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geofon

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ocean, sea, flood
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  • Ic gewíte sécan gársecges grund; gifen bið gewréged,

      Rá. 3, 3.
  • Gársecg, geofon geótende,

      An. 393.
  • Geofon (

    the Red Sea

    ),
      Exod. 447.
  • On geofones staðe, 580.
  • Ymb geofenes stæð gearwe stódon sǽmearas,

      El. 227.
  • Ofer geofenes streám

    across the sea,

    1201.
  • Hwá áspyreð ðæt deófol of geofones holte, and hine gebringeð on Crístes cempena fæðmum?,

      Sal. K. 146, 27.
  • Þes bát glídeð on geofone,

      An. 498.
  • Storm oft holm gebringeð, geofen in grimmum sǽlum,

      Gn. Ex. 52.
a flood, deluge
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  • Flód ofslóh, gifen (

    Noah's flood

    ) geótende, giganta cyn,
      B. 1690.
  • Geofon (

    the water that had poured from the pillar

    ) swaðrode,
      An. 1587: 1626.
  • Duguð wearð áfyrhted þurh þæs flódes fǽr . . . geonge on geofene gúðrǽs fornam, 1533.
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[O. Sax. geƀan.]
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