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▪ I. † vere, n. Obs.
Forms: α. 4–5 veir, 5 veyr, Sc. weyr, 6 Sc. weir. β. 4 veer(e, 5 weere, 6 vear. γ. 4–6 vere, 5 Sc. were. See also ver n.1
[a. OF. ver masc. or vere fem.:—L. vēr ver n.1]
The season of spring; spring-time.
αc1325Prose Psalter lxxiii. 18 Þou madest alle þe cuntres of þerþe; somer and veir, þou formedest þo þynges. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 72 Veir bigynnes whenne þe sonne entres yn to þe toknynge of þe sheepe. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1697 Gud Wallace..Erest in weyr to Sanct Jhonstoun couth fair. 1513Douglas æneid iii. i. 17 Scant begunnin was the fresch weir, Quhen that Anchises..Bad ws mak sail. Ibid. x. Prol. 11 Fresche veir to burgioun herbis and sweit flouris.
βc1374Chaucer Troylus i. 157 Þe tyme Of Aperil, when clothed is þe mede, With newe grene, of lusty veer the prime. 1388Wyclif Ecclus. l. 8 As a flour of rosis in the daies of veer. 1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 243 The tyme of weere is hote and moisti. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 244 b/2 Some say that the transfyguracion was made in veer. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus H iv, In vear, the husbandmen lop their trees, to the intent that afterward they may growe the better.
γ1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ix. (Skeat) l. 133 The same yere maketh springes and jolite in Vere..to renovel with peinted coloures. c1400Sowdone Bab. 965 In the prymsauns of grene vere. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. ii. xii. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 138 And then be Wynter and Vere nygh over-gon To the Est. 1509Payne Evyll Marr. (Percy) 25 In tyme of vere when lovers lusty be. a1529Skelton On Time Wks. 1843 I. 138 The rotys take theyr sap in tyme of vere. 1563Jack Juggler (E.E.D.S.) 36, I never use to run away in winter or in vere.
Hence † vere-time, spring-time. Obs.
1382Wyclif Gen. xxxv. 16 He goon out thens, com in veer tyme to the loond that ledith to Effratam. 1388― Ps. lxxiii. 17 Thou madist alle the endis of erthe; somer and veer tyme, thou fourmedist tho. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 48 b/1 He wente thens and cam in veer tyme unto the londe that goth to effratam.
▪ II. † vere, v. Obs.—1
[Of obscure origin.]
trans. To raise up; to uplift.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 254 That Iuel þenne in gemmyz gente, Vered vp her vyse with yȝen graye.
▪ III. vere
ME. var. fere n., fire n.; obs. f. very a.; obs. Sc. var. war n.; obs. f. wear v.; Sc. f. were (doubt) Obs. |