hairif, hayrif
(ˈhɛərɪf)
Forms: 1 heᵹerife, 4 hayrive, 5 hayryf, heyriff, haryffe (harryf), harofe, harife, 6 herif (haylif), haireve, 7– hariff, 8– hairough, 9 dial. (see quots.).
[OE. heᵹerife wk. fem., app. f. heᵹe hedge + rife, of uncertain meaning. Another OE. name was heᵹeclife, f. cl{iacu}fan to cling, cleave: see clife, clive under cleavers.]
A widely-diffused popular name of Cleavers or Goose-grass, Galium Aparine.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 66 Wudu weaxe and heᵹerife ᵹecnuwa þa togædere. Ibid. II. 78 Wyl on wætere æscrinde..heᵹerife, marubian; beþe mid, & þæt lic gnid mid þære heᵹerifan. Ibid. III. 38 Wyll in buteran þas wyrta elenan moran and heᵹerifan. a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 37/1 Rubea minor, hayrive. 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 712/20 Hec uticella, haryffe. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 221/1 Hayryf, herbe (S. harryyf), rubea vel rubia minor, et major dicitur madyr. c 1440 MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, lf. 283 (Halliw.) Tak wormwod, or harofe, or wodebynde, and stamp it, and wrynge owt the jeuse. a 1500 MS. Sloane 5, lf. 29 a Rubia minor, Hayreff clyuer oþer aron is like to wodruff, and þe sed tuchid will honge in one is cloþis. 1530 Palsgr. 228/2 Haylife an herbe. 1597 Gerarde Herbal App., Haireue is Cliuers. 1674–91 Ray N.C. Words, Hariff and Catchweed, goose grasse [mispr. goose-grease], aparine. 1788 W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss., Hairough, galium aperine, cleavers. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 62 A dressing machine..for separating cleavers, goose-grass, or hariff from wheat or barley. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Hairrough or Harif. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Hairif. 1877 Holderness Gloss., Hairiff, Hairup, Hairif. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word.-bk., Hariffe. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss., Erriff..Hayrough is another and possibly the correct form. 1883 Hampshire Gloss., Heriff. 1884 Cheshire Gloss., Harif, herif. 1890 Gloucestersh. Gloss., Hairiff, harif, hariff, hariffe, hairif, haireve. |