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QLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES. 383<br />

me<strong>an</strong> •hair'], is the stock epithet<br />

<strong>of</strong> trees <strong>an</strong>d forests in <strong>alliterative</strong><br />

poetry, so that the sense is certain.<br />

Cf. ' hore okez ' in Gawain<br />

<strong>an</strong>d the Grene Knight. 743.<br />

Jamieson gives examples <strong>of</strong> <strong>an</strong>e<br />

'<br />

hare wode,' a hoary wood, from<br />

WyntowD, viii. 26. 228, <strong>an</strong>d <strong>an</strong>e<br />

'<br />

hare wode ' from Douglas's Virgil<br />

; but wrongly supposes the<br />

etymology to be from A.S. h

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