▪ I. † arr, n. Obs. exc. in north. dial.
Also 3–5 erre (a nerre), 4–6 arre, 5 ar.
[a. ON. örr, ör; cf. Da. ar.]
A wound, scar. Only in northern writers, and still common dialectally.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter xxxvii. 6 Stanke and roten mine erres ere ma. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 5600 Þe erres of his [Christes] wondes sal speke. 1388 Wyclif Lev. xxii. 22 If it hath a scar [v.r. arre]. c 1450 Gloss. in Wright Voc. 209 Hec cicatrix, a nerre. 1564 MS. Depos. Eccl. Crt. Yrk., Hayth not any arre or arres of his legg or legges. 1655 W. Rawmarsh MS. Depos. Yrk. Castle, A young man with pock arrs in his face. 1691 Ray N. Countr. Words, An Arr; A Skar. Pock-arrs, the Marks made by the Small Pox. This is a general Word, common both to North and South. 1863 Atkinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘I'll gie thee an arr to carry to thy grave,’..An arr on the conscience, is the inward impression of having done wrong. |
▪ II. † arr, v.1 Obs.
[Origin uncertain: Mätzner compares LG. arren to vex, f. arre anger = OE. erre, ierre, eorre. Cf. next.]
To anger, vex, worry.
| [1382 Wyclif Deut. xxxii. 16 Thei eggiden him in alyen goddis, and in abomynaciouns to wraththe arreden [v.r. arereden, rereden; Vulg. concitaverunt]. a 1400 Cov. Myst. 306 The Jewys xal crye for joy with a gret voys, and arryn hym, and pullyn of his clothis. 1651 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. xiv. 216 He arred both the Clergy and Laity. |
▪ III. † arr, v.2 Obs.
[A word imitating the sound; whence also R is called by Persius littera canina. In some modern dialects narr, and nurr.]
To snarl as a dog.
| 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour C ij b, Eche arred at other lyke houndes. 1600 Nashe Summer's Last Will in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 44 They arre and bark at night against the moon. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 726 (R.) A dog is..fell and quarrelsome, given to arre. |