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on-flyge

  • noun [ masculine ]
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on-flyge, es; m.
Infectious disease, disease which, as it were, flies at people
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  • Ðú miht wið áttre and wið onflyge,

      Lchdm. iii. 32, 2, 16, 30.
  • v. preceding word and ongeflogen; and cf. Icel. á-flog, flying at a person, fighting.
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v.  flyge flygen.
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  • on-flyge, n.