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blǽd

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
blǽd, m.
Wright's OE grammar
§57; §345; §387; §563;
Add:: ; f. (v. Bd. S. 569, 8).
a blowing, blast of wind
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  • Swíðe mycel windes blǽd,

    • Bl. H. 199, 21
    • ;
    • Hml. S. 23, 72
    • .
  • Blǽde

    flamine,

    • Germ. 400, 496.
  • Se wind him stód ongeán mid ormǽtum blǽde,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 378, 16
    • :
    • i. 502, 19
    • .
  • Hé ðone windes blǽd áweg flígde,

    • ii. 140, 26.
  • Zephirus blǽwð westan, and þurh his blǽð (blǽd, v. l.) ácuciað ealle blǽdu,

    • Lch. iii. 274, 20
    • .
  • Blǽdas

    flabra, i. flatus ventorum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 24:

    fla(b)ra,

    • 37, 21
    • .
  • Blǽdas (-es, MS.)

    auras,

    • An. Ox. 50, 4
    • .
  • Tóworpen þurh windes blǽda (blǽde, blǽdum, v. ll.),

    • Lch. iii. 276, 16.
figurative:
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  • Blǽdum

    fasti vel superbiae flatibus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 43.
breath, breathing
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  • Blǽde

    anhelitu,

    • An. Ox. 48, 5.
  • Hí (the seals) mid heora blǽde his leoma beðedon,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 138, 12
    • .
  • Ðurh ðæs dracan blǽd seó menigu wearð geuntrumod,

    • 294, 22
    • .
  • Ðone líflican blǽd

    the breath of life,

    • 92, 12
    • .
  • Blǽdas

    spiracula,

    • An. Ox. 4864:

    flabra (chelydri),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 59
    • .
spirit
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  • Hálgostes blǽd onbláwende

    sacrosancti flatus (i. spiritus) inspirans,

    • An. Ox. 1527
    • .
inspiration
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  • Of gerýnelicum blǽde

    (spiramine)

    word Godes geworden flǽsc,

    • Hy. S. 43, 36
    • .
  • Se Hálga Gást mid his blǽde onǽlde eorðlicra manna heortan,

    • Hml. Th. i. 323, 13.
of fire,
flame, blaze;
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cf. blǽst, bláwan, I. 4
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  • Blaeed, bléd, blęd

    flamma,

    • Txts. 64, 445
    • .
  • Fýr

    ignis,

    lég

    flamma,

    blǽd

    flamina (flamma ?) (in a list 'de igne'),

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 13
    • .
  • Biscophádas oððe blǽd

    flamina,

    • ii. 35, 68
    • .
prosperity
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  • Gif him þince ꝥ his hús byrnð, micel blǽd and torhtnes him byð tóweard,

    • Lch. iii. 170, 10
    • .
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. blead.
]
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Cf. bláwan.
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v.  blæst.
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  • blǽd, n.