higre

higre (plural higres)

1. Obsolete form of eagre.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 7 p. 101:

     ...when the Higre takes her,
     How Fever-like the sicknes shakes her;

• “higre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.