hart

(härt)

n. pl. harts or hart

A male deer, especially a male red deer over five years old.

[Middle English, from Old English heorot; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]

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hart

(hɑːt)

n, pl harts or hart

(Animals) the male of the deer, esp the red deer aged five years or more

[Old English heorot; related to Old Norse hjörtr, Old High German hiruz hart, Latin cervus stag, Lithuanian kárve cow; see horn]

Hart

(hɑːt)

1. (Biography) Lorenz. 1895–1943, US lyricist: collaborated with Richard Rodgers in writing musicals

2. (Biography) Moss. 1904–61, US dramatist: collaborated with George Kaufman on Broadway comedies and wrote libretti for musicals

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hart

(hɑrt)

n., pl. harts, (esp. collectively) hart.

a mature, fully antlered male European red deer.

[before 900; Middle English hert, Old English heorot, c. Old Saxon hirot, Old High German hir(u)z, Old Norse hjǫrtr; akin to Latin cervus stag]

Hart

(hɑrt)

n.

Lo•renz (ˈlɔr ənts, ˈloʊr-) 1895–1943, U.S. lyricist.

Hart

1. A stag.

2. Often, specifically a five-year-old or older male red deer.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Hart - United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961) Moss Hart
	2.	Hart - United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943) Lorenz Hart, Lorenz Milton Hart
	3.	hart - a male deer, especially an adult male red deer stag Cervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti, American elk, elk - common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Translations

Hirsch

cervo maschio

hart

[hɑːt] N (harts or hart (pl)) → ciervo m

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hart

n → Hirsch m

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The Hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noble figure he made there.

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When we add that a few boys in smock-frocks were lying asleep on heavy packages, wool-packs, and other articles that were scattered about on heaps of straw, we have described as fully as need be the general appearance of the yard of the White Hart Inn, High Street, Borough, on the particular morning in question.

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But my father were that good in his hart that he couldn't abear to be without us.

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The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Hart, from a curious legend of King Henry III's reign, in which the killing by a certain Thomas de la Lynd of a beautiful white hart which the king had run down and spared, was made the occasion of a heavy fine.

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"I travelled all night and got to the White Hart at eight o'clock this morning.

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The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.

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The principal quadrupeds that had been seen by the colonists in their various expeditions were the stag, fallow deer, hart, black and grizzly bear, antelope, ahsahta or bighorn, beaver, sea and river otter, muskrat, fox, wolf, and panther, the latter extremely rare.

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I'll hold you twenty marks that, by leave of Our Lady, I cause the best hart among them to die."

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George's education was confided to a neighbouring scholar and private pedagogue who "prepared young noblemen and gentlemen for the Universities, the senate, and the learned professions: whose system did not embrace the degrading corporal severities still practised at the ancient places of education, and in whose family the pupils would find the elegances of refined society and the confidence and affection of a home." It was in this way that the Reverend Lawrence Veal of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, and domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Bareacres, strove with Mrs.

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Tell them to kill two fine harts against to-morrow eve, for we shall have great company and lordly sport."

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harts. To bee sur if ever I ave sad any thing of that kine it as bin

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