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blæse

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
blæse, blase, an; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§404;
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BLAZE, flame; ardor, flamma. v. bǽl-blase.
that which makes a blaze,-
A torch, lamp; fax, facula, lampas = λαμπάs
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  • Blæse

    fax,

      Greg. Dial. 2, 8: Glos. Prudent. Recd. 143, 33.
  • Iudas com ðyder mid leóhtfatum, and mid blasum, and mid wǽpnum

    Iudas venit illuc cum laternis, et facibus, et armis,

      Jn. Bos. 18, 3.
  • Blæsum

    faculis,

    Mone
      B. 3487.
  • Blase

    lampas, Ælfc. Gl. 30; Som. 61, 54; Wrt. Voc. 26, 53. [M. H. Ger. blas, n. fax, lampas. ]

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v.  blase blysa.
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  • blæse, n.