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ge-healdan

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to hold, keep, take care or
charge of
a person
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a flock (lit.
or fig.)
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a thing
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to guard, preserve, protect, save
a person
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a thing or place
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to hold, keep from getting away, detain
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to hold, support with the hand
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to have as one's own, be in possession of, have the enjoyment or
use of
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to keep, retain, not to lose
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to keep in existence or operation, maintain a quality, state, &c.,
exercise an action
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to keep inviolate, observe a law, faith, &c.
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to hold back, restrain from action
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to keep within bounds, prevent excess; gehealden
modest; continent, chaste
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to content, satisfy, pay
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to withhold from present use, reserve, lay up
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to hide, not to divulge, keep a secret
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to hold a faith, opinion, &c.,
accept as true
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to keep in proper order
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to provide for
the sustenance of, support
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-healdan.” 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/48240.

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