Hǽre

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hǽre

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hǽre
f. Hair-cloth, sack-cloth; cilicium, saccus :-- Gefyrn hí dydun dǽdbóte on hǽran and on axan olim in cilicio et cinere pænitentiam egissent, Mt. Kmbl. 11, 21. Mid hǽran gescrýdd clad in sackcloth, Homl. Th. ii. 312, 27 : Ps. Spl. 34, 15. Se cyning dyde hǽran tó his líce the king put sackcloth next to his skin, Homl. Th. i. 568, 13. Ðú slite hǽran míne conscidisti saccum meum, Ps. Spl, 29, 13. [Laym. ane ladliche here : A. R. here, heare, 'Iudit werede heare :' Prompt. Parv. hayre cilicium. Cilicium, velamen factum de pilis caprarum a heere. An haire cilicium : Icel. hæra; f : O. H. Ger. hárra, hara; f. cilicium, saccus.] hære
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