Hár
Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon de Bosworth & Toller - hár
Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :
- hár
- Add: I. 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 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. II. grey, (1) of an animal's coat :-- Wulf, hár hǽðstapa, Vy. 13. (2) of bright metal :-- Háre byrnan (cf. On him (Beowulf) byrne (ísernbyrne, 671) scán, B. 405.), Vald. 2, 17 : B. 2153. (3) of a bright star : -- Hárwengnes canities, se hára steorra caniss (as ifconnected with canus ?) vel canicula, stella quae Sirius vocatur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 128 25. (4) of frost, hoar: -- Hwílum hára scóc forst of feax[e], Rä. 88, 7. (5) of stone (cf. ræg-hár :-- Ofer hárne stán, B. 1415 : An. 843. II a. the word occurs often as epithet of stones and trees used as boundary-marks :-- 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. III. fig. of things, hoary, of great age :-- Hárne middengeard canescentem mundum, Mt. p. 1, 5. [O. Sax., O. H. Ger. hér: Ger. hehr.]