. Substitute: (1) to grow dark (of a stormy sky) :-- Tódæg stearm, fágas for ðon unrótlic heofon hodie tempestas, rutilat enim triste coelum, Mt. L. 16, 3. (2) to vary :-- Swá hit nú fágað, Freán eald geweorc þætte winnende wiðerweard gesceaft fæste sibbe forð anhealdað (cf. swá hí hit fágiaþ þ̵ . . . , Bt. 21 ; F. 74, 13) quod mundus stabili fide concordes variat vices, quod pugnantia semina foedus perpetuum tenent, Met. 11, 40. Ðæt fágas quod variat, Mt. p. 1, 11. Betwih him fágas ł fágegas inter se variant, p. 1, 2. Ánfealde wíse bið witena gehwylcum weorðlicre micle þonne hé his wísan fágige tó swíðe, Ll. Th. ii. 318, 40. v. ge-fágod, and cf. fágettan.