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Vinony

Hare

proper noun

  1. family name
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noun

  1. mammal with long ears
  2. heraldic animal
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verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hɛə/ / /hɛː/ / /hɛɚ/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).

  1. Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).

    “a hare old man”

  2. Cold, frosty (of weather).

    “a hare day”

name

Etymology: * As an Irish surname, from ó hír (“descendant of Ír”), a personal name related to Old Irish sír (“long-lasting”). * Also as an Irish surname, from ó Haichir (“descendant of Aichear”), from aichear (“sharp”). * As an English surname, from the noun hare, originally as a nickname. * Also as an English surname, from Ayre. * Also as an English surname, from the obsolete Old English hær (“stone”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Hair. * As a French surname, from the verb harer (“to stir up, excite”), from Old French harier, from Frankish *hariōn, from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to devastate, lay waste”). * As a German surname, variant of Harr.

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
  2. Synonym of Sahtú.
  3. A hamlet in Broadway parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST2915).
  4. An unincorporated community in Williamson County, Texas, United States.
  5. A dialect of Slavey, an Athabaskan language.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hesô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-. Cognates See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).

  1. Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.

    “The hare has a reputation for exciting desire. Hare soup is credited with a particular aphrodisiac value.”

  2. The meat from this animal.

    “Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.”

    “Hare is another delicious meat – it’s more ‘steaky’, darker and richer than rabbit.”

  3. The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.

  1. To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.

    “To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.”