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Hair, Hare, n.2 Also: haire, hayr, har. [ME. hair(e, hayre (14th c.), var. of heir, OF. heir. Cf. Heir n. and Air n.1] An heir.(a) 1392 Lennox Mun. 48.
Nouther I … na nane of our hayris sal make anyng 1410 Red Bk. Menteith II. 281.
The lauchful haires male 1460 Peebles B. Rec. 135.
[We] the forsaid balyeis, … our hayris, exsicuturis, and assygnayis 1544 Chart. Coupar A. II. 194.
The saidis Johnne, Jonet his spous, and hair mail forsaid 1600-1610 Melvill 381.
The hair of the warld, the king of glorie 1665 Caldwell Fam. P. 64.
The earle and his hairs ar to suspend ther possessione(b) 1418 Liber Melros 503.
Thir thyngis done … throw the said Nycole or hys haris 1431 Buccleuch Mun. II. 29.
To be haldin off the sayd Iames … and hys harys 1433 Swintons App. xxxvi.
Son and har 1518 Sutherland Chart. 69.
Ionett and Elesabeht Clyne, dochterris and haris to … Willȝeam Clyne 1565 Rep. Southesk MSS. 17.
[To] leawe the same [house] to the haris therof as it stuid
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