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hár

(adj.)
Grammar
hár, adj.
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geseah sumne hárne stán he saw a grey stone, Blickl. Homl. 209, 32: Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 313. 26: Beo. Th. 1779; B. 887. Hárne middengeard canescentem mundum, Mt. Kmbl. p. i, 5.

héh

Similar entry: HEÁH

hel

Similar entry: hell

heó

(pronoun.)

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hír

Similar entry: HÝR

hár

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Add: grey-haired with age, old 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

hec

Similar entry: fódder-hec

hwer

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Hét feccan ǽnne ǽrene hwer, and hine ealne áfyllan mid weallendum leáde and lecgan Georium innon ðone hwer, Hml. 8. 14, 104-107: 25, 117. Hwerum caccabis Wrt. Voc. ii. 95, 62 : 19, 71. Hweras lebetes . An. Ox. 4670: Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 60. Add

hýr

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bæd ꝥ móste healdan heora æceras and him móde earnian, 216), Hml.

heá

Similar entry: HEÁH

hel

(n.)

a pretext

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a pretext Mid yfelan helan earme men beswícaþ with evil pretexts defraud poor men, L. I. P. 12; Th. ii. 320, 18. [?]

Linked entries: hell hyll

hen

Linked entry: hæn

herd

Similar entry: HEORD

hrér

(adj.)
Grammar
hrér, adj.

Rear

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Rear [provincial], not thoroughly cooked, lightly boiled [of eggs] Nim hrér henne æg take a hen's egg lightly boiled, L. M. 2, 52; Lchdm. ii. 272, 16

Linked entries: hrére hréren-brǽden

HÝR

(n.)
Grammar
HÝR, e; f.

HIREinterest

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HIRE, payment for service done or money lent, interest Ne nim ðú ná máre æt him tó hýre ðonne ðú sealdest. Ne syle ðú ðín feoh tó hýre computabuntur fructus ex tempore, quo vendidit, et quod reliquum est, reddet emptori. Pecuniam tuam non dabis ad usuram

Linked entries: hír hýre

héra

Similar entry: híra

héf

Similar entry: HÝF

hrér

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Sule hym súpan gebrǽddan hrére ǽgeran, Lch. iii. 106, 17. Add

hǽr

(n.)
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In l. 8 l. efesiað

(pronoun.)
Grammar
hé, m: heó; f: hit; n.
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hiene him tó biscepsuna nam he was godfather to him, 853; Erl. 68, 14. hire hand nam and heó sóna árás he took her hand and she at once arose, Mk. Skt. 5, 41-2.

Linked entries: hió heó hie hig