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ymb-habban

  • verb [ weak ]
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ymb-habban, p. -hæfde.
to surround, encompass
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  • Ymbhæfdan

    cingebant,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 73.
  • Mid ðý unmǽtan weorode ymbhæfd optimo vallatus exercitu, Bd. 3, 18 ; S. 546, 31 : 2, 9; S. 511, 25 note. Emhæfd

    circumseptus

    (densis agminibus.
      Ald. 3), Anglia xiii. 27, 5.
  • Ispania land is eall mid fleóte útan ymbhæfd, ge eác binnan ymbhæfd ofer ða land ǽgþer ge of ðám gársecge ge of ðam Wendelsǽ

    Hispania circumfusione oceani Tyrrhenique pelagi pene insula efficitur,

      Ors. 1, I ; Swt. 24, 1-3.
to, contain
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  • Beféhð ł emhæfð

    circumgirat, circuit, complectitur,

      Hpt. Gl. 422, 70.
  • Embhæfþ

    continet, i. habet, tenet,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 16.
  • Seó séleste gesǽlþ ðe ða óþra gesǽljia ealle oninnan him gegaderaþ and hí útan ymbhæfþ,

      Bt. 24, I ; Fox 80, 21.
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