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tealt

  • adjective
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tealt, adj.
in a physical sense, unsteady
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  • Gif hí sculun néðan on nacan tealtum, and se brimhengest brídles ne gýmeþ

    (

    cf. The floating vessel ... Rode tilting o'er the waves,

    • Milton, P. L. xi. 747
    • ),
    • Runic pm. Kmbl. 343, 22;
    • Rún. 21.
in a figurative sense, unstable, not to be relied on, untrustworthy, precarious
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  • Hú lǽne ðis líf is, hú tealt,

    • Wulfst. 273, 7.
  • Tealte syndon eorðan welan,

    • 149, 8.
  • Tealte beóþ eorðan dreámas,

    • 264, 3.
  • Tealte getrýwða sindon mid mannum,

    • 82, 12: 129, 6: 159, 14.
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v.  un-tealt.
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