reynard

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When the fox appeared the deerhound made after him, and, in his attempt to dodge, reynard was bowled over on to his back.

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  1. A name of the fox in fable and poetry, in which the fox figures as cunning personified. Hyer [here] begynneth th[e h]ystorye of reynard the foxe. Caxton, tr. of Reynard the Fox (ed. 1481), p. 16. Now read, Sir Reynold, as ye be right wise, What course ye weene is best for us to take. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale.

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  1. Formerly also reynold, reynald; from late Middle English reynard, from Old French reynard, regnard, regnar, regnart, renart, renard, French renard = Provencal raynart = Old Catalan ranart, a fox, from Old Flemish (Old Low German) Reinaerd, Reinaert(German Reinhart, Reinecke), a name given to the fox in a famous epic of Low German origin (“Reynard the Fox”), in which animals take the place of men, each one having a personal name, the lion being called Noble, the cat Tibert, the bear Bruin, the wolf Isegrim, the fox Reynard, etc., and which became so popular that renard in the common speech began to take the place of the vernacular Old French goulpil, goupil, fox, and finally supplanted it entirely; from Middle High German Reinhart, Old High German Reginhart, Raginhart, a personal name, literally ‘strong in counsel,’ from ragin-, regin-, counsel (cf. Icelandic regin, plural, the gods: see Ragnarök, and cf. Anglo-Saxon regn-(= Icelandic regin-), intensive prefix in regn-heard, very hard, etc., regn-meld, a solemn announcement, regn-theóf, an arch-thief, etc., and in personal names such as Regen-here, etc., = Gothic (Moesogothic) ragin, an opinion, judgment, decree, advice), + hart, strong, hard, = English hard: see hard and -ard.
 

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