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单词 nar
释义 I. nar, a. Obs. exc. north. dial.
Forms: 1 nearra, neorra, nerra, nærra, 3–5 nerre, 4 nerr, 4, 6 ner; 6–7 narre, 7 narr, 6, 9 nar. Also compar. 4 nerrer, 6 (9) narer, 9 dial. narder; superl. 4–6 nerrest, (6 -ast), 6–7 narrest.
[OE. néarra etc., comparative of néah nigh; but in ME. perh. partly from ON. nærre, nærri adj. (see next). The ME. compar. nerrer and superl. nerrest have been formed on nerre as if it were a positive form.]
Nearer, nigher.
1. In attributive use. ( In OE. also = later.) In mod. dial. only in nar horse, nar leg, nar side, and occas. in other senses of the positive near.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i, On hire westhealfe is seo us nearre ægyptus.c900tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. xv, His ða nerran [v.r. nearran, neorran] tide wæron wyrsan þam ærran.c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 31 Se æftera vel nærra [L. novissimus].c1200Ormin 15691 For þatt teȝȝ wærenn off hiss kinn & tærþurrh nerre breþre.c1305in Pop. Treat. Sci. 133 So that the sonne..schyneth on the nerre half in thulke that ner him is.1429Rolls of Parlt. IV. 342/2 Paied..atte a rather and nerre day.1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Propius, Gradu sanguinis propior, Nerre kinne.1607Markham Caval. ii. (1617) 5 The farre fore-foote, and the narre hinder foot.Ibid. iv. 9 You shall linke together his [the horse's] left legges, which we call his narre legges.1659Indenture, Goosnargh, Lancs, 2 closes..called narr or nearer croft and the further croft.1736―, Sheffield, The narr stubbed piece,..the far stubbed piece.1863Atkinson Prov. Danby, Nar-side, the lefthand side (of a horse or team).1871E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 108 A hos..brok' his nar fore-leg in two places.1899Dickinson & Prevost Cumbld. Gloss. s.v., The left-hand or nar horse walks on the land, when ploughing two abreast.
b. In superlative. Nearest.
c1470Henry Wallace ix. 421 Eftir he gaiff stayt to his nerrest ayr.1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 25 In Scotland than, the narrest way, He come.1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 96 Vsurping (as..hir Grace's nerrest freindis thocht) hir Hienes auctorite.1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. Prol. 7 To the vse of thair nychtbours and nerrest natiouns.1609Skene Reg. Maj. 33 Some are narrest heires, some are farther.
2. In predicative use. Occas. const. to.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 233 Ho was me nerre þen aunte or nece.1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 250 Ȝet am I neuere þe ner, for nouȝt I haue walkid.1382Wyclif Ruth iii. 12 Ne I denye me to be nyȝ, but there is another nerre than Y.1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) i. iii. 4 It semyd me moche more nerre than it was byfore.1461Paston Lett. I. 542 He answered ageyn in these wordes, ‘Nere is my kyrtyl but nerre is my smok’.a1542Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 58 Your sighes yow fet from farre,..Yet ar ye nere the narre.1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. July 97 To Kerke the narre, to God more farre, has bene an old sayd sawe.1868Brierley Irkdale xiii. 198 (Lancs Gloss.), Letten somb'dy else be nar to him nor me.
b. In forms nerrer, etc. and in superlative.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10626 His neuew he ys,..Of blod ys non nerrer þan he.1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 9237 Alle þas..When þai com þar sal be hym nerrest. Þe nerrer þat þai sal hym be [etc.].1570Satir. Poems Reform. xii. 181 Feche Leuenox hame, Ȝe haif nane narer nor he.1869Gibson Folk-speech Cumbld. 31 Mebbe I wad be narder t' truth.
II. nar, adv. (and prep.) Obs. exc. north. dial. and Sc.
Forms: 4–5 nerre, 4–6 nerr, 5–6 ner; 4–7 narre, 5–6 nare, 5–6, 9 nar, 9 dial. naar, naur. Also compar. 4 nerrer, (5 -ere), nerþere, 5 narrere.
[ME. nerre, ad. ON. nærre, nærri adv., ‘nearer, near’, compar. of ná- ‘nigh’, used only in combs. as ná-búi neighbour.]
1. Nearer, nigher, closer. (Cf. near adv.1)
a1300Cursor M. 12366 Þe folk stod and behild o-ferr, For leons durst þai cum na nerr.13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 85 At alle peryles, quoth þe prophete I aproche hit no nerre.1390Gower Conf. I. 314 This Flete..The bryghte fyres sih a ferr, And thei hem drowen nerr and nerr.c1440York Myst. ix. 62 Telle hym I wol come no narre.1470–85Malory Arthur xx. xxii. 838 Thenne Syr Launcelot stode nerre syr Gauwayn, and..doubled hys strokes.1562Cooper Answ. Def. Truth (1850) 52 That he might press upon you somewhat narre than other before had used.1591Harington Orl. Fur. ii. xlii, Still, as I approcht a little narre, More wonderfull the building doth appeare.1703Thoresby Let. to Ray, Nar, nearer.1857J. Scholes Jaunt 19 (Lancs Gloss.), Aw hardly know iv aw awt to ventur ony narr.
b. In forms nerrer, narrer, etc.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvi. (Magdalene) 932 Þe bischape for rednes Durste cum na narrere.c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 63 Þei shulden sue Crist in poverte, nerrer þan oþir comounes.Ibid. II. 101 Ech man shulde sue him or ferþere or nerþere.c1400Mandeville (1839) iv. 30 Whoso wil..come nerrer to Jerusalem.c1450Lovelich Grail xlvi. 243 He dressed hym to haven a syhte, Nerrere than he scholde han do.
2. Near, nigh, close (to).
a1300Cursor M. 4551 Þan cald þe king ioseph nerr.Ibid. 17288 + 387 Als þai come narre þe castelle.c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9610 He somounde firste þo til his werre, Þat deyned nought for Lot come nerre.a1352Minot Poems (ed. Hall) x. 15 Wight men of þe west neghed þam nerr.c1470Gol. & Gaw. 1017 Thair with the nobill in neid nyghit hym ner.1519W. Horman Vulg. 27 Sume se but narre.1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 516 Sclander and schame euer to it drawis nar.1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. Prol. 40 Sche..cumis nevir ner thame.1647H. More Song of Soul ii. App. lxxxii, Besides that firie flame that was so narre The Planets self.a1833R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (c 1850) 93 Lads aw nar us are weyld fops an fuils.1867Waugh Owd Blanket iv. 95 They begun a-drawin' nar to th' heawse.
b. Nearly, almost. rare.
13..Cursor M. 7012 (Gött.), Fourti thousand of Israele, Of beniamyn nerr [Cott. negh] als fele.1859A. Whitehead Leg Westmld. 6 (E.D.D. s.v. Near), An flay'd poor Brittons nar to death.1871Alexander Johnny Gibb xviii. 136 A chap or twa, naar grippit braid i' the crood.
III. nar
are not: see ne and be v. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7656 In al Saxonye nar [v.r. ere] non þem lyk.Ibid. 16501 Þat we nar [v.r. ne are] worþy a-geyn be cald To penaunce.c1330Amis & Amil. 597 Kinges sones..Nar non to gode to the.
IV. nar
were not, variant of nere. Obs.
c1320Sir Tristr. 2464 So bliþe al bi dene Nar þai neuer are.c1330Arth. & Merl. 6137 (Kölbing), Þo nar þo wiþ king Arthour Bot to & fourti.c1440Lydg. Hors, Shepe & G. 112 The besi Marchant..Nar [v.r. Ner] shippis & hors coude make no cariage.
V. nar
in nar nar, an imitation of the growling of a dog (cf. narr v.). Obs. rare—1.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 69 Though all be well, yet he none aunswere hath Saue the dogges letter, glowming with nar nar.
VI. nar
variant of ner, nor. Obs.
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