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▪ I. † bere, n. Obs.
Also 3 beare, 4 ber, 5 beyr, 6 (Sc.) beir.
[ME. beare, bere, apparently short for ibere ‘clamour, outcry’; the earlier text of Layamon has always ibere, the latter only beare. In form, ibere is:—OE. ᵹebǽre ‘bearing, behaviour, gesture,’ = OS. gibâri, MDu. gebaar, MHG. gebære, in same sense, f. beran to bear. The history of the change of meaning is not evident; but it appears also in OFris. bæ̂re ‘strepitus, clamour’ (Mätzner), where also the prefix ge- has been dropped; the MDu. gebaar also meant ‘noise, strepitus,’ as well as ‘behaviour.’ In later times the word is only Sc., whence the spelling beir: the mod.Eng. would have been normally bear.]
Clamour, outcry, shouting, roaring; the noise of voices of men or animals.
[a800O.E. Chron. an. 755 On ðæs wifes ᵹebærum [Laud MS. ᵹe bæron] onfundon ðæs cyninges ðegnas ða unstilnesse. ]c1205Lay. 25828 Wanliche iberen [1250 reuliche beares]. Ibid. 28162 Me mihte iheren Brutten iberen [Bruttune beare]. c1330Florice & Bl. 457 Asked what here were That hi makede so loude bere. c1400Rowland & Ot. 183 Ȝelde thi suerde to mee, & late be alle this bere. 1460Towneley Myst. 249 Abyde withe alle thi boste and beyr. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 38 Foulis..ande..beystis..maid grite beir.
▪ II. † bere, v. Obs.
Also 3 ibere.
[ME. beren, short for iberen (see 1st quot.):—OE. ᵹebǽran to bear oneself, behave = OS. gibârjan, OHG. *gabarjan, MHG. gebâren, gebæren, f. bere n., which see for change of sense.]
intr. To cry, roar. Hence ˈberand ppl. a.
c1225Juliana 53 He..iberde [v.r. berde] as þe ful wiht. a1300E.E. Psalter xxxii[i]. 3 Well singes to him in berand steven. c1400Leg. Rood (1871) 140 Beerynge as a beore⁓whelp. c1470Henry Wallace vii. 457 The peple beryt lyk wyld bestis. a1550Christis Kirke Gr. xxii, Quhyn thay had berit lyk baitit bullis.
▪ III. bere
obs. f. bear, beer, bier, birr, boar. |