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a corner, an angle,
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v. healhiht
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  • Ǽlc wág bið gebiéged twiefeald on ðǽm heale

    duplex semper est in angulis paries,

    • Past. 245, 13.

  • Gemétte hé hine hleonian on þám hale his cyrcan wið þám weófode

    invenit eum recumbentem in angulo oratorii sui contra altare,

    • Guth. Gr. 163, 50
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  • Hé gefeall him in ánan heale and . . . slǽp,

    • Vis. Lfc. 37
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a retired or secret place, cave, closet, recess
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  • Oð ðá ýtemestan helle heala[s?]

    to the most remote of hell's recesses

    ad inferni nouissima,

    • Ps. L. fol. 193 a, 5
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  • Swá hwelp leóna eardiende on halum

    (in abditis),

    • Ps. Spl. 16, 13
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  • On þýstrum healum (scræfum, Dóm. L. 139) þissere worulde

    tenebrosis in antris,

    • Wlfst. 138, 1
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  • Healum

    cubilibus,

    • Germ. 402, 54
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a bay:
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  • Strénæs hale (alch, halch, v. ll.)

    quod interpretatur sinus fari,

    • Txts. 140, 210
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  • Streánes halh,

    • 200
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  • In streánæs halæ (hęlę, hale, v. ll. ),

    • 147, 378
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the word occurs not infrequently in the charters, and in the single instance where it appears to be explained it seems to mean a stony slope:
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  • In quoddam petrosum clivum et ex eo

    Baldwines healh

    appellatur,

    • Txts. 427, 8.
qualified by an adj.
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  • On þone sídan healh; of þám sídan heale á be þám héhhylte,

    • C. D. B. iii. 517, 36
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with gen., or as second part of a compound.
gen. of person
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  • Æt Iddes hale,

    • C. D. i. 315, 22
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  • On Oddan heal; of Oddan heale,

    • v. 270, 8.

  • On Beocces heal,

    • vi. 94, 15.

  • In Puttan ealh,

    • C. D. iii. 383, 20
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compounded with names of animals
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  • On nédderheal; of nédderheale,

    • C. D. v. 270, 11
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    • 281, 33
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  • On calfhealas,

    • iii. 385, 31.

  • On horshealgæt,

    • vi. 94, 14.
gen. or cpd. of plant-growth
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  • On bærheal, of bærheale,

    • C. D. B. ii. 247, 7
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  • Tó hǽðfeldheale,

    • C. D. iii. 131, 8.

  • On braccon heal; of brachan heale,

    • C. D. v. 277, 17
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  • Tó rischeale; of hrischeale,
    • iii. 79, 9.

  • On hrischalh; of hrischalh,

    • 460, 15
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  • Tó ceaggon heale,

    • v. 262, 8.

  • On brómhalas; of brómhalan,

    • iii. 81, 27.
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v. wír-heálh.
gen. of thing, or uncertain
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  • Tó cuntan heale,

    • C. D. B. ii. 246, 33
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  • Innan crypeles heale,

    • 374, 12
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  • On farsthalh; of forsthalh,

    • C. D. iii. 460, 18
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  • On bioton halh; of bioton hale,

    • 24.

  • Tó curdan heale,

    • v. 207, 33.

  • On stenges healh, of stenges heale,

    • C. D. B. iii. 49, 28
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  • On scæccan halh,

    • C. D. iii. 463, 14
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  • Innan cucan healas,

    • 450, 3
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  • Andlang bróces on swyllan healas; of ðan healan,

    • vi. 2, 12
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the word occurs also as the first part of compounds:
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  • On halhford,

    • C. D. iii. 439, 4
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    • 442, 31
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  • Ond long healhtúnes gemǽres,

    • 436, 27
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  • Æt healhtúne,

    • 294, 21
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  • Æt healtúne,

    • vi. 184, 14
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    • 198, 1
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  • Andlang eá tó healhwere,

    • v. 392, 33.

  • Of ðǽre syrfan tó healwícum,

    • 262, 14
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Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. hale a corner.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “healh.” 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/51997.

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