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cwelan
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cwelan
. Add :-- Hí libbað óðrum monnum and cwelað him selfum vivunt aliis et sibi moriuntur, Past. 449, 19. Þú scealt ǽrest óðerne geseón drincan and ðǽrrihte cwelan, Hml. Th. i. 72, 15. Þ̵ spere him eóde þurh út, and hé feóll cwelende, Hml. S. 12, 55. Lífes lǽcedómes forwirnan ðǽm cwelendum monnum, Past. 377, 6. [v. N. E. D. quele.] v. be-cwelan.
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CWELAN
, ic cwele, ðú cwilst, he cwelþ, cwilþ, cwylþ, pl. cwelaþ; p. cwæl, pl. cwælon; pp. cwolen To die; mori :-- Cwele ic I die, Exon. 125a; Th. 482, 2; Rä. 66, 1. Swá swá fixas cwelaþ gyf hí of wætere beóþ, swá eác cwelþ [cwylþ MSS. R. L.] ǽlc eorþlíc líchama gyf he byþ ðære lyfte bedǽled as fishes die if they are out of water, so also every earthly body dies if it be deprived of the air, Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. popl. science 17, 9-11; Lchdm. iii. 272, 25, and note 36. [Laym. quelen to die: O.
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