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on-feng

  • noun [ masculine ]
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on-feng, es; m. [v. fón (on)].
laying hold of, seizing
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  • Be cirliscre fǽmnan onfeuge. Gif mon on cirliscre fǽmnan breóst gefó,

      L. Alf. pol. 11; Th. i. 68, 13.
  • Be nunnena onfenge (andfencgum,

      MS. B.: anfenge, MS. H.), 18; Th. i. 72, 7.
  • Be þeófes onfenge æt þiéfþe,

      L. In. 28; Th. i. 120, 4.
  • Secg wundaþ beorna gehwylcne ðe him ǽnigne onféng gedéþ

    sedge cuts every one that lays hold of it,

    Runic pm. 15 ;
      Kmbl. 342, 14.
taking, with the idea of wrongful taking
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  • Be wuda onfenge (andfenge,

      MS. H.: anfenge, MS. B.) bútan leáfe, L. In. 44; Th. i. 130, 1.
  • Be unáliéfedes mæstennes onfenge,

      49; Th. i. 132, 11.
defence, protection (cf. and-fenga)
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  • Wǽron ða hálgan on onfenge manna sáulum,

      Blickl. Homl. 209, 29.
attack, onset, assault
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  • Wurdon hié on ðam onfenge forhte, and on fleám numen,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2679 ; An. 1341.
  • Hé hine scilde wið onfengom earmra gǽsta,

      Exon. Th. 126, 24; Gú. 376: 133, 15; Gú. 490.
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v. an-feng.
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v.  and-feng on-fang.
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