Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
hire . - noun A cap.
- noun In heraldry, the head of a boar, wolf, or bear, used as a bearing.
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Examples
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Þe meidenes wið {} uten ȝif heo serueð ðe ancre also ase heo owen {;} hore hure schal beon ðe eche blisse of heouene. hwo {} so haueð eie hope touward so heie hure : gledliche wule heo seruen ⁊ lihtliche alle wo and alle teone þolien.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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Again Millais gives us the noble features, the extravagant 'hure' [35] of the Tennyson whom his contemporaries saw, alive, glowing with force;
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The Hurons and the Iroquois are said to have received their names from the French ” the former in allusion to the French word hure, a head of hair, these savages being distinguished by a singular mode of dressing theirs; the latter from their frequent repetition of the word “hiro,” “I have said it,” the ordinary termination of the warriors 'harangues.
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August 6, 2009 at 4:24 am itz bein rainenz kittehz an goggehz hure awlmost eberydai… iz bein bery hard tu be findinz tehm awl lubing homez ai telz ya
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Whne ai geytz buttr, ai iz gonnta hure sum1 t3 teech me how t3 put ina picturz. *sigh* Ai got sum t3 shur, butt fer nuw, ai iz stil happi.
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I'm a big big hure fan of tablo and I'm really looking for a copy of this book here in the Phil. for me to buy.
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The name by which they are most often called is from the French hure, for the hair of a wild boar.
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The name by which they are most often called is from the French hure, for the hair of a wild boar.
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In hure legent as y dude there that tyme rede, and later presents other material,
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Ne mis {} leue nan godd {;} hwet {} se tide of þe ancre · þ̵ he hire trukie. þe meidnes wið {} uten ȝef ha seruið þe ancre alswa as ha ahen · hare hure schal beon þe hehe blisse of heouene.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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