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  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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§5; §51; §124; §172; §188; §268; §343;
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as a unit of time-measurement,
in the case of (approximately) exact measurement, the number of years being given
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  • Þá wæs syxte geár Constantínes cáserdómes,

      El. 7.

  • Ánes geáres cild oððe lamb

    anniculus

    ,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 287, 11.

  • Wé ealne þysne geár lifdon mid úres líchoman willan,

      Bl. H. 35, 37.

  • Án cométa ofer ealne geár sceán,

      Hml. ii. 300, 32.

  • Se here þǽr sæt .i. geár,

      Chr. 869; P. 70, 4.

  • Þǽr wǽron gehealdene heora líc án geár and seofan mónaþ,

      Bl. H. 193, 13.

  • Þreó geár,

      215, 36.

  • Sume tén geár,

      Bt. 38, 1; F. 194, 7.

  • Ymb xiii geár,

      Gen. 2302.
of indefinite periods of time
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  • Hé feala geára lifde,

      Bl. H. 219, 2 : Bt. 18, 3; F. 66, 18.
  • Wintra fela . . . geára mengeo. Gen. 1726.

  • Geára gongum

    in the course of time

    ,
      Cri. 1036: Jul. 693.

  • Æfter feáwum geárum,

      Bl. H. 99, 8.

  • Æfter geárum,

      El. 1265.

  • Mænig gér, Bt. 29, l; F. 102, 21 note. (2 a) the years of a person's life :-- Geáras míne

    anni mei

    ,
      Ps. L. 30, II.
    . and heora geára gancg, Ps. Th. 77, 32.
as a chronological unit,
for the purposes of the calendar
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  • Be ðæs geáres tídum.

    Annus Solaris

    hæfð . . . twelf mónðas, and ꝥ gér hæfð nigon þúsend tída and seofon hund tída and syx and syxtig,
      Angl. viii. 320, 19.

  • Ðǽre sunnan geár is ꝥ heó beyrne þone miclan circul

    zodiacum

    and gecume under ǽlc þǽra twelf tácna,
      Lch. iii. 244, 20.

  • Heóld þæt Ebreisce folc ðone forman geáres dægon lenctenlicere emnihte, Hml. Th. i. 100, I. Tó geáres dæge

    on New Year's day

    ,
      Chr. 1096 ; P. 232, 17.

  • Þæs geáres

    during the year

      871, 871 ; P. 72, 15.

  • Nú tó geáre

    this year

    ,
      Angl. viii. 327, 10: 329, 36.
  • On þǽm geáre bið þreó hund daga and fíf and syxtig daga. Bl. H. 35, 22.

  • Is se mǽsta dǽl ágangen, efne nigon hund wintra and .lxxi. on þýs geáre,

      119, 2.

  • Wæs se winter þý geáre grim,

      213, 31.

  • Perseus wæs ealne þone geár Rómáne swencende,

      Ors. 4, ll; S. 208, 13 : 3, 5 ; S. 106, 10.

  • Þá sylfan tíd síde herigeas habbað foreweard geár. Men. 6. ¶ used of the time occupied by a revolution of the moon :-- Ðæs mónan geár hæfð seofon and twéntig daga and eahta tída. On ðám fyrste hé underyrnð ealle ðá twelf tácna þe seó sunne undergǽð twelf mónað . . . þis is þæs mónan geár, ac his mónað is máre,

      Lch. iii. 246, 24-248, 15.
for the purposes of calculation in dealing with that which recurs regularly
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  • Æt gáres cépinge

    annuis nundinis

    ,
      C. D. iv. 209, 20. ꝥ
  • Him tó móse sceal gegangan geára gehwylce . . . þriá þreóténo þúsend. Sal. 288.
the year as made up of the seasons
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  • Be þæs monnes mihtum sceal mon þá lǽcedómas sellan . . . and hú geáres hit sié (

    according to what time of year it may be

    ),
      Lch. ii. 238, 22.

  • God biddan ꝥ hé him forgéfe ðone geár siblice tíd and smyltelico gewidra and genihtsume wæstmas and heora líchoman trymnysse,

      Shrn. 74, n. III a.

  • Brengþ eorþe ǽlcne westm ǽlce geáre,

      39, 13 ; F. 234, 14.

  • Gif hit gebyrað on geáre (if it happen some year) þæt náðer ne byð . . . ne æceren , ne bóc ne oðer mæsten, Nap. 10, 28. III b.

    the spring season

    :-- Þæt geár mót brengan blósman,
      Bt. 7, 3; F. 20, 22.

  • Gér byð gumena hyht, þonne God lǽteð hrúsan syllan beorhte bléda beornum,

      Rún. 12.

  • Wæs folde geblówen, geácas geár budon,

      Gú. 716.
with respect to productivity of the ground, a (good or bad)
year
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  • Æfter cóm gód gér (geár,

    v. l.

    ) and wæstmberende,
      Bd. 4, 13 ; Sch. 419, 12.

  • Hærfest hæleðum bringeð géres wæstmas,

      Gn. C. 9.
the name of the Runic letter g. See Rún. 12
above,
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v. gebann-geár.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “geár.” 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/47078.

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