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fillan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§47; §65; §170; §178; §530; §643;
Take here passages given under fyllan, and add:
to cause to fall to the ground, to pull down, throw down,
lit.
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  • Hé cwealde Crístne men, circan fylde,

    • Jul. 5
    • .
  • Hé sum deófolgild bræc and fylde . . . hié mid heora handum þá ídlan gyld fyldon,

    • Bl. H. 223, 15, 21
    • .
  • Hét ic ceorfan ðá bearwas and þone wudu fyllan

    jubeo cedi nemus.

    • Nar. 12, 19.
to make bellows collapse by driving the air out (?):
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  • Ic wiht (bellows) geseah . . . þegn folgade . . . and micel hæfde geféred þǽr hit felde

    (when he made the swollen bellows subside ?),

    • Ra. 38, 4
    • .
fig.
to be a stumbling-block to
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  • Gif honde þíne fælleþ þec,

    • Mt. R. 18, 8
    • .
to cast into:
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  • Hé ús on þæt fýr fylde,

    • Gen. 747
    • .
to fell, destroy
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  • Þonne ic hiora fýnd fylde and hýnde

    ad nihilum inimicos eorum humiliassem.

    • Ps. Th. 80, 13.
  • Ic fylde mid folmum fæder Enoses,

    • Gen. 1096
    • .
  • Húðe áhreddan and hæleð fyllan,

    • 2113.
to put down error, &c.:
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  • Hé deófulgild tódráf and gedwolan fylde,

    • An. 1690
    • .
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v. wind-filled
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v.  fyllan fællan.
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