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hýr-mann

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  • A hireling, mercenary :-- Iób cwæð : ' Mannes líf is campdóm ofer eorðan, and swá swá médgildan dagas swá sind his dagas (

    sicut dies mercenarii, dies ejus.

    Job
      7, 1)'. . . Se
    hýrman his edleánes anbidað, Hml. Th. ii. 454, 31. 'Ǽnne man ic ofslóh of þínre híwrǽdene' . . . Wæs án hýrman tó wuda áfaren; sé læg gewundod, Hml. S. 31, 783.
  • Symle sceal gód scýrman his hýrmen scyrpan mid manunge, and him eác leánian be ðám ðe hý earnian,

      Angl. ix. 260, 22.
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[v. N. E. D. hireman.]
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