▪ I. nare, n. Now only arch.
(nɛə(r))
[ad. L. nāris (usu. in pl. nārēs: see nares). Cf. OF. nairre (Godef.).]
† 1. A nostril. Obs. (chiefly in 17th c. verse).
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxii. (Bodl. MS.), Veynes & nares & þe pawme of the hondes..be bawmed þerwiþ. a 1616 B. Jonson Epigr., On famous Voy. 133 For, yet, no nare was tainted, Nor thumb, nor finger, to the stop acquainted. 1663 Butler Hud. i. i. 742 There is a Machiavilian plot, (Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not). |
2. spec. A nostril of a hawk.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans a v, With a penne put it in the hawkis nares Ones or twyes. Ibid. c vij, Thorogh her Nostrellis or hir nares. c 1575 Perf. Bk. Sparhawkes (1886) 6 Seare fayre: nares wyde: stalke short and bygg. 1614 Latham Falconry (1633) 131, I was inforced first to slit her with a knife, from her eare vnto her nare. 1614 Markham Cheap Husb. ii. viii. xiii. 142 The Rheume is a continuall running or dropping at the Hawkes Nares. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Aposthume, When the Nares of the Hawk are stuffed up..put some Drops thereof upon her Nares. 1840 Browning Sordello iv. 59 Who bade him bloody the spent osprey's nare? 1860 H. Ainsworth Ovingdean Grange 61 Its keen-bent beak,..wide nares, and full black eye. |
| Comb. c 1450 Bk. Hawking (Harl. MS. 2340) 14 a, Coold..makith flume fall oute of þe brayne, [and] but if it have hastely help it wol stop his nare þrolles. |
▪ II. † nare, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 neara, neare, 2 nara, 3–4 nare.
[OE. neara, var. of nearo narrow a.]
Narrow.
In the collocation narewei, nare wey, which occurs in the Moral Ode 347 (Egerton text) and R. Glouc. Chron. 3312, the form may be due to elision of the w (in narew) before that of the word following.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. xix, Behealde he..hu neara þære eorðan stede is, þeah heo us rum þince. a 900 Kentish Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 80 Puteus angustus, neare pyt. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. vii. 14 Eala hu neara [Hatton nara] & hu angsum is þæt ᵹeat. c 1270 S. E. Leg. I. 304/157 Þe hul..is sumdel nare [= 163 narv]. Ibid. 320/724 It lith..ibouwed ase an hare..for is In is sumdel nare. c 1315 Shoreham i. 1383 He a-uangeþ a crowet eke, And a towaylle nare. |
▪ III. † nare
were not: cf. ne and nere. Obs.
| a 1175 Cott. Hom. 223 Nare hio blinde ȝescapene. c 1200 Moral Ode 201 (Trin. Coll. MS.), Alle unhalðe Þurh deað cam in þis middeneard..Nare noman elles dead. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. iii. (1868) 10 Certis it nar[e] not leueful ne sittyng to philosophie [etc.]. |