Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
harry . - A variant of
herry . - An obsolete form of
hairy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To worship; to glorify; to praise.
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Examples
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Or Montl'hery's, that nestles safe close to the heart of France? '
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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¶ Th {us} hery {n} g resydiuacon fro the {n} s he went ageyn
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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++To go to sewynge of fysshe: musculade, menewes in sewe of porpas or of samon, bacon hery {n} ge w {i} t {h} suger, grene fysshe, pyke, lampraye, salens, porpas rosted, bake gurnade, and lampraye bake.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Spenser uses often ‘to welk’ (welken) in the sense of to fade, ‘to sty’ for to mount, ‘to hery’ as to glorify or praise, ‘to halse’ as to embrace, ‘teene’ as vexation or grief: Shakespeare ‘to tarre’ as to provoke, ‘to sperr’ as to enclose or bar in; ‘to sag’ for to droop, or hang the head downward.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Dia tena firenena voahozona ve i Madagasika, tsy misy afatsin ` ny mifampidera hery ve ny ain ` ny mpanao politika Malagasy.
Global Voices Online 2009
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Dia tena firenena voahozona ve i Madagasika, tsy misy afatsin ` ny mifampidera hery ve ny ain ` ny mpanao politika Malagasy.
Global Voices Online 2009
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daya - Malay hery - Malagasy Curiously, final i is always written y in Malagasy
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Sorry i spelt it wrong just in a hery:) yazzerx reply to this
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R* for fiihing in plaintiff's fifhery, entering clofes, breaking down rails, treading down grafs, kc, {Sa Plea, Right of Common of Fi (hery, pcfi.)
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It is infinitely more pro li table than the wandering fi (hery, becaufe it requires much lefs ex enablifli an advantageous trade there.
A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America ... 1779
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