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 Joseph Hall
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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;
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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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.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation Anonymous 1880
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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
Video: Bat Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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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.
Pieces of You by Daniel Armand Lee Tarie 2009
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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.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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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.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In hure legent as y dude there that tyme rede, and later presents other material,
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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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 Joseph Hall
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