hare

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As soon as the hare was awake, he roused the fox, and the fox, the wolf, and the wolf the bear, and the bear the lion.

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  1. noun Any of various mammals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to rabbits but having longer ears and legs and giving birth to active, furred young.
  2. intransitive verb To move hurriedly, as if hunting a swift quarry.

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  • --'My compliments (said Johnson,) and I'll dine with him--hare or rabbit After breakfast I departed, and pursued my journey northwards. —  Life of Johnson
  • The Wildlife Notebook says that the hare is a primary food source of the lynx. —  A Grave Denied
  • His course, however, bent gradually into a circle of which the hare was the centre--the diameter being the full breadth of the summit level, which was about three hundred yards. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
  • Look at Otty with all the guns running like a hare, and all the little girls flying like lapwings. —  Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
  • After a moment's hesitation he bounded away like a hare, the rays of light still following him, caused by manoeuvring the instrument on board. —  From Lower Deck to Pulpit
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hara; see kas- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hare, from Anglo-Saxon hara = OFries. hase = Middle Dutch haese, Dutch haas = Middle Low German hase = Old High German haso, Middle High German G. hase = Icelandic hēri (for heri) = Swedish Danish hare (from Teutonic stem *hasan-) = Welsh ceinach = Old Prussian sasins = Sanskrit çaça (for *casa), a hare.
  2. = English dial. harr, from Middle English harien, harren, drag by force, ill-treat; either the same as harien for herien. Herʒien, English harry, q. v., or from Old French harier, harry, hurry, trouble, disturb, importune, annoy; perhaps also confused with Old French harer (un chien), set (a dog) on, encourage; cf. haro, harrow, an exclamation; crier haro, cry harrow: see harrow.
 

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