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gamen

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Wright's OE grammar
§315; §349;
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amusement, mirth
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  • Hé sceal þonan geómor hweorfan, þám bið gomenes wana þe þá earfeða dreogeð on sárgum sefan,

      Gú. 1328.
  • Ðú dwollíce leofast swylce þé tó gamenes. Hml. A. 6, 141.
  • Dyde ic mé tó gomene ganetes hleóðor,

      Scef. 20.
  • Hý sceolon habban him gomen on borde,

      Gn. Ex. 183.
  • Hé álegde gamen and gleódreám,

      B. 3021.
jest, game (in to make
game of)
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  • Ic sceal habban mé ðæt tó gamene subsannabo, Past. 249, l. Þæt hí him tó gamene gedydon

    what they made a jest of

    ,
      Hml. Th. ii. 254, 4.
  • Þæt gé eów tó gamene feónda áfillað swá fela swá gé reccað. Wlfst. 132, 20.
a game, pastime
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  • Sum bið swíðsnel, hafað searolic gomen (

    dancing and tumbling?

    cf. sealting), gleódǽda gife for gumþegnum, leóht and leoðu-wác,
      Crä. 82.
  • Gamena angin

    ludorum gesticulatio

    ,
      An. Ox. 2871.
  • Sleglicum gamena gamene

    scenico ludorum joco

    , 2886.
  • Man geswíce freólsdagum hǽðenra leóþa and deófles gamena,

      Ll. Th. ii. 248, 12.
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