Hǽr

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hǽr

Add: I. a hair :-- Hér pilus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 117, 40. (1) a human hair, hair of a person's head :-- Hér (capillus) of heófde iówrum ne bid forloren, Lk. R. L. 21, 18. Ꝥ fýr heora ne æthrán, ne furþum án hǽr heora heáfdes, Hml. S. 30, 454. Ne mæhtú énne hér (unum capillum) húit geuirce, Mt. L. 5, 36. Him Þá hǽr (his hǽr, ) áfeóllon fills cadentibus, Gr. D. 157, 8. Héras (capilli) heáfdes, Mt. L. 10, 30. Héro (hér, R. ), Lk. L. 12, 7. Heora wæs má þonne hǽra on mínum heáfde, Ps. Th. 39, 14. Ne efesiad eów ne eówre hǽr ne sciron (non facietis calvitium), Deut. 14, (2) a hair of an animal :-- Of nǽrum (of hérum ðǽra camella, Mt. L. 3, 4) de pilis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 71. 61. Wullan fliásum, hérum. Txts. 151, 4. Hǽrum, Rä. 36, 4. II. a number of hairs together (1) a lock. v. hǽr-locc :-- Hǽra cincinnarum. Au. Ox. 1199. (2) a fringe :-- Ðá hér fimbrias, Mt. L. 23, 5. III. with collective force, hair (1) of persons :-- Hǽr cesaries, pilos, Wülck Gl. 290, 11. Unbeganum locca fexe and fúliendum hǽre inculta criniculorum cesarie et squalente capillatura, An. Ox. 1214. (2) of animals :-- Sume bróhton gáte hǽr . . . þæt gate hǽr getácnode þá stíþan dǽdbóte, Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 3, 31-6, v. heáfod-hǽr. hær

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