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a head-man, a person of high position or rank:
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  • Híredmanna gehwilc sille pænig tó ælmessan . . . and heáfodmen teódian,

      Wlfst. 181, 17.
  • Hé sende tó Scotlande, and bæd ðá heófodmenn (ealdormenn maiores natu,

      Bd. 3, 3; Sch. 199, 6), Hml. S. 26, 49.
a person high in office
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  • Se heáfodman þæs gehergodan folces hine (

    Ezechiel

    ) ácwealde,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 9, 41.
  • Æt nýxtan næs nán heáfodman ꝥ fyrde gaderian wolde,

      Chr. 1010; P. 140, 30.
  • Ozias heora heáfodmann (

    princeps;

    governor of the city),
      Hml. A. 107, 156.
  • Hí hine lǽddon tó heora heáfodmannum (

    duxerunt ad Caiapham principem sacerdotum, ubi scribae et seniores convenerant,

      Mt. 26, 57), 75, 47, 70. II a.
  • Þára heáuodmanna naman wǽran Ingware and Ubba,

      Chr. 870; P. 71, n. 6.
  • Mann sceolde forðian út scipu, and setton Raulf eorl and Oddan eorl tó heáfodmannum þǽrtó, 1052 ; P. 177, 10.
  • Hé gesette þá heáfodmenn tó gehealdenne ꝥ folc (

    captains of the people, i. Macc. 5, 18), Hml. S. 25, 403. ¶ heáfdes-mann. Cf. Icel. höfuðs-maðr :-- Cóman twá hund scypa, þǽron wǽron heáfdesmenn Cnut and Hácon, Chr. 1076; P. 211, 37. II a α the head, captain of a band :-- ' Alǽdað mé tó . . . eówerne ealdor.' Hig (the robbers )

    clipodon þone cniht him tó þe hira heáfodman wæs,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 18, 19.
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