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▪ I. † are, n.1 Obs.
[Common Teut.: OE. ár, áre, cogn. w. ON. eir, OFris. ére, OS. and OHG. éra, MHG. ére, mod.G. ehre:—OTeut. *aizā. In 13th c. the long á in due course became ō, exc. in the north; hence the ME. form ore, q.v.]
1. Honour, reverence.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. John iv. 44 Witᵹa on his œðle uorðscip vel aare [Rushw. are] ne hæfis. 1205Lay. 31957 Þa ȝet he dude mare? to Peteres are [1250 Peter his are].
2. Grace, clemency. See ore n.1
c1200Moral Ode 127 Wenne deð is attere dure wel late he biddeþ are. c1200Ormin 1041 Propitiari, Þatt maȝȝ onn Ennglissh nemmned ben Millcenn & shæwenn are. c1320Sir Tristr. ii. xciii, Swete Ysoude, thin are!
▪ II. † are, a re, n.2 Mus. Obs.|ˈɑːreː|
[A, one of the notes of the gamut + re, the second note of each hexachord.]
In Guido Aretino's arrangement of the musical scale, the name of the note A in those hexachords (the 1st, 4th, and 7th), in which it coincided with the second lowest note, sung to the syllable re. In the collective gamut, A re was, distinctively, A of the first hexachord (i.e. the note A on the lowest or first space of the modern bass staff), the lowest note but one of Guido's whole scale; A of the octave, which was la of the 2nd hexachord, and mi of the 3rd, as well as re of the 4th, being distinguished as A la-mi-re. (See Grove, Dict. Mus. I. 734.) Cf. gamut.
c1450Burlesque in Rel. Ant. I. 83 Every clarke..seythe that are gothe befor bemy. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. i. 74 Are to plead Hortensio's passion. 1705T. Salmon in Phil. Trans. XXV. 2080 An Octave, from Are to Alamire. 1760[See alamire].
▪ III. ‖ are, n.3|ar|
[Fr., ad. L. ārea.]
The unit of superficial measurement in the French metric system; a square of which the side measures ten metres, equal to 119·6 sq. yards.
1819J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. 147.
▪ IV. † are, v.1 Obs.
[OE. árian: see are n.1]
To show grace or clemency to, respect, spare.
c1000ælfric Josh. ix. 21 Ac árodon heora life. c1200Ormin 5704 And Drihhtin..Shall arenn himm. Ibid. 1462 Swa þatt tu mihht wel arenn himm Þatt iss ȝæn þe forrgilltedd.
▪ V. are, v.2|ɑː(r), ə(r), (ə)(r), (r)|
Pl. pres. Ind. of be.
One of the remaining parts of the orig. substantive vb.: cf. am.
▪ VI. are
var. air adv. north. Before, earlier.
c1320Song in Rel. Ant. I. 292 Of ef fa ut [printed uȝ] and e la mi, ne coud y nevere are.
▪ VII. are
obs. f. ear, ere, heir, her, oar, their. |