Thar , v. impersonal, pres. [OE. thar, þarf, AS. þearf, infin.
þurfan to need; akin to
OHG. durfan, G. dürfen to be allowed, Icel. þurfa to need, Goth. þaúrban.] It needs; need. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. What thar thee reck or
care? Chaucer.
Thar (?), n.
(Zoöl.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small,
flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the
male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo. [Written
also thaar, and tahr.]
Quotes From Classical Literature on 'thar'You can hear pronunciation of the quotes if you click on  . The sound files tend to be pretty big.
 ( WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1884)
No, I won' t,-- thar , now, so! And it ain' t nothin',-- no!
And thar ' s nary to tell that you folks yer don' t know;
And it' s " Belle, tell us, do!" and it' s " Belle, is it true?"
And " Wot' s this yer yarn of the Major and you?"
Till I' m sick of it all,-- so I am, but I s' pose
Thet is nothin' to you. . . . Well, then, listen! yer goes!
servants obey yer masters." " Oh," replied Uncle Simon, " thar s more
in de Bible den dat, only Snyder never reads any other part to
us; I use to hear it read in Maryland, and thar was more den what
Snyder lets us hear." In the overseer' s house there was another
scene going on, and far different from what we have here described.
" A nasty, gossipy, catty hole, that Grass Valley!"
"Ellen, thar ' s goin' to be war-- a bloody war in the ole Tonto Basin,"
went on Sprague, seriously.
" War! . . . Between whom?"
" The Isbels an' their enemies. I reckon most people down thar , an'
miles along the stage- road.
" Well, you can settle a bet for us, I reckon. Bill Dacre thar
bet me five dollars and the drinks that a young gal we met at the
edge of the Carquinez Woods, dressed in a long brown duster and
half muffled up in a hood, was the daughter of Father Wynn of
Excelsior. I did not get a fair look at her, but it stands to
reason that a high- toned young lady like Nellie Wynn don' t go
the brush! No, sir, she played this yer camp for all it was worth,
year in and out, and we just gave ourselves away like speckled
idiots! and now she' s lyin' out thar in the bone yard, and keeps on
p'intin' the joke, and a-roarin' at us in marble."
Even the later citizens in Atherly felt an equal resentment against
her, but from different motives. That her drinking habits and her
powerful vocabulary were all the effect of her aristocratic
rider.
" You see," answered Jim gloomily, " thar ain' t a galoot in this yer
crowd ez knows jist WHAT' S in that hoss! And them ez suspecks
daren' t say! It wouldn' t do for to hev it let out that the Judge
hez a Morgan- Mexican plug that' s killed two men afore he got him,
and is bound to kill another afore he gets through! Why, on' y the
week afore we kem up to you, that thar hoss bolted with me at
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