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fláh
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This might be just a supplemental entry substituting part of an entry in the Main Volume.
Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
fláh
. Substitute : Hostile, fell, cruel :-- Flách infestus, Wrt. Voc. ii. no, 78. Þonne þæt gecnáweð fláh feónd gemáh . . . hé him feorgbona þurh slíðen searo weorþeð, Wal. 39. Fláh máh flíteþ, Reim. 62. Wið fláne feónd werigean, Exod. 237. [If the word agrees in meaning as well as in form with Icel. flár (hygyja flátt to think false) in one or two of the passages it might be translated by treacherous, crafty.]
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fláh
; adj. Insidious, artful, deceitful, fraudulent; subdŏlus, fraudŭlentus, infestus :-- Ðonne ðæt gecnáweþ fláh feónd gemáh when the deceitful impious fiend knows that, Exon. 97a; Th. 362, 19; Wal. 39.
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