Middle English Dictionary Entry
hōren v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | hōren v.(1) |
| Etymology | OE hārian |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of a person, the head: to become white-haired or gray-haired; of the hair, beard: become white or gray; grei-hored, grown gray and hoary; whit-hored, grayish white; (b) to grow old, mature.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1300 Maximian (Dgb 86)228 : Wilde ich wes her þo..Ar I bigon to hore; Helde is min I-fo.
- a1350 Heȝe louerd (Hrl 2253)93 : Help me, Lord, er þen ich hore, ant stunt my lyf a stounde.
- c1330(?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch)p.659 : Her schel no man elde..In is heued schel hore non her.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)348 : Homme pur veilesse chanue, M. for helde horuth.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.81 : Þese Pigmei geten children..in þe fourþe ȝere, and horeþ [Higd.(2): wexe hoore; L canescunt] in þe fifte ȝere.
- c1390 Susan.(Vrn)339 : Þou gome of gret elde, þin hed is grei hored [Ing: grey hore].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)45a/a : In elde þe berde hooreþ [L canescit] for febilnesse of hete.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1595 : His berde shal hore, his folk steru, Ar any man of Tyre hym serue.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)11b/b : Canesco: to bygynne to hore.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)40a : Lavandyr coton growith in gardynes, and his colour is white horyd.
- c1450 Wimbledon Serm.(Hat 57)23/9 : His heed horiþ, his bac crokiþ.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)29/2 : It lettyth þat a man schall noȝt horyn, and it makyth a man to semyn ȝonglyche.
- c1475 7 Sages(1) (Eg 1995)1/19 : Hys Fadyr was olde and ganne to hoore.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)69/38 : It opyns þe closynges of þe brayn..and kepys a man þat he hore noght sone.
b
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)2808 : Correct it, gode is, whil þat it is grene; ffor, and it hore, þis lande is but lost.