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▪ I. fere, n.1 Obs. exc. arch.
Forms: α. 1 Northumb. fœra, 2–9 fere, 3 south. vere, 3–6 fer, 3, 6–8 Sc. feir, (5 feyr), 4–8 feare, 4–9 feer(e. β. 6–8 phear(e, pheer(e, 7 phere.
[ME. fere, ONorthumb. fœ́ra, aphetic f. OE. ᵹeféra (y-fere):—pre-Eng. *gifôrjon-, f. gi- (y-) together + *fôrâ going, way, f. ablaut-root of faran.]
1. A companion, comrade, mate, partner; whether male or female; † rarely in comb. with a n., as meat-, play-, school-, sucking-fere: see those words.
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 30 Ne wærun we foeran eora in blodgyte uitgana. c1205Lay. 26135 Howel..nom al his feren and ferde to þan munte. a1225Ancr. R. 86 Þu hauest monie ueren. a1300Cursor M. 8607 (Cott.) Fra hir fere sco stall hir barn. 1375Barbour Bruce vi. 70 Till hunt hym owt off the land..as he war..a theyff, or theyffs fer. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xviii. 19 Peter..and hus fere Andreu. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) lviii, ‘Is he comun’ he sayd, ‘my nowun true fere?’ 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 600 Few feiris with him that tyme he hed. a1572Gascoigne Arraignm. of Lover, A quest, Of whom was falshoode formoste feere. 1575Appius & Virginia in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 113 My sovereign lord and friendly pheer. 1627Drayton Agincourt 100 Englands valient Infantry his Pheres. a1775‘Hobie Noble’ vii. in Child Ballads clxxxix. (1890) 2/1 My feiries five! 1830Tennyson Poems 40 The lamb..raceth freely with his fere. 1867J. Ingelow Story Doom v. 58 [She] went forth With fair and flattering words, among her feres. 1880Webb Goethe's Faust 24 Mine ancient fere, be merry!
b. in phrases: to choose, have, love, take to or unto (one's) fere.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 11 Elch man haueð to fere on engel of heuene. a1250Prov. ælfred 222 in O.E. Misc. 116 Ne may he for-vare þe hyne haueþ to vere. c1300Cursor M. 4450 (Gott.) Bot þe mayster iaoler To ioseph taght þaim vnto fere. c1320Cast. Love 483 He ne louede [me] neuere to fere, Þat Merci my suster nul not here. c1420Chron. Vilod. 498 Whom shall y haue now to my ffer? c1440Partonope 129 Ye haue chose me to youre feere.
c. of inanimate things.
1593Southwell St. Peter's Compl. To Rdr., Licence my single penne to seeke a pheere. 1595― Poems, David's Peccavi i, Feares now are my pheares.
2. A consort; spouse; a husband or wife; † rarely nuptial fere, wedded fere. Also in phrases, to give, have, marry, take, wed to one's fere.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 93 Me buried heo [Sapphira] mid hire fere. a1300Cursor M. 26692 Adam..and eue his fere. c1330Arth. & Merl. 481 Fortiger for loue fin Hir tok to fere and to wiue. a1400Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) 208 With another then her feare We founde her doe amisse. c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 105 Þou shalt not desire þi neiȝboris feere. c1450Lonelich Grail lv. 212 To ȝowre owne brothir..My dowhter I schal ȝeven to his fere. c1550Adam Bell in Ritson Anc. Pop. P. (1791) 6 Two of them were single men, The third had a wedded fere. c1611Chapman Iliad xviii. 339 The nuptial fere Of famous Vulcan. 1612Two Noble Kinsmen v. ii, This anatomy Had by this young fair pheer a boy. a1765Sir Cawlire ii. in Child Ballads (1885) iii. lxi. 58/1 Knights and lordes they woed her both, Trusted to haue beene her feere. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. 111, Are these two all..That woman and her fleshless Pheere? 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. iii. i. 187 Paris..Took thee, the widow, as his fere.
b. Of animals: Mate.
a1547Surrey in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 218 Eche beast can chose hys fere according to his minde. 1589Greene Poems, Melicertus' Madrigal i, No turtle without fere. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. (1605) 152 If the Fisher haue surpriz'd her [the Mullet's] Pheere..She followeth. 1603Drayton Odes iii. 33 Each little Bird..Doth chuse her loved Pheere.
3. An equal.
a. Of a person: Peer; also in phrase, without (peer or) fere.
b. Of a thing: in phrase, fere for fere (Sc.), every way equal.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1149 Among her ferez þat watz so quyt! c1340Cursor M. 5144 (Trin.) Ar þei no knyȝtis ny knyȝtis fere. 1548Hall Chron. 181 b, Thynkyng hymself a kyng, without either peere or fere. 15..Knt. of Curtesy 460 A, noble Knight, withouten fere! 1636James Iter Lanc. (1845) 4 Fairies..of their feres good housewife praises winne. 1768Ross Helenore i. 11 For joining hands the just were feer for feer.
▪ II. † fere, n.2 Obs.
Forms: α. 3 fer, 3–7 fere, (4 south. vere), 5 Sc. feir, 4–7 feare.
[aphetic f. OE. ᵹefér neut. (:—*ᵹifôrjo(m), f. as prec.]
1. Companionship; chiefly concr. a body of companions, company, party.
a1300Cursor M. 20419 (Cott.) Lokes..þat na man of our fer bi-fore his mak latli chere. c1325Ibid. 24947 (Edin.) Wit al þair farnet and þair fer Þai com to land. c1340Ibid. 23208 (Trin.) Crist let vs neuer be in þat fere. c1400Destr. Troy 1132 With all the fere þat hym folowes.
2. In phrase in fere, i fere (often written as one word, and spelt y-): in company, together; in common. al in fere: all together, altogether.
c1205Lay. 27435 Twein kinges þere æuere weoren ifere. a1300Signa ante Jud. 117 in E.E.P. (1862) 11 Al þe see sal draw ifere. c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1217 She lykyd al infere, His persone, his aray, his loke, his chere. c1400Sowdone Bab. 119 Shippes shene, vij hundred were gadered al in fere. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. iv. 9 Gogmagog and corin undertake for to wrastlyn y fere. 1513Douglas æneis x. v. 15 All sammyn swam thai, hand in hand yfeir. 1563Mirr. Mag., Induct. lxxiv, Sighes and teares, sobs, shrykes, and all y fere. 1613W. Browne Sheph. Pipe Wks. 1772 III. 11 All th'eritage which..he me left, all in feere Leave I thee. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xxxv, Much they moraliz'd as thus yfere they yode.
¶b. G. Douglas uses the pl. form in rime-words.
1513Douglas æneis i. Pref. 251 All inferis. Ibid. ii. viii. 90 All infeiris. Ibid. x. vii. 628 All yferis.
▪ III. † fere, n.3 Obs.
[a. ON. fœ́ri:—neut. of OTeut. *fôrjo- fere a.]
Ability, power; health.
c1200Ormin 1251 Aȝȝ affterr þine fere. c1340Cursor M. 3829 (Fairf.) He was in gode fere, hale and sounde.
▪ IV. † fere, a. Obs. (after 15th c. only Sc.)
Forms: 2–9 fere, 3–5 fer, (3 feore, 4 feere). Sc. 4–6 feir, 8–9 fier, (9 fear).
[a. ON. fœ́rr (or possibly repr. OE. *fére) = OFris. fére:—OTeut. type *fôrjo-, f. *fôrâ (OE. fór, ME. fore n.) going, way, f. faran fare v.1]
Able to go, in health; hence gen. able, strong; sound, ‘whole’. Also in phrase whole and fere.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 25 Hal and fere and strong and stelewurðe. c1205Lay. 17618 Ȝif ich mai beon feore, ich þe cumen after sone. c1300Cursor M. 3829 (Cott.) He es bath hail and fere. 1375Barbour Bruce vi. 315 Thai thar lord fand haill and feir. a1400–50Alexander 4282 As fresche & as fere a[s] fisch quen he plays. c1440Bone Flor. 2006 The holy nonne..makyth the syke thus fere. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. li, Thay come haill and feir in thair bodyis to extreme age. 1784Burns Ep. to Davie ii, We're fit to win our daily bread, As lang's we're hale and fier. 1806A. Douglas Poems 22 There's Jenny, comely, fier, an tight. 1816Scott Antiq. xxvii, ‘I trust to find ye baith haill and fere.’
absol.a1300Cursor M. 20119 (Cott.) To fere and seke ai did scho bote.
▪ V. † fere, v.1 Obs.
Forms: inf. 1–2 féran (1 Northumb. fœ́ran), 2 feren, (fearen), 3 færen, south. væren. pa. tense 1 fér(e)de, 2–5 ferd(e, 4 south. verde, (2 feorde, foerde, 3 færde), 3–5 farde, 3–4 furde.
[OE. féran wk. vb., corresp. to OFris. fêra, OS. fôrian (Du. voeren) to carry, OHG. fuoren (MHG. vüeren, mod.G. führen to lead), ON. fœ́ra (Sw. föra, Da. före) to bring:—OTeut. *fôrjan, f. *fôra (OE. fôr, fore n. way), f. ablaut-root of faran, fare v.1
The OE. verb, unlike all the equivalent forms in other Teut. langs., was intransitive, having the sense ‘to take a journey, march, travel’. The difference in meaning between faran and féran even in OE. is hardly perceptible, and in ME. it wholly vanishes, fare being more and more restricted to the present-stem and fere to the pa. tense and pa. pple. See the remarks s.v. fare v.1]
1. intr. To travel, journey, go; = fare v.1 1, 2.
Beowulf 301 Gewiton him þa feran. c950Lindisf. Gosp. John iv. 3 Forleort iudeam & foerde eftersona in ðær mægð. c1175Lamb. Hom. 3 Redliche heo eou leted fere þer-mid. c1205Lay. 4471 His cnihtes mid him seoluen to þare sæ færden. a1225Leg. Kath. 5 Ah Constentin ferde..into Fronc londe. a1300Cursor M. 3958 (Cott.) Ful wrathli gains him he ferd. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 124 Þer schip ferd on the flode. a1400–50Alexander 5549 Sum ferd all on foure feete. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) xxxvii, Thro the forest as he ferd.
2. To proceed, go on, behave; = fare v.1 4; to deal with.
1154O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1132 Þa wiste þe king ð[at] he feorde mid suicdom. c1175Lamb. Hom. 103 Þenne mon..mid fikenunge fearð. a1300Cursor M. 5719 (Cott.) Þat folk sua wit þam ferd. c1300Beket 2076 And furde as men that wode were. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 410 Riȝt so ferde resoun bi the. c1440Generydes 4786 As a man beside hem self he farde. 1450Paston. Lett. No. 93 I. 125 Oon of the lewdeste of the shippe badde hym ley down hys hedde and he should be fair ferd wyth. c1450Lonelich Grail xlix. 123 Thus with Iosephe ferden they there wel falsly. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour xix. 218 The fairer that she is ferde with, the more ferdfulle she shuld be to displese.
b. To take place, happen; = fare v.1 6.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 538 So it ferde ouer al. c1300Beket 2143 As hit bi oure Louerd furde. c1350Will. Palerne 1921 Cairende ouer cuntreis as here cas ferde. c1440Boctus, Laud MS. 559. 3 b, Hee was wrothe that hit soo ferde.
3. = fare v.1 7, 8.
a1300Cursor M. 2850 (Cott.) Hir langed to see how þai fard. c1340Ibid. 23162 (Trin.) For ȝou ferde I neuer þe bet. c1350Will. Palerne 1497 He went wiȝtli to william to wite how he ferde. c1400Rom. Rose 499, I my silf so mery ferde. c1420Chron. Vilod. 540 Þat blessed virgyne hurre douȝter ryȝt well ferde. c1477Caxton Jason 18 She..demanded him how he..ferde.
4. Combined with advbs.: = fare v.1 III.
Beowulf 1632 Ferdon forð þonon. c900Bæda's Hist. i. viii. (1890) 42 Ferde he [Constantinus] forð on Breotone. a1300Cursor M. 11731 (Cott.) Forth þai ferd þair wai. c1350Will. Palerne 30 It..ferde fast aboute floures to gadere. 1352Minot Poems iv. 19 Furth he ferd into France. a1400–50Alexander 813 (Dublin MS.) Forth with eufestyus he ferd.
▪ VI. † fere, v.2 Obs.
Also 3 feir.
[aphet. form of affeir, effeir.]
intr. To fall by right, appertain, become, be proper or meet. Const. with dat.; also for, till, to. Chiefly impers.
a1300Cursor M. 21444 (Cott.) Þou sal haf broþer al þat þe fers. a1300E.E. Psalter lxiv. 2 [lxv. 1] Þe feres loft⁓sang, God, on-on, For to have in Syon. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Thomas 211 Richt wele it feris þe Seruand to kingis fore to be. a1455Houlate xxvii, The Papis armes at poynt to blason and beir As feris for a persewant. 1513Douglas æneis i. vi. 54 Honour..quhilk feris me nocht to haue.
▪ VII. † fere, v.3 Obs.
Also 7 feare.
[f. fere n.1]
a. To be a companion to; accompany.
b. To make companions of; unite.
c. To provide with a consort; to mate.
c1400Rom. Rose 5281 If bothe the hertis Love hath fered, Joy and woo they shulle departe. c1440Bone Flor. 2086 Allas that we came here, Thys false traytur for to fere. 1632Womens Rights 328, I..am like neuer to be feared, vnlesse some widdow be moued with compassion towards mee.
▪ VIII. fere
see feer a., fierce.
▪ IX. fere
obs. form of far, fear, feer, ferry v., fire.
▪ X. fere
var. of feir, Obs. Sc., appearance. |
