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teár

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
teár, ( = teahor), teór, tæher, teher, tehher, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§70; §172; §255; §278; §298; §329;
A tear.
a drop of water from the eye,
caused by emotion, generally by grief
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  • Teár

    flemen, flentium humor,

    • Wülck. Gl. 240, 13:

    lacryma,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 43, 7.

  • Teáras

    lacrime,

    • 282, 55.

  • Sealtes pund, ðanon him ( Adam ) wǽron ða teáras sealte,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 180, 16.

  • Hruron him teáras,

    • Beo. Th. 3749;
    • B. 1872.

  • Nalles for torne teáras feóllon,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 2266;
    • El. 1134.

  • Pund saltes, of ðon sindon salto tehero,

    • Rtl. 192, 15.

  • Mid teára ágotennysse,

    • Lchdm. iii. 428, 10.

  • Mid teára gytum,

    • Blickl. Homl. 61, 20.

  • Eágan gefyllede mid teárum,

    • 189, 1.

  • Wépende mid teárum,

    • 151, 20: Bd. 3, 14;
    • S. 541, 3.

  • Teárum mǽnan,

    • Exon. Th. 285, 10;
    • Jul. 285.

  • Teárum geótan,

    • 95, 34;
    • Cri. 1567.

  • Heó ongan mid hyre teárum (tæherum ł teárum, Lind.) hys fét þweán,

      Lk. Skt. 7, 38.

  • Teárum ł tehrum,

    • Lind. 7, 44.

  • Mid teherum (teórum,

    • Rush.
      • ),
    • Mk. Skt. Lind. 9, 24.

  • Wépende wéregum teárum,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 118;
    • An. 59.

  • Wráðum teárum,

    • Ps. Th. 59, 11.

  • Tornlícum teárum,

    • 125, 5.

  • Sárige teáras,

    • 55, 7.

  • Teáras geótan

    to shed tears,

    • Bd. 4, 28;
    • S. 606, 14: Exon. Th. 11, 18;
    • Cri. 173.
in plural, used for the feeling of which the tears are a sign, grief, affliction
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  • :-- On deópnysse wópes and teóra

    profunditate fletus et lacrimarum,

    • Scint. 47, 4.

  • Ðú fédest ús teára hláfe, and ús drincan gifest deorcum teárum,

    • Ps. Th. 79, 5.

  • Heó is fulneáh deád for teárum and for unrótnesse,

    • Bt. 19;
    • Fox 28, 30.

  • Eua bær teáras on hire innoþe, Maria brohte ðone écan gefeán eallum middangearde,

    • Blickl. Homl. 3, 12.

  • Tehhero,

    • Rtl. 40, 35.
caused by weakness. v. tíran
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  • Ðeós eáhsealf mæg wiþ ǽlces cynnes broc on eágon ... wiþ tér,

    • Lchdm. iii. 292, 2.

  • Lǽcedómas wið eallum tiédernessum eágena ... wið eágna teárum,

    • ii. 2, 8.

  • Wið eágena teára (-e, -as?),

    • iii. 44, 29.
a tearlike drop
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  • Ðá wearð beám monig blódigum teárum birunnen ... sæp wearð tó swáte,

    • Exon. Th. 72, 20;
    • Cri. 1175.
that which drops or exudes, e.g. honey from a comb
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  • :-- Balsames teár

    opobalsamum,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 33, 51.

  • Swá þicce swá huniges teár

    of the consistency of honey that has dropped from the comb,

    • Lchdm. ii. 74, 4.

  • Genim balsami and huniges teáres emmicel,

    • 28, 10, 4: 108, 17.

  • Gegadriende swá swá beón hunigcamb teáres

    colligentes uti apes favu[m] nectaris,

    • Anglia xiii. 368, 46.

  • Þynceþ þegna gehwylcum huniges bíbreád healfe ðý swetre, gif hé hwéne ǽr huniges teáre bitres onbyrgeþ,

    • Met. 12, 10.

  • Meng wið huniges teáre,

    • Lchdm. iii. 46, 7.

  • Nim huniges teár and merces sǽd ... mæng wið ðone teár,

    • 4, 16
[
O. Frs. tár:
O. H. Ger. zaher:
Icel. tár;
n.]
Similar entries
v. bryne-, hunig-teár; teagor.
Linked entries
v.  tæher teagor teárig teher.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “teár.” 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/30247.

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