▪ I. † hewe Obs.
Also 1 pl. hiwan, 2 pl. hiwun, 2–3 heowe, 4 hewen.
[OE. h{iacu}wan pl. (of *h{iacu}wa), members of a household, domestics, ME. hiwen, heowen, hewen, heowes and hewes pl.; also (later) hewe sing. = ON. hj{uacu}, hj{uacu}n, OHG. hîwun, hîun, man and wife, members of the household, domestics, MDu. huwen domestics (OHG. sing. hîwo husband, hîwa wife); deriv. of hîw-, Goth. heiwa- household (in heiwafrauja, Mk. xiv. 14, οἰκοδεσπότης, master of the household, ‘good-man of the house’. Cf. hewen, hide n.2, hind n.2, hird).
The Teut. hiwa- is thought by some to be coradicate with L. civis citizen.]
A domestic, a servant.
| a 1000 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 757 Hine of sloᵹon his hiwan. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Mark v. 19 Ga to þinum huse to þinum hiwum [c 1160 Hatton G. heowen]. a 1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Ga inn seðen mid þine hiwun. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. xlii. 114 Mury hit ys in hyre tour, wyth hatheles ant wyth heowes. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 559 He ne with⁓halt non hewe [A. vi. 42 non hyne] his hire þat he ne hath it at euen. Ibid. xiv. 3, I have an houswyf hewen and children. c 1386 Chaucer Merch. T. 541 O seruaunt tray⁓tour, false hoomly hewe. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 173 This fals envious hewe..torneth preising into blame. |
▪ II. hewe
obs. f. heave v.; erron. f. hove v.