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haras
(ˈhærəs, ‖ arɑ)
Now treated as Fr. Forms: 4 harace, 4, 9 harras, 5 hareys, harrasse, (haryage), 6 harres, harreise, harrage, 7 harace, harrase, 4– haras.
[a. OF. haraz (12th c.), later haras ‘horses and mares kept only for breed’ (Cotgr.), in med.L. haracium, of uncertain origin; Diez suggests relationship to Arabic faras horse.]
An enclosure or establishment in which horses and mares are kept for breeding; hence, † a stud, breed, or race of horses (obs.).
[1292Britton iii. vii. §5 As vaches et a genices et as harascz des jumentz et des poleyns en boys.] a1300Land Cokaygne 35 in E.E.P. (1862) 157 Nother harace, nother stode. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 5710 As wicked coltes out of haras. c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 840 This craft in gentyl haras is to charge. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxii. 55 (Jam.) Ane haryage..he had gud, That had swlyk twelf in til his stud. c1450Cov. Myst. (1841) 147 Ȝondyr is an hous of haras that stant be the wey. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. (1549) 127 Who setteth by a ragged, a restie or ill fauoured colte, because that the harreise, wherof that kinde is comen..wanne the price of rennyng at the game of Olympus? 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 306 A mare of a good harrage. 1602― Cornwall 24 a, Nature denying a great harace. 1792A. Young Trav. France 54 Supporting a wretched haras (stud). 1887Times 24 Dec. 10/1 The foreign haras which were established..in various countries on the Continent created a most serious drain upon our resources in this country. Ibid. 10/2 The establishment of a Government haras, or breeding station. |