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provisions, stores
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  • Ðrítig ombra aláð, and ðreó hund hláfa . . . feówer weðras . . . sex gósfuglas . . . ðrítig leapera . . . sester fulne saltes . . . and hió forgifeð fífténe pund for ðý ðe mon ðás feorme ðý soel gelǽste,

    • C. D. i. 312, 5-18.
dead stock in contrast with live stock:
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  • Þú sweltan scealt mid feó and mid feorme

    morte morieris tu et omnia quae tua sunt

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    • Gen. 20, 7
      • ),
    • Gen. 2659
      • .

  • Hit

    (land)

    becwæð sé þe hit áhte swá swá hit his yldran mid feó and mid feore (feorme?) rihte begeáton,

    • Ll. Th. i. 184, 2
      • .

  • Ꝥ hé áðer oþþe feó oþþe feorme (freme, v. l.) þá wyrse sý

    that he be injured in respect to anything that is his,

    • 384, 24
      • .

  • Ǽhta lǽdan, feoh and feorme,

    • Gen. 1650
      • .
stores furnished to a person as his due:
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  • Ðá nam hé his feorme on Wuldahám, and on ðám óðran wolde

    he took the provision that was due to him in Wuldaham, and intended to do the same in the other places,

    • C. D. vi. 127, 21.
  • ¶ of provision due to the king.

    Cyninges feorm, cyning-feorm(q. v.):

    Þára mynsterháma hwelcne þe cyninges feorm tó belimpe,

    • Ll. Th. i. 60, 24
      • .

  • Fram twám mínra (Athelstan's) feorma

    (de duabus meis nihtfirmis, Lat. vers.)

    ágyfe mon áne ambra meles . . .,

    • 198, 6.

    Cf. trium annorum ad se (Offa) pertinentes pastiones, id est, vi. convivia,

    • C. D. i. 174, 3
      • .

    Erat in illo monasterio pastus unius noctis regi . . . et pastus novem noctium accipitrariis regis,

    • v. 159, 4. v. Sax. Engl. i. 294 sqq., ii. 58 sqq.
a feast, an entertainment
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  • Eallum ǽhtemannum gebyreð Midwintres feorm and Eástorfeorm,

    • Ll. Th. i. 436, 33
      • .

  • Feorma (farma, L.) giworden wæs

    cena facta,

    • Jn. R. 13, 2.

  • Tíd farmes

    hora caenae,

    • Lk. L. 14, 17
      • .

  • Tó feorme

    ad agapem,

    • An. Ox. 4834
      • .

  • Æt ánre feorme

    convivio,

    • Ors. 237, 4
      • .

  • Aman unþances cóm tó þǽre cwéne feorme,

    • Hml. A. 99, 247
      • .

  • Árás from ðǽr farma (feorme, R.)

    surgit a cena,

    • Jn. L. 13, 4
      • .

  • Færma,

    • 21, 20.

  • Ðonne ðú feorme (forme, v. l.) gierwe on ælmessan

    cum facis convivium,

    • Past. 323, 22
      • .

  • Hié þá miclan feorme þigedon Crístes þonces þe hié ǽr þigedon æt hiora diófolgildum deófla þonces

    magnificis ludis hic natalis annus a Christiano imperatore celebratus est,

    • Ors. 6, 21
      • ;
    • S. 272, 22
      • .

  • Man þǽre sunnan feorme worhte,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 494, 6
      • .

  • Feorme

    prandium,

    • Mt. 22, 4
      • .

  • Fearme

    cenam,

    • Mk. R. 6, 21
      • .

  • Farma

    convivium,

    • Lk. L. 5, 29
      • .

  • Ðá færmo

    nubtiae,

    • Mt. L. 22, 10
      • .

  • Hǽmdo ł feorme (færmo, L.),

    • Jn. R. 2, 1
      • .

  • Ðára farmana

    nubtiarum,

    • Jn. p. 1, 9
      • .

  • Farma,

    • p. 3, 12.

  • Æt feormum (farmum, L.)

    in cenis,

    • Mk. R. 12, 39
      • .
furnishing with food, entertainment.
Similar entries
v. flýman feorm in Dict. v. cum-, dæg-, gift-, niht-feorm.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “feorm.” 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/44777.

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