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▪ I. hired, ppl. a.|haɪəd|
[f. hire v. + -ed1.]
Engaged or employed for payment; let out on hire: mercenary. Also with adverbs, as hired out.
c1230Hali Meid. 29 Eni driuel iþe hus oðer eni ihured hine. 1382Wyclif Luke xv. 19 Make me as oon of thi hyrid men [1388 thin hirid men]. 1388― John x. 13 The hirid hyne fleeth, for he is an hirid hyne. c1440Promp. Parv. 241/2 Hyryd man, or servawnte, conductius. 1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 271, I have a hiered horse. 1597Daniel Civ. Wars vi. lix, With mercenarie breath And hyred tongue. 1711Steele Spect. No. 155 ⁋1 Travelling together in the same hired Coach. 1789Gibbon Autobiog. (1896) 127 An independent stranger in a hired lodging. 1808Scott Life Dryden iv, To have recourse to hired bravoes to avenge his personal quarrel. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. i. 9 He..has a crowd of hired courtiers at his side.
b. hired man, hired woman, hired girl, hired people: applied to free men or women engaged as servants (the latter word being formerly used to include slaves). U.S.
1639Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 122 Roberte Eldred, the hyred servant of Nicholas Sympkins for the terme of three yeares. 1714tr. Joutel's La Salle's Jrnl. 2 Hired People and Workmen of all Sorts, requisite for making of a Settlement. 1715Laws of Maryland (1765) c. 44 §10 No Person whatsoever, shall trade..with any Servant, whether hired, or indented, or Slave..without Leave or License. 1737Plymouth (Mass.) Town Rec. 18 May (1892) II. 321 A hired man with me on a fishing voyage. 1751Franklin Obs. Increase Mankind Wks. 1887 II. 227 Slaves may be kept as long as a man pleases..while hired men are continually leaving their masters (often in the midst of his business). 1792tr. J. P. Brissot's New Trav. U.S. 400 They [Quakers] have no slaves; they employ negroes as hired servants. 1818J. Flint Lett. Amer. (1822) 9 Master is not a word in the vocabulary of hired people. Bos, a Dutch one of similar import, is substituted. The former is used by Negroes, and is by free people considered as synonymous with slave-keeper. 1820Ibid. 264 These I must call Americanisms..Hired Girl for Servant Girl. Hired Man for Servant Man. 1842J. F. Watson Ann. Philad. (1857) I. 176 Now all hired girls appear abroad in the same style of dress as their ladies. 1877Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 4), Hired man, a man-servant. Hired woman, a servant-girl. Many servants dislike to be called such, and think it more respectable to say ‘help’ or ‘hired woman’. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 19 Jan. 43/1 Where are the farms on which there is no place for the ‘hired man’ or ‘hired girl’?
▪ II. hired, hiredman
see hird, hirdman. |