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hwirfan

  • verb
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Take here hwerfan in Dict. , and add:
of motion,
to move about
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  • Ic hider and þider mé (

    reflex, dat.) hwyrfde (hwerfde, v. l. ),

      Bd. 5, 6 ; Sch. 576, 5.

  • Hwerfende

    errabilis, vertibilis

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 17.

  • Hwerbende

    errabiles

    ,
      107, 33.

  • Hwyrfende,

      29, 47,
to go to or from,
to return
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  • Hié eft hwyrfende wǽron tó heora húsum,

      Bl. H. 207, 30.
to revolve
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  • Þǽre eaxe ðe eall þes rodor on hwerfþ, Bt. 39, 3, ; F. 214, 21. ꝥ hweól hwertþ ymbúton, 39, 7 ; F. 220, 29. (3 a) reflex. :-- Be þínre hése heó hweorfð seó heofene, and ealla tungla heora rina gehealdað

    tuis legibus rotantur poli, cursus suos sidera peragunt

    ,
      Solil. H. 9, 13.
of action, conduct,
to proceed, go on
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  • Hwý þú ǽfre woldest ꝥ seó wyrd swá hwyrfan sceolde ? (

    cur tantas lubrica versat fortuna videa?

    ). Heó þreáþ þá unscildigan, and náuht ne þreáþ þám scildegum,
      Bt. 4; F. 8, 12.
of the operations of the mind
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  • Mé þincþ ꝥ þú hwerfest ymbúton sume wunderlice sprǽce,

      Bt. 35, 5 ; F. 164, 17.

  • Nú wé sculon eft hwierfan neár Róma þǽr wé hit ǽr forléton

    Romae ut ad id tempus redeam unde digressus sum

    ,
      Ors. 2, 5; S. 86, 13.
trans.
To turn, give direction to
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  • Arewan ongeán hwyrfde

    catapultas retorsit

    ,
      An. Ox, 4241.

  • Hié heora wǽpen hwyrfdon wiþ Bryttas,

      Bd. I. 15 ; Sch. 40, 8.
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v. tó-hwirfan; ongeán-hwirfende ; mis-hwirfed, níw-hwirfed.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hwirfan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/53596.

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