),

      Rä. 22, 3.

  • Gamele ne móston háre heaðorincas hilde onþeón, Exod. 241. ¶ used substantively,

    a grey-haired person

    :-- Hí háres hyrste Higeláce bǽron,
      B. 2988.

  • Tunge þínre hárra

    lingua canum (as if canorum?) tuorum,

      Ps. L. 67, 24.
grey,
of an animal's coat
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  • Wulf, hár hǽðstapa,

      Vy. 13.
of bright metal
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  • Háre byrnan (cf. On him (

    Beowulf

    ) byrne (ísernbyrne, 671) scán,
      B. 405.), Vald. 2, 17 : B. 2153.
of a bright star :
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  • Hárwengnes canities, se hára steorra caniss (as ifconnected with canus ?) vel canicula, stella quae Sirius vocatur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 128 25.
of frost, hoar:
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  • Hwílum hára scóc forst of feax[e],

      Rä. 88, 7.
of stone (cf. ræg-hár
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  • Ofer hárne stán,

      B. 1415 : An. 843.
a. the word occurs often as epithet of stones and trees used as boundary-marks
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  • Tó ðám háran stáne; of ðám stáne,

      C. D. iii. 389, 10.
  • Of ðǽre brádan ác ðæt hít cymð tó ðǽre wóhgan apeldran, ðanon norðrihte ðæt hit cymeð tó ðǽre háran apeldran, 33.
  • An háran stán, ii. 29, 6.
  • Of ðan háran stáne on ðone háran wíðig; of ðan háran wíþie, iii. 313, 27.
fig. of things,
hoary, of great age
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  • Hárne middengeard

    canescentem mundum,

      Mt. p. 1, 5.
Etymology
[O. Sax., O. H. Ger. hér: Ger. hehr.]
Similar entries
v. feax-hár, healf-hár, ræg-hár, un-hár.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hár.” 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/51774.

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