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up-spring

  • noun [ masculine ]
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up-spring, es; m.
an upspringing, rising of a heavenly body,
coming of day or night
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  • Upspryng

    ortus (solis ),

      Ps. Spl. 103, 23.

  • Fram ðære sunnan upspringes anginne

    a solis ortus cardine,

      Hymn. Surt. 50, 2.
  • Fram ðære sunnan upspringe, Anglia viii. 317, 10.

  • Up-sprince,

      Ps. Spl. 49, 2.

  • Eásterne wind,

    subsolanus

    geháten, for ðan ðe hé blǽwð fram ðære sunnan upspringe,
      Lchdm. iii. 274, 15.

  • Nihte of upspringe

    noctis exortu,

      Hymn. Surt. 2, 20.

  • Ná manega dagas, ac án, se nát nǽnne upspring ne náne geendunge,

      Homl. Th. i. 490, 18.

  • Þurh ðæs steorran upspring,

      108, 5.
a rising of water, breaking forth
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  • On upspri[n]c

    (diluvii) inruptionem,

    Anglia xiii.
      32, 124.
birth
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  • Hé gestrýnde Cainan. Æfter ðes upspringe (

    post ejus ortum

    ) hé leofode eahtahundgeáre and fífténe geár,
      Gen. 5, 10.
what springs up
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  • Lígloccode upspringas

    flammicomos ortus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 10.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “up-spring.” 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/34083.

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