Middle English Dictionary Entry
haras n.
Entry Info
| Forms | haras n. Also harace, hares(se, harras, harres(se. |
| Etymology | OF haraz |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A place where horses are bred or kept, a stud; also, a collection of breeding horses; ~ of hors(es; in ~, at stud; (b) hous of ~, a stable.
Associated quotations
a
- (1303) Acc.Executors in Camd.n.s.1074 : De duobus jumentis quatuordecim pullanis de haras in parco.
- ?c1335(a1300) Cokaygne (Hrl 913)35 : Þer nis schepe, no swine, no gote, No non horwȝ la..Noþer harate [read: harace], noþer stode.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)5710 : Þan lopen about hem þe Lombars As wicked coltes out of haras.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)p.3 : Haraz dit homme dez poleynez..Haras seyþ man of coltys.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)637/36 : Hoc equicium: harres.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.840 : This craft in gentyl haras is to charge.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)921 : The cow with hire calfe and coltes ful faire And high hors in haras hurtelid to-gedre.
- c1450 Terms Assoc.(2) (Cmb Ll.1.18)232 : A harresse off horsez, mares, or coltez.
- a1456 Hit is no right (Add 16165)p.38 : I wole me venge on loue as doþe a breese On wylde horsse þat rennen in harras.
- a1475 in Hodgkin Proper Terms53 : A Harres of horssys.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.27 : This is..hir kynde, coltis [not] to greue, Ne to hurlle with haras, ne hors well atamed.
- c1475 in Hodgkin Proper Terms52 : A Harrys of Horse.
- a1500 Terms Assoc.(3) (Lamb 306)233 : A haras of hors.
b
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)138/83 : Ȝondyr is An hous of haras þat stant be þe wey; Amonge þe bestys herboryd may ȝe be.
2.
A multitude of rogues or knaves; ~ of harlotes.
Associated quotations
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)781 : Sche seyd sche was..comoun hore to alle man. Of þat chaunce mani nam kepe..For ribaudye gret haras [LinI: Of harlotes a gret haras] To folwe hir bodi. Allas!
- a1500 Terms Assoc.(3) (Lamb 306)233 : A haras of harlotes.