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gár-secg
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gár-secg
. Add: I. ocean, sea as opposed to land or air :-- Sǽ mare vel aequor, gársecg oceanus, Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 64. Folde . . . , gársecg, Gen. 117. Ealne middangeard yrnbféran swá gársecg (oceanus) beligeð, Nar. 20, 15. Swá swá lyft and lagu land ymbclyppað, gársecg embegyrt gumena ríce, Met. 9, 41. Gársecg fandað hwæðer ác hæbbe æðele treówe, Rún. 25. Þú gársecges grundas geworhtes, Hy. 10, 7. Gár-secges gæst (the whale), Wal. 29. On gársecge oceano, Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 68. Seó ðridde India líð tó ðám micclum gársecge . . . hæfð on óðere sídan ðone grimlican gársecg, Hml. Th. i. 454, 13-15. Hé gesette þone gársecg on his goldhorde, Ps. Th. 32, 6. Þone wídgyllan gársecg. Hml. A. 3, 53: Ph. 289: An. 371. II. a particular part of the general body of water, an ocean :-- Se gársecg þe man hǽt Brittan-isca . . . on óðre healfe þæs gársecges earme is Brittannia, Ors. 1, 1; S. 22, 24. Oð ðone gársecg usque ad oceanum Aeihiopicum, S. 26, 10, 16, 24, 26. v. eást-, súþ-, út-gársecg; and secg sea.
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gár-secg
, -sæcg, es; m. [gár a spear, secg man]. I. a spear-man, the ocean; hŏmo jăcŭlo armātus, oceănus. The myth of an armed man, - a spear-man is employed by the Anglo-Saxons as a term to denote the Ocean, and has some analogy to the personification of Neptune holding his trident. Spears were placed in the hands of the images of heathen gods, as mentioned by Justin. - Per ea adhuc tempŏra rēges hastas pro diadēmăte habēbant, quas Græci sceptra dixēre.
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