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galan
/ɣalan /*
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galan
. Add: (I) of human speech, (a) in poetical or passionate expression :-- Se geonga ongann geómran stefne gehæfted for herige hearmleóð galan, An. 1129 : 1344. Sorhleóð galan to lament, Kr. 67 : Cri. 623. Gehyrde heó hearm galan (tell his woes) helle deófol . . . ' Wá mé forworhtum . . . , ' Jul. 629. (b) in incantation :-- Ic galdor-wordum gól, Reim. 24. Þá drýas mid langum onsangum hí gólon on (hyre on gólon, v. l.), oð þ̵ se deófol of hire út eóde diutius incantationi-bus agere malefici moliebantur, ut diabolus exkret, Gr. D. 73, 27. Galdor galende cantando (rumpitur anguis), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 66: 19, 6. (2) of the ery of a bird :-- Hrefen uppe gól, El. 52. Siððan þú gehýrde galan geomorne geác on bearwe, Bo. 22. (3) of a trumpet. Cf. singan :-- Hié bearhtm ongeáton gúðhorn galan, B. 1432. [v. N. E. D. gale.] v. ge-galan.
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GALAN
; part. galende, ic gale, ðú gælest, gælst, he gæleþ, gælþ, pl. galaþ, p. gól, pl. gólon; pp. galen To sing, enchant, call; cănĕre, incantāre, insŏnāre, clāmāre :-- Seó ne gehérþ stemne galendra, and átterwyrhtan galendes wíslíce quæ non exaudiet vōcem incantantium, et venēfĭci incantantis săpienter, Ps. Lamb. 57, 6. Sorh-leóþ gæleþ he sings a sad lay, Beo. Th. 4912; B. 2460. Se wísdóm gól gyd wisdom sung a lay, Bt. Met. Fox 7, 3; Met. 7, 2. Wíf fyrd-leóþ gólon [MS. galan] the women sang a martial song, Cd. 171; Th.
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