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fyll, fyllu(-o).
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fill, full supply of food, &c.
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  • Manducat unumquodque animal in mart alterum. Et dicunt quod vii minoribus saturantur maiores, ut

    vii fiscas sélaes fyllu, sifu sélas hronaes fyllu, sifu hronas hualaes fyllu,
      An. Ox. 54, 1.
  • Dó ꝥ wós and þá wyrte on wín, drince þonne . . . symle án ful tó fylles (

    always one cup as a full dose,

    v. tó;
5), Lch. i. 82, 14.
with idea of excess,
repletion, satiety
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  • Fyll and druncennyss

    saturitas et ebrietas,

      Scint. 106, 4.
  • Þæt þǽr nǽfre seó fyl be fullum ne weorðe

    ut non usque ad satietatem (oferfylle, R. Ben. I. 72, 12) bibamus,

      R. Ben. 65, 2.
  • Sió wamb bið áðened mid fylle for giéfernesse

    venter ingluvie extenditur,

      Past. 311, 12.
  • Fæste hé nú ongeán ꝥ hé ǽr þurh fylle unriht gefremode,

      Ll. Th. ii. 284, 2.
  • v. ofer-, untíd-, wǽl-fyll(-u, -o).
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