Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
hards .
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Examples
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Thei liued amonge the Scithians, and kept herdes of cattalle in very base state and condition: and ware tributaries to all their neighbours.
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[Sidenote: The Shepe - herdes name giue [n] to the of - fice of kyngs.]
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[Sidenote: The Shepe - herdes state necessarie.] wantyng.
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And ðe of adames gilte muneð ðat he her uten herdes wuneð.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Thei liued amonge the Scithians, and kept herdes of cattalle in very base state and condition: and ware tributaries to all their neighbours.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Manie have overcome the enemie, gevyng him occasion to eate and to drinke oute of measure, fayning to have feared, and leaving their Campes full of wyne and herdes of cattell, wherof the enemie beyng filled above all naturall use, have then assaulted him, and with his destruction overthrowen him.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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