▪ I. † hore, hor Obs.
Also 4 hoore.
[Com. Teut.: OE. horh, horᵹ masc. and neut., clammy humour, phlegm; also horu, horw- m., dirt, filth, foulness = OFris. hore, OS. horu, OHG. horo (horw-, horow-, horew-), MHG. hor (horw-es) n., dirt, LG. hor, hâr, dirt, ON. horr m., mucus from the nose:—OTeut. *horwo-:—pre-Teut. *korw-, *korv-; cf. OIr. corbud pollution.]
Dirt, filth, defilement, foulness.
| a 700 Epinal Gloss. 412 Flegmata, horh. a 1000 Elene 297 (Gr.) Ge mid horu speowdon on ðæs andwlitan. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 174 Dracontjan wiþ fule horas on men. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 56 Þæt aðweahð..fram synna hore⁓wum. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 49 Þe clenesse þe is bideled of þe hore þat is cleped hordom, þat is alre horene hore. c 1305 Edmund Conf. 8 in E.E.P. (1862) 71 So clene he cam fram his moder: wiþoute enie hore. c 1305 Land Cokaygne 34 (ibid. 157) Þer nis schepe no swine no gote No non horwȝ. 1340 Ayenb. 137 Huet am ich bote esssse and spearken and hor and stench, wermes wynd ssed and smech. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. iii. (1495) 442 Fylthe and hore of cyttees ben cast in to ryuers. Ibid. xvi. vii. 557 The fome of syluer clensyth fylth and hoore of bodyes. c 1430 Hymns Virg. 83 On me was neiþer wem ne hore. |
▪ II. hore
ME. north. midl. form of hair; obs. f. hoar, hour, oar, whore; var. her pron. Obs., their, ore Obs., mercy.