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fill

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
fill, fiell, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§387;
a fall from a higher to a lower point, or from an erect position
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  • Engel hét þæt treów ceorfan and þá wildeór onweg fleón . . . þonne his fyll cóme,

    • Dan. 513
    • .
  • Fæll húses

    ruina domus,

    • Mt. L. 7, 27
    • .
  • Faell,

    • Lk. L. 6, 49
    • .
  • Feallo torres

    ruiná torris,

    • p. 8, 3
    • .
  • Fylle

    lapsu,

    • An. Ox. 26, 44
    • .
  • Geswell þe wyrþ of fylle oððe of slege,

    • Lch. ii. 6, 27
    • .
  • Hé on fylle wearð

    he slipped and fell,

    • B. 1544.
  • Hé næs ácweald ðurh ðám heálican fylle

    (the fall from the pinnacle of the temple),

    • Hml. Th. ii. 300, 20
    • .
  • Mid þý fylle (hryre, v. l. ruina) ðæs wáges,

    • Gr. D. 125
    • ;
    • 5.
  • Þá getimbru wǽron gehrorene gelómlíce mid fyllum

    (ruinis),

    • 134, 12.
  • Se druncena . . . þurh fyllas bewylewud

    ebriosus . . . per precipitia deuolutus,

    • Scint. 107, 14
    • .
figurative
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  • Hé gǽð on ðone weg, ac hé nát on hwæt hé gǽð, ac hé wirð suíðe raðe on fielle

    (citius corruit),

    • Past. 287, 17
    • .
fall in battle, death, destruction
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  • Manna fyll and eác horsa,

    • Chr. 1056
    • ;
    • P. 186, 33
    • .
  • Fyll and feorhcwealm,

    • Gen. 1103
    • :
    • 2062
    • :
    • B. 2912
    • .
  • Micel here for þæs cynges fielle fleáh,

    • Ors. 3, 7
    • ;
    • S. 118, 7
    • :
    • 3, JO
    • ;
    • S. 138, 13
    • .
  • Mid heora twégea fielle

    duorum morte,

    • 6, 36
    • ;
    • S. 294, 6
    • .
  • On his fylle,

    • Hml. S. 26, 161
    • .
  • Líf edníwe, feorh æfter fylle,

    • Ph. 371
    • .
  • Eal gesceaft cwíðdon cyninges fyll,

    • Kr. 56
    • .
a fall in a moral sense
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  • Hí ðone fiell fleóð ðǽre synne,

    • Past. 399, 17
    • .
Similar entries
v. fǽr-fill; ge-fill; and see fell, fyl, fyll in Dict. for other passages
Linked entries
v.  fyll fiell.
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