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on-sǽlan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§654;
to untie, unfasten
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  • Onsǽl meoto sigehréð secgum,

      Beo. Th. 983; B. 489.
  • Ðonne geméte gyt eoselan gesǽlede and hire folan; onsǽlaþ hié,

      Blickl. Homl. 69, 36.
  • Onsaelid

    desolutus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 80.
  • Hæft wæs onsǽled,

      Cd. Th. 215, 15; Exod. 583.
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