Middle English Dictionary Entry
hors-hēr n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hors-hēr n. |
| Etymology | From hors & hēr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The hair of horses; (b) a horse hair; esp. one from the tail or mane; (c) horse hair used for making cord, rope, haircloth, etc.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)274a/a : His here is more neissche þan hors heer [L pilis equi].
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)7726 : Alle his membris lasse and more Were al be-growen with hors-hore.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)424 : To mak yelow for horse treese and hayr.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.323 : He heet honge a briȝt swerd and a scharp evene above his heved by an horshere [L seta equina].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)158a/a : Or be þai separate with a threde or wiþ an hors here [L pilo equino].
- a1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)34a : Þe fysworme in þe bake of A hawke..is A fote long..& also grete as A horse her.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)155/35 : Nothynge the Swerde helde Saue oone hors-here.
c
- c1300 SLeg.Edm.Abp.(Hrl 2277)161-6 : Seint Edmund werede stronge here..Of hard hors her [Ld: horses here] ymaked..A strong rop þer was..of hors her [Ld: horse here].
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)56 : Do alle þis to him as men doon to an hors þat is spauled in þe shuldere before, I-draw þourghe out a corde of horshere.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)100a : Þou most haue plente of senewes and horshere for strenges.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2338 : The crosbowyng to stringe..Hors her of mane & tail..good is to take.
- (1480-82) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.32146 : Paid for hors hare for the cloke, j d.