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fýran

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
fýran, fýrian; p. de, ede
To furrow, cut with a ploughshare (lit. and fig.)
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  • Fýreð obliquat (ferri stimulus. . . sulcos

    obliquat

    ad instar aratri,
      Ald. 263, 12.
  • The passage occurs in a riddle, 'De pugillaribus'),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 67.
  • Ꝥ scer tungan úre fýrian (printed scyrian, but see An. Ox. 2492 note) ná durre eorþan heortan fremedre

    ut uomer linguae nostrae proscindere non audeat terram cordis alieni,

      Scint. 124, 5.
  • Ongeán fírigende hand

    manus resulcans, iterum aperiens,

      An. Ox. 46, 49.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. fur[h]en sulcare.]
Similar entries
v. ge-fýran (-ian); -fýrede, fúrian.
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