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sound made by the voice, a cry
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  • Gif se sácerd bið ungerád ðæs láreówdórnes, hwæt forstent his gehlýd

    sacerdos si praedicationis est nescins, quam clamoris vocem daturus est praeco mutus?

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      Past. 91, 25.
  • I a. in an unfavourable sense.
clamour, noise, din
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  • Wearð micel gehlýd hlihhendra deófla. Hml. S. 31, 810.

  • Simpronius mid swíðlicum gehlýde hét hí gefeccan,

      7, 81.

  • Hé clypode mid gehlýde,

      36, 362.

  • Mid wédendum and egislicum gehlýde

    bachanti et furibundo strepitu (i. clamore ),

      An. Ox. 3811.
excessive speech, garrulity
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  • Wordig gehlýd

    uerbosa garrulitas

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      An. Ox. 1417 : 1612.
of inopportune speech
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  • Rǽde hé swá, þæt hé óþre mid gehlýde ne geunstille,

      R. Ben. 73, 14.
violent speech, outcry
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  • Betere wé áhreddon ús sylfe of ðissere burhware gehlýde,

      Hml. S. 23, 202 : 22, 187.
  • Ðá hǽðenan clypodon mid gehlýde . . . 'Beo se árleása ofelagen, ' 22, 160: 23, 612.

  • Grymetende mid gehlýde,

      7, 242.
noise made by people in excited action, tumult, disturbance, din of business
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  • Swégende gehlýd gedréfde

    tumultuous (secularium) strepitus obturbabat

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      An. Ox. 5432.

  • Ðá bróðru þá mid gehlýde wurpon wæter on ꝥ fýr swylce hit tó ádwǽscenne

    cum jaciendo aquam, et ignem quasi extinguen-do perstreperent

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      Gr. D. 123, 29.

  • Hé mid his áþenedre honda gestilleþ þá gerúxl and ꝥ gehlýd eallra manna extensa manu omnium tumultus sedat, 265, 13. II a. a tumult, uproar, disturbance :-- Næs ná on freólsdæge þe lǽs þæs folces gehlýd wurde

    non in die festo ne forte tumultus fieret populi

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      Mk. 14, 2.
the noise made by an animal
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  • Eosola gehlýd

    ruditus asinorum

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      Gr. D. 185, 3.
the noise made with things
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  • Ðá gehýrde hé gelýd þám gelícost swylce þǽra muneca setl fǽrlíce feóllon ealle tógedere, and wæs ǽfre swá leng swá hlúddre. Ðá æfter langum fyrste geswác ꝥ gehlýd. Vis. Lfc. 47-50.

  • On þǽre ylcan nihte wæs geworden mycel gehlýd (

    strepitus

    ) on þám hrófe þǽre cirican, efne swylce hwylc man urne þǽr geond dwoliende. Þá áweóx and bræclade mára swég . . . swylce eall seó cyrice wǽre . . . tóworpen fram þám grundweallum,
      Gr. D. 236, 10.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hlýd.” 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/48347.

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