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Hace, Hais, a. Also: hays, hes. [Northern ME. hays (1483), hase (a 1340), midl. and southern hoos, hos, OE. hás, ON. hás-. Cf. Hers a.] Hoarse, in sound, or of voice. a1500 Henr. Fab. 2806.
The mous beheld unto hir fronsit face,. … Hir hingand browis, and hir voce sa hace Id. Test. Cress. 338; Ib. 445.
Thy voice sa cleir [I make] unplesand hoir and hace a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1007.
I … sall nocht ceis to cry, quhill I worth hais Ib. 1035.
Thai knychtis him dang, quhill he was hais 1513 Doug. iii. Prol. 21.
Quha … Chide quhil thar hedis ryfe, and hals worth hays [R. hace] Ib. ix. iii. 109.
Eik the ryver brayt with hays sound 1540 Lynd. Sat. 315.
Sister, howbeit that I am hais [B. hes]. I am content to beir a bais [B. bes] a1585 Maitl. Q. lxix. 31.
Two lustie hairtis … , crying with voces rauk and hace, ‘Keip reull [etc.]’
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