A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1420, 1475-1681
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Hering, Heiring, vbl. n. Also: heryng, -ynge, -yn(e, -ying, hearing, hiering. [ME. hering(e, -unge (a 1225).] The action of the verb Here.
1. The faculty of hearing; perception by the ear.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxi. 767.
To dum he gef spekyng, & to def the herynge a1400 Ib. xxix. 21.
Quhen for elde he has quhyt hare, Or quhen hym falȝeis heryng 1490 Irland Mir. I. 64/15.
The bodely wittis of man, … as the sycht, heryne, [etc.] 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 21.
Thair ȝelpis wilde my heiring all fordeifit 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xliv.
Thir mussillis ar sa doyn gleg of twiche and hering1629 Justiciary Cases I. 99.
In Godis name to geve him his hiering(2) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace x. 455.
Quhen that the Bruce out off thair heryng wer 1649 St. A. Presb. 140.
He heard young Andrew Patrik say [etc.], in his fathers heiring
2. The action of giving ear; listening, hearing.1375 Barb. i. 5.
Than suld storys that suthfast wer … Hawe doubill plesance in heryng a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvi. 487.
Herrod … Wald syndry tymis cum hym to, & tholmodly gif hyme heryng c1420 Wynt. ii. Prol. 25.
Off hys storys tha wyll I Compyle, that me thynk … tyll yhowre heryng mast plesand c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 1291.
For dayly mes, and heryng off confessioun 1562-3 Winȝet II. 28/13.
Turning away … thair hering fra the trewth 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 4.
He was … devoit of hering of mes and devyne seruice 1612 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 307.
The sowme … presentlie to foir at the heiring of the comptis of the last thesaure 1622-6 Bisset I. 307/4.
To compeir … in the courte … to the heiring of the dome1627 Orkney Rentals iii. 8.
When they maye expect a lawfull heiring1647 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 78.
Within the bodie of the kirk whair the people meit for heiring of the word1666 Jurid. Rev. XXIV. 17.
The commissioner asked me if I was a heirer, ... I replyit and told him that for hearing and for not hearing I had payit more than my whole rent1681 Irish Colonial Schemes 129.
For hiering of private complaints
