haren.
/hɛː/, U.S. /hɛ(ə)r/ 1.
a. A rodent quadruped of the genus Lepus, having long ears and hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip.The common hare of Great Britain and Europe ( L. timidus), is a timid, watchful, and very swift animal. ‘Its eyes are so situated, that the animal can see nearly all around it’ (Carpenter); hence, probably, the popular saying that it sleeps with its eyes open (Topsell): cf. hare-eyed adj., hare's eye n., hare-sleep n. at Compounds 1b. A less common species or subspecies is the Alpine or varying hare ( L. variabilis). In North America there are several species or subspecies, of which L. Americanus comes closest to the common European hare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare)
harea700
wimountc1280
wood-catc1280
babbart?a1300
ballart?a1300
bigge?a1300
goibert?a1300
grasshopper?a1300
lightfoot?a1300
long-ear?a1300
make-fare?a1300
pintail?a1300
pollart?a1300
purblind?a1300
roulekere?a1300
scot?a1300
scotewine?a1300
side-looker?a1300
sitter?a1300
westlooker?a1300
wort-cropper?a1300
break-forwardc1300
broom-catc1300
swikebertc1300
cawel-herta1325
deuberta1325
deudinga1325
fern-sittera1325
fitelfoota1325
foldsittera1325
furze cata1325
scutardea1325
skikarta1325
stobherta1325
straw deera1325
turpina1325
skulker1387
chavarta1400
soillarta1400
waldeneiea1400
scutc1440
coward1486
wata1500
bawtiec1536
puss1575
watkin1585
malkin1706
pussy1715
bawd1785
lion1825
dew-hopper-
a700 Epinal Gloss. 608 Lepus, leporis, hara [Erf. Gloss. hæra].
1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1086 (Earle) 222 He sætte be þam haren þæt hi mosten freo faran.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 383 Ich mai iseon so wel so on hare.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 210 About þei gan him chace, and hunted him als hayre.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xi. 6 An haar [a1425 L.V. hare] forsothe [is vnclene], for and he chewith kude.
1436 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 186 Skynnes of otere, squerel, and Irysh are.
1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj A Trippe of haaris.
1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 15 I sawe the Hurchone and the Haire, quha fed among the flowers faire.
1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (new ed.) 23 As much out of order, as if..an Hare had crossed his way.
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 8 The Hare the first Year a Leveret, 2 a Hare, 3 a great Hare.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 83 The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §236 The Alpine or varying Hare (so named from its usual residence, and from the changes of colour which it undergoes), inhabits the northern parts of Scotland, the mountainous parts of Ireland, and has been occasionally seen in the mountains of Cumberland.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 7 Aug. 4/2 The white hare has risen in value during the last two seasons.
b. The male or buck hare is sometimes called Jack hare. During March (the breeding season) hares are wilder than at other times; hence the proverbial saying as mad as a March hare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > male
buck1736
Jack hare1736
1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xv As mad not as marche hare, but as a madde dogge.
1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 121 Oberon..grewe as mad as any Hare, When he had sought each place with care, And found his Queene was missing.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 221 The Males are usually call'd Jack Hares.
1783 W. Cowper Epit. on Hare 8 Old Tiny..Who, nursed with tender care,..Was still a wild Jack hare.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 15 For what is Hamlet, but a hare in March?
1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland vi. 90 In that direction..lives a Hatter: and in that direction..lives a March Hare..they're both mad.
2. Phrases and Proverbs. to hold with the hare and run (also hunt) with the hounds: = to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds at run v. Phrases 4c. first catch your hare (i.e. as the first step to cooking him): a direction jestingly ascribed to Mrs. Glasse's Cookery Book, but of much more recent origin. †to hunt for or catch a hare with a tabor; †to take hares with foxes, †to seek a hare in a hen's nest, also to set the tortoise to catch the hare: to seek to do something almost impossible. †to kiss the hare's foot: to be late. †to have two hares afoot or to run after two hares: to undertake too many things. to get the hare's foot to lick: to obtain very little. to make a hare of: to make ridiculous. †to set the hare's head (foot, hare-pie) against the goose-giblet: to let one thing serve as a set-off to another. here or there the hare went or goes away: here or there the matter ended. Also, expressions referring to Æsop's Fable of the Race between the Hare and the Tortoise.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible
to hunt for or catch a hare with a tabor1399
gnaw a file1484
to take hares with foxes1577
to seek a hare in a hen's nest1599
to wash a Negro (white)1611
to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616
to lick a file1647
to set the tortoise to catch the hare1803
to look for a needle in a haystack1855
to bite file1880
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > equality [phrase] > let one thing serve (as a set-off)
to set the hare's head (foot, hare-pie) against the goose-giblet1545
per contra1554
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > make ridiculous
to make (a) mock ofc1475
ridiculize?1615
turn1673
ridicule1684
to make a hare of1830
farcify1834
guy1854
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles i. 58 Men myȝtten as well haue huntyd an hare with a tabre As aske ony mendis ffor þat þei mysdede.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 263 Þou hast a crokyd tunge heldyng wyth hownd and wyth hare.
1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) f. xxxviv As we say in our englyshe prouerbe: Set the hares head against the gose gyblet. [See also 1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 52; 1607 Dekker Westw. Hoe v. iv, Dramatic Wks. 1873, and note.]
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ix. sig. Cv And yet shall we catche a hare with a taber, As soone as catche ought of them.
1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. B.iv Holde with the hare and run with the hounde, run thare: As wyght as the hounde, and as wyse as the hare.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 22/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I But in deede it is harde to take Hares with Foxes.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3v Hee is gone to seeke a Hayre in a Hennes nest..which is as sildome seene as a blacke Swan.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. xlv. 914 And here went the hare away.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 137 You are the Hare of whom the Prouerb goes Whose valour plucks dead Lyons by the beard. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. ii. 51 We had need Make haste away, vnlesse we meane to speed With those that kisse the Hares foot.
1633 Match at Mid-night v. sig. I2v As I haue beene Bawd to the flesh, you haue beene Bawd to your money; so set the Hare Pye against the Goose giblets.
1659 T. Burton Diary 9 Mar. (1828) IV. 108 Keep to your debate. You have two hares a-foot. You will lose both.
a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1704) ii. xxiii. 151 An ill Hare is said to make a good Dog.
1690 Turn-Coat of Times iv, in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 515 I can hold with the Hare, and run with The Hound: Which no body can deny.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iv. iii. 509 It would appear to be setting the tortoise to catch the hare.
1818 W. Scott Let. 7 Feb. (1933) V. 77 The poor clergyman (got) nothing whatever, or, as we say, the hare's foot to lick.
1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 111 What a hare Mat mad iv 'im..and did not lave him a leg to stand upon.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Rose & Ring xiv ‘A soldier, Prince, must needs obey his orders: mine are..to seize wherever I should light upon him—’ ‘First catch your hare!..’ exclaimed his Royal Highness.
1858 Times 25 Aug. 6/2 Bitter experience has taught us not to cook our hare before we have caught it.
1896 Daily News 20 July 8/2 The familiar words, ‘First catch your hare’, were never to be found in Mrs. Glasse's famous volume. What she really said was, ‘Take your hare when it is cased’.
1938 J. Cary Castle Corner x. 562 That fella thought he'd made a hare of me, but I knew one trick better.
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a. figurative. Applied to a person, in various allusive senses.
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c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 252 in Pol. Poems (Camden) 334 Nu ben theih liouns in halle, and hares in the feld.
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vi. 7 At the very first charge..this hare in a Helmet fled out of the Field.
1730 J. Swift Libel on Doctor D——ny 4 Thus Gay, the Hare with many Friends, Twice sev'n long Years the Court attends.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 76 The..distant blaze of those dull banquets, made The nightly wirer of their innocent hare Falter before he took it.
b. The person who lays the ‘scent’ (usually paper torn into fragments) which the ‘hounds’ follow in the sport of hare and hounds (see hare and hounds n. at Compounds 1b).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > hare and hounds > participant
whipper-in1855
hound1857
hare1883
paper-chaser1884
harrier1891
1883 W. H. Rideing in Harper's Mag. July 178/2 A flushed little ‘hare’ bounds past us, distributing the paper ‘scent’ in his course, and followed a quarter of an hour afterward by the panting and baffled ‘hounds’.
4. One of the southern constellations, Lepus.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Lepus
hare1556
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 268 Vnder the feete of Orion, is there a constellation of 12 starres, named the Hare.
a1701 T. Creech tr. Manilius 5 Bks. v. ix. 61 The Hare appears, whose active Rays supply A nimble force.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 444/2 Lepus (the Hare), one of the old constellations, said by Hyginus to be in the act of running from Orion's dog.
5. = sea-hare n. a molluscous animal, Aplysia depilans.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Tectibranchiata > order Inferobranchiata > member of family Aplysidae
sea-hare1593
hare1601
sea-hare-fish1607
pissabed1759
sea-cat1759
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 71 It represseth the poison of the venomous fish called the sea-Hare.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 148 Foot-lesse, and finn-lesse (as the bane-full Hare, And heat-full Oyster).
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §917 The Aplysia, commonly termed Sea-Hare..from the peculiar form of the superior pair of tentacula, which are flattened and hollowed like the ears of a quadruped.
Compounds
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a. General attributive.
(a) attributive.
hare-back n.
hare-catcher n.
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1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 356 The vulture leporarius, or hare-catcher.
hare-chase n.
hare-drive n.
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1884 T. Speedy Sport in Highlands xiii. 216 A large bag of ptarmigan is not usually obtained in connection with a hare-drive.
hare-flesh n.
hare-hunter n.
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1718 A. Pope Corr. 8 Oct. (1956) I. 515 I..then ride out a hunting... How can a..Harehunter hope for a Minute's memory?
hare-park n.
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1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 100 The largest Hare-Parks that ever I heard of, and the best furnished..,are in Ireland.
hare-pie n.
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1633Hare-pie [see sense 2].
1665 S. Pepys Diary 25 Jan. (1972) VI. 21 Dined..upon a Hare-py.
1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. ii. 39 Audit and hare-pie had not much temptation for us that morning.
hare-skin n.
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1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 246 A Cap, which I had made of a Hare-skin.
1832 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 36 Hare-skins..would accumulate into the purchase money of a coat.
hare-sleep n.
hare-soup n.
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1804 W. Scott Let. 21 Aug. (1932) I. 227 Hare soup may be forthcoming in due season.
(b) Objective or objective genitive.
hare-hunting n. and adj.
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1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. Argt. Description of the Hare-hunting in all its Parts.
1864 S. Northcote Lect. & Ess. (1887) iii. 89 A hare-hunting farmer.
hare-shooting n. and adj.
(c) Similative.
hare-like adj.
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a1592 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 483 The hare-like coward runs his ways.
hare-mad adj.
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a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 38 Here's a day of toyle well past o're, Able to make a Citizen Hare mad.
b. Also hare-brain n., hare-foot n., etc.† hare-hound n. Obsolete a dog for hunting hares. † hare-shaw n. Obsolete = harelip n.† hare-sleep n. Obsolete a very light sleep.† hare's-tooth n. Obsolete (see quot.).
hare and hounds n. literal and figurative = paperchase n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > hare and hounds
hunt the foxa1600
hunt the hare1762
fox and hounds1821
hare and hounds1839
fox-chase1856
paperchase1856
paper hunt1871
1839 T. Hood Ode to Mr. Malthus in Hood's Own 266 You're quite enough to play at hare and hounds.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vii. 171 Please, sir, we've been out Big-side Hare-and-hounds, and lost our way.
1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 11 Coleridge is apt to take leave of the data of criticism, and arouse the suspicion that he has been diverted into a metaphysical hare-and-hounds.
1938 E. Partridge World of Words ix. 261 Well worth the hare-and-hound chase through the dictionary.
1963 Daily Tel. 5 Feb. 20/6 Throughout his speech he was constantly heckled and interrupted, but the scene cannot be described as ‘Hare and hounds’.
hare-coursing n. see coursing n.2 1a.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > hares
hare-coursing1840
gate-netting1892
1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports v. i. 562 The credit of the organisation of the sport of hare coursing..[is] without all doubt the undisputed property of the English.
1972 Times 5 Feb. 1/2 The House of Commons ended its Friday sitting in uproar and confusion when the Hare Coursing (Abolition) Bill was talked out.
hare-eyed adj. having eyes that look all round, or that are never closed: see sense 1, note.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > lagophthalmia
hare-eyed1611
lagophthalmic1888
1611 Tarlton's Jests (1866) 202 To which he said little, but with a squint eye, as custome had made him hare-eyed, hee looked for a jest to make them merry.
1612 G. Chapman Epicede sig. D Frantick Distemper; & Hare-eyd vnrest.
hare-hearted adj. timid.
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1614 S. Rowlands Fooles Bolt soone Shott 33 Two right Hare-harted coward Fooles.
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1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 42 With..two Harehounds, or Greyhounds.
hare-kangaroo n. a small kangaroo of the genus Lagorchestes, so called from its resemblance to a hare in size and colour.
hare-pocket n. a pocket in a shooting-coat, made of a size to hold a hare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > pocket
salt-box1819
slip1819
poacher's pocket1908
book pocket1922
hare-pocket1925
1925 G. Burrard Big Game Hunting 281 Two ‘hare’ or ‘poacher’ pockets will be found most useful on occasions.
1950 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 44 60 The map should be made..to fit into the forester's hare pocket.
hare's eye n. = lagophthalmia: see quot.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > lagophthalmia
lagophthalmus1657
hare's eye1728
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Eye Hares-Eye, Oculus Leprinus,..a Disease arising from a Contraction of the upper Eye-lid which prevents its being able to cover its Part of the Eye. Whence the Patient is obliged to sleep with the Eye half open after the Manner of Hares.
hare's fur n. Ceramics a brown or black glaze streaked with silvery white or yellow used on some Chinese pottery.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > glaze > for ceramics or pottery > types of
steel lustre1829
moonlight lustre1837
stone-oil1838
silver lustre1845
porcelain enamel1852
marzacotto1873
overglaze1880
under-glaze1882
coperta1885
tiger's-eye1893
tin-glaze1897
hare's fur1899
lead-glaze1899
tin-enamel1900
rouge flambé1902
Sunderland lustre1903
transmutation glaze1904
Mohammedan blue1905
peach bloom1937
sang-de-bœuf1957
lead-lustre-
1899 S. W. Bushell Oriental Ceramic Art (new ed.) xxvii. 724 The most highly appreciated ware at the tea-testing parties..was the dark~colored pottery of the province of Fuchien..the tea~bowls of which were known to Chinese virtuosos as ‘hare's-fur bowls’.
1934 Burlington Mag. May 214/1 Temmoku tea bowls with the ‘hare's fur’ glaze... They have a blackish stone-ware body, and a thick, lustrous black glaze streaked with hair lines of brown and silver.
1959 G. Savage Antique Collector's Handbk. 52 The black glazed wares of Honan are of great interest, and tea-bowls with a variegated dark brown glaze, known as ‘hare's fur’, came from Chien-an in Fukien Province.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hare lip
harelip1567
hare-shaw1597
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 185 The Hare-shaw is a defectuositie of nature which happeneth..in the Lip, Eare or Nose..sometimes found cloven or they come in the world.
hare-sighted adj. short-sighted.
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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxv. sig. Nv 'Tis indiscretion that is Hare sighted.
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hare-sleep, with Eies a'most open.
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 265 Whatsoeuer beast be borne in your flocke, hauing that marke vpon them, which is commonly called hares-tooth, neuer suffer them to sucke their dam.
C2. In names of plants. Also harebell n., etc.† hare-bottle n. Obsolete Knapweed.† hare's-ballocks n. Obsolete popular name for species of Orchis.
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1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husbandry (1668) ii. viii. 40 The weeds which are most incident there-unto, are Twitch..besides Thistles, Harebottles.
hare-nut n. dialect the Earth- or Pig-nut.
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1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 423 Harenut, [an] earthnut.
hare-parsley n. Wild Chervil, Anthriscus sylvestris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > cow-parsley
casshe1548
mock chervil1548
wild cicely1597
pig's parsleya1697
cow-weed1744
wild chervil1783
cow parsley1785
cow chervil1804
beaked parsley1841
Queen Anne's lace1873
hare-parsley1874
1874 Young Fancier's Guide 4 July (Britten & H.) There is a plant known as hare parsley, of which rabbits are extremely fond.
1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Hare Parsley, in Aubrey's Wilts..This [Anthriscus sylvestris] is no doubt the plant intended.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids
satyrionOE
bollockwort?a1300
sanicle14..
bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 128v Whyt Satyrion..or in other more vnmanerly speche, hares ballockes.
hare's-bane n. Aconitum Lagoctonum.
hare's-beard n. the Great Mullein.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 630 Mullein is called..of some Hares bearde.
hare's colewort n. see hare's thistle n.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 232 Sowthistle is called..of some Brassica leporina, or Hares Colewoort.
hare's-eye n. the Red Campion, Lychnis diurna.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Hares eie is Lychnis syluestris.
hare's house n. see hare's thistle n.
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c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 226 Se hara..mid þysse wyrte hyne sylfne gelacnað, for þy heo ys lactuca leporina genemned.]
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 266 An herbe called Lactuca Leporina..that is, hares Lettuce, hares house, hares pallace.
hare's lettuce n. see hare's thistle n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > sow thistle
thowthistlea700
sow-thistlea1250
swine thistlea1350
milk thistlec1450
Saint Mary's seeda1500
Sonchus1558
hare's lettuce1597
smooth thistle1633
milkweed1736
tare-thistle1753
cow-thistle1832
puha1843
rauriki1848
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 229 The stalk of hares lettuce or smooth Sowthistle, is oftentimes a cubite high.
hare's-meat n. Wood sorrel.
hare's palace n. see hare's thistle n.
ΚΠ
1526 Grete Herball cccli. sig. Tv/2 Palacium leporis, hares palays, is an herbe lyke Spurge, but it hath longer and ryper leues..It is called hares palays. For yf the hare come vnder it, he is sure that no beest can touche hym.
hare's-tail n. (also hare's-tail grass) a species of grass, Lagurus ovatus.
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1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. §41. 10 Lagurus ovatus, hare's-tail-grass.
hare's-tail rush n. Single-headed Cotton-grass, Eriophorum vaginatum.
hare's thistle n. (also hare-thistle) name for the Sow-thistle, Sonchusoleraceus.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 232 Apuleius calleth it [Sowthistle] Lactuca Leporina, or Hares Thistle.
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† harev.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To harry; to worry; to harass.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]
tawc893
ermec897
swencheOE
besetOE
bestandc1000
teenOE
baitc1175
grieve?c1225
war?c1225
noyc1300
pursuec1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
tribula1325
worka1325
to hold wakenc1330
chase1340
twistc1374
wrap1380
cumbera1400
harrya1400
vexc1410
encumber1413
inquiet1413
molest?a1425
course1466
persecutec1475
trouble1489
sturt1513
hare1523
hag1525
hale1530
exercise1531
to grate on or upon1532
to hold or keep waking1533
infest1533
scourge1540
molestate1543
pinch1548
trounce1551
to shake upa1556
tire1558
moila1560
pester1566
importune1578
hunt1583
moider1587
bebait1589
commacerate1596
bepester1600
ferret1600
harsell1603
hurry1611
gall1614
betoil1622
weary1633
tribulatea1637
harass1656
dun1659
overharry1665
worry1671
haul1678
to plague the life out of1746
badger1782
hatchel1800
worry1811
bedevil1823
devil1823
victimize1830
frab1848
mither1848
to pester the life out of1848
haik1855
beplague1870
chevy1872
obsede1876
to get on ——1880
to load up with1880
tail-twist1898
hassle1901
heckle1920
snooter1923
hassle1945
to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946
to bust (a person's) chops1953
noodge1960
monster1967
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxv. 271 The other parte of the same company..sayd, howe they wolde se the pope and cardynalles..or els to hare and to pyll the countre.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxv. 272 So thus they haryed the pope, the cardynals, and the marchauntes about Auygnon.]
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlii The Princes of Burgoyne, had not been so plucked, hared, and spoyled, of her faire tounes and Castles as she was.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 110 Let the Hounds kill the Fox themselves, and worry and hare him as much as they please.
2. To frighten, to scare.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (transitive)]
gastOE
eisieOE
fearc1000
scarec1175
fray14..
doubtc1315
fright1423
flightc1571
to curdle the blood1579
effray1588
hare1656
pavefy1656
frighten1666
sob1671
haze1677
funk1789
gliff1823
frecken1847
to scare a person silly1942
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xxxi. 159 Who..so staggered and hared him, that he could not make one word of answer.
1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 47 To Hair Them out of their Wits with Croking.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §67 To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials III. xiii. 122 Being but simple before, he was now haired out of his wits indeed.
1732 J. Gay Distress'd Wife ii, in Wks. (1772) 285 Your ladyship hares one so.
1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 28 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1669 Little minds are in a hurry,..they run, they hare, they puzzle, confound, and perplex, themselves.
Derivatives
hared adj.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > [adjective]
affrightedOE
ofdreadOE
afearedOE
offearedlOE
radc1175
frightya1325
fearedc1330
fearfulc1374
afraidc1380
frayeda1400
wrotha1400
afearc1410
ghastful1422
fleyedc1425
afleyeda1500
a flighta1535
effrayed1553
flight-given?1611
hareda1618
frighted1647
affrightened1649
frighteneda1721
scared1725
intimidated1727
frightsome1827
scary1827
funked1831
fearing1837
funked out1859
fearsome1863
chickenshit1940
a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 897 While He yet spake, there came Another in, Hared and hot.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hared, Hurried.
ˈharing adj.
Π
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 23 The multitude are thereby..rendered a hairing, staring, wrathful rabble.
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harev.2
/hɛː/, U.S. /hɛ(ə)r/ intransitive. Also with it.† a. To double like a hare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move with sudden turn > move with sudden turns
redoublec1443
double1594
weave1596
hare1893
jinkle1893
to bob and weave1928
1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 272/2 To hare it, to retrace one's steps; to double back.
b. To run or move with great speed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > run > run fast or at full speed
to pull it1792
to run (also be off) like a redshank1809
sky1824
tattera1825
peel1860
pelter1906
hare1908
1908 D. Coke House Prefect xi. 141 He had heard..the order, ‘Hare’! Now ‘Hare’! is Seftonian for ‘Run—and run jolly quick’!
a1914 J. E. Raphael Mod. Rugby Football (1918) 262 Receiving the ball well inside his own half-way, Palmer commenced to ‘hare’ for the touch-line.
1917 P. Gibbs Battles of Somme 173 There were other trenches ahead, and the men ‘hared’ off to these.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiv. 178 I..hared it rapidly to the spot.
1957 Listener 19 Dec. 1046/1 The producer..can't go haring about collecting the items.
1958 Woman 11 Jan. 47/1 I hared up to London, left my book with the publishers and went to my flat.
1963 Times 13 June 5/1 Boulter took over by the backstraight and went haring away past 660 yards in 1 min. 21.1 sec.
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