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gamen
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gamen
. Add: (1) amusement, mirth :-- 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. (2) jest, game (in to make game of) :-- 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. (3) a game, pastime :-- 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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GAMEN
, gomen, es; n. GAME, joy, pleasure, mirth, sport, pastime; jŏcus, oblectāmentum, gaudium, jūbĭlum, lætĭtia, lūdus :-- Gamen eft astáh pastime rose again, Beo. Th. 2325; B. 1160. Wynsum gamen a pleasant game; săles, Ælfc. Gl. 16; Som. 58, 67; Wrt. Voc. 21, 54. Næs ðæt hérlíc dǽd, ðæt hine swelces gamenes gilpan lyste that was not a glorious deed, that he should wish to boast of such sport, Bt. Met. Fox 9, 37; Met. 9, 19. Him to gamene for his sport, 9, 17; Met. 9, 9 : 9, 91; Met. 9, 46.
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