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Hare, Hair, n.¹ Also: har, are; hayre, haeir, her, hear(e. [North midl. ME. hayre (14th c.), ME. are (1436), haare (14th c.), hare, OE. hara.] A hare.(a) c1420 Wynt. vi. 255.
Ane hare [v.rr. are, hair, hayre] offt he luwyd till ete Ib. 1235.
Thai slwe a hare ?1438 Alex. ii. 3633.
Thair I haue beft the busk bare, And ane vthir hes tane the hare 1456 Hay II. 157/16.
Rad … as a hare 1531 Bell. I. 186.
Gif that the haris had forrun the hundis 1539 Treas. Acc. VI. 139.
To the badman that fyndis the haris to the kingis grace 1598 Stirling Ant. III. 310.
Ane har, ... ane blakcokfig. 1658 R. Moray Lett. 29 Mar.
This may serve for one chace of our new hare, which here I will let take a squat(b) a1500 Henr. Fab. 895.
The hirpland hair Ib. 2235.
The husband than woxe angrie as ane hair 1504 Treas. Acc. II. 427.
To ane man fand ane hair sittand 1513 Doug. xii. xii. 172.
Lyke as befor the hund wiskis the hair 1567 Acts Jas. VI (1597) 12 b.
That na maner of person … suld schut … at … hair c1590 J. Stewart 13/49.
As terrefeit haeir that rins the honds befoir ?1549 Monro W. Isles 7.
Laich land, full of hairis & fowmartis 1654 Nicoll Diary 139.
There com in to the Hie Streit … sindrie quick hayres 1684 Urie Baron Ct. 98.
Ilke ane … acknowledged … that they had killed ffoullis and haires(c) 1678 Banff Ann. I. 158.
[Several fined] for killing of heris(d) 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 107.
Their came ane hear be tymes, and souckit a milk kow 1600-1610 Melvill 248.
A heare brak out amangs the multitude 1662 Crim. Trials III. 611.
Hair, hair, God send thé cair! I am in a hearis liknes now

b. attrib. and comb. 14.. Acts I. 304/2.
Of ane hundreth gayt skynnys or har skynnys thre half peniis 1588 Treas. Acc. MS. 94.
Furnessing of his maiesties hair hundis in meill and bran 1701 Foulis Acc. Bk. 297.
For … servants and horses and hare finders at hunting