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hairif, hayrif|ˈhɛərɪf| Forms: 1 heᵹerife, 4 hayrive, 5 hayryf, heyriff, haryffe (harryf), harofe, harife, 6 herif (haylif), haireve, 7– hariff, 8– hairough, 9 dial. (see quots.). [OE. heᵹerife wk. fem., app. f. heᵹe hedge + rife, of uncertain meaning. Another OE. name was heᵹeclife, f. clífan to cling, cleave: see clife, clive under cleavers.] A widely-diffused popular name of Cleavers or Goose-grass, Galium Aparine.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 66 Wudu weaxe and heᵹerife ᵹecnuwa þa togædere. Ibid. II. 78 Wyl on wætere æscrinde..heᵹerife, marubian; beþe mid, & þæt lic gnid mid þære heᵹerifan. Ibid. III. 38 Wyll in buteran þas wyrta elenan moran and heᵹerifan. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 37/1 Rubea minor, hayrive. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 712/20 Hec uticella, haryffe. c1440Promp. Parv. 221/1 Hayryf, herbe (S. harryyf), rubea vel rubia minor, et major dicitur madyr. c1440MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, lf. 283 (Halliw.) Tak wormwod, or harofe, or wodebynde, and stamp it, and wrynge owt the jeuse. a1500MS. Sloane 5, lf. 29 a Rubia minor, Hayreff clyuer oþer aron is like to wodruff, and þe sed tuchid will honge in one is cloþis. 1530Palsgr. 228/2 Haylife an herbe. 1597Gerarde Herbal App., Haireue is Cliuers. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words, Hariff and Catchweed, goose grasse [mispr. goose-grease], aparine. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss., Hairough, galium aperine, cleavers. 1856Farmer's Mag. Jan. 62 A dressing machine..for separating cleavers, goose-grass, or hariff from wheat or barley. 1876Whitby Gloss., Hairrough or Harif. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Hairif. 1877Holderness Gloss., Hairiff, Hairup, Hairif. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word.-bk., Hariffe. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Erriff..Hayrough is another and possibly the correct form. 1883Hampshire Gloss., Heriff. 1884Cheshire Gloss., Harif, herif. 1890Gloucestersh. Gloss., Hairiff, harif, hariff, hariffe, hairif, haireve. |