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á-drýgan

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Add: to dry up (lit. and fig.).
to extract the moisture from material
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  • Hé ðá miltan ádrígeð,

      Lch. i. 334, 24.

  • Gást unrót ádrígð (

    exsiccat

    ) bánu,
      Scint. 167, 11.

  • Hé ealle ðá costunga of his ágnum líchoman ádrígde

    omni illa tentatione carnis caruit,

      Gr. D. 190, 24.

  • Hit ádríg,

      Lch. i. 332, 26.
  • Ádríg tó duste, ii. 144, 1.

  • Genim ácmistel and ádríge,

      88, 5.

  • Ádríged on réce,

      216, 8.

  • Swá swá treówu swíður ádrýgde bióð on eorðan

    quo plus in infimis humor excoquitur,

      Past. 445, 3.
to dry up a fluid
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  • Ðú ádrýgdes (

    exsiccasti

    ) flódas,
      Ps. Srt. 73, 15.

  • Hé ðone Reádan Sǽ ádrígde,

      Ors. 1, 7; S. 38, 29.

  • Heortes horn hafað mægen ǽlcne wǽtan tó ádrígenne,

      Lch. i. 334, 3.
to dry up moisture on material,
wipe off
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  • Ádréið

    abstergit,

      Kent. Gl. 764.

  • Seó hand ðínre sprǽce ádrígde (

    tersit

    ) fram mé ðone tweón,
      Gr. D. 150, 25.

  • Hé ðǽre hýde giocðan of ádrýgde,

      Past. 71, 11.

  • Ádrýg horu

    absterge sordes,

      Hy. S. 23, 3.

  • Ǽlc mon ádrýge of óðerra monna móde ðone wénan be him ǽlces yfeles,

      Past. 451, 22.

  • Ðæt hé mæge ádrýggean (-drýgean, Hatt. MS.) (

    tergat

    ) of monna heortan ðæt fúles sié,
      74, 21.

  • Hát gefeormian mín blód and ðonon ádrýgan,

      Bl. H. 183, 27.
to dry material on which there is moisture,
wipe dry
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  • Se wísdóm ádrígde mínes módes eágan,

      Bt. 3, 1; F. 4, 27.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-drýgan.” 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/37526.

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