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ge-reord, speech.
Add: [The word seems feminine in Bd. l,
    23; Sch. 49, 8.
]
voice, language, speech, words
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  • Ne mage wé áwrítan ealle his wundra on ðisum scortan cwyde mid cúðum gereorde,

      Hml. Th. ii. 514, 30.

  • Word mín onfóh . . . ; ongit míne clypunga cúðum gereorde verba mea percipe; intellige clamorem meum, Ps. Ben. 5, 1. I a. the voice of a trumpet, notes of a horn :-- On gehreorde ł on stefne béman

    in voce tubae,

      Ps. L. 46, 6.

  • Þonne ic (a horn) winde sceal swelgan of sumes bósme, hwílum ic gereordum rincas laðige tó wíne, hwilum sceat stefne mínre flýman feóndsceaðan

    when I must swallow wind from somebody's lungs, sometimes with my notes I summon men to the feast, sometimes with my voice I put foes to flight,

      Rä. 15, 16.
a language, tongue
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  • Þurh ꝥ gereord

    (Hebrew)

    þe ǽrest Cóm on middanearde,
      Angl. vii. 40, 387.

  • Þá eallreordau þeóde, þára ðe hí furðon þá gereorde (furðum gereord, v. l.) ne cúðan

    barbaram gentem, cuius ne linguam quidem nossent,

      Bd. l, 23; Sch. 49, 8.

  • In Englisc gereorde (on Englisce reorde,

    v. l.

    ),
      4, 24; Sch. 481, 12.

  • Heora ǽlc oncneów his ágen gereord,

      Hml. Th. i. 314, 15.

  • Wǽron swá fela gereord swá ðǽr manna wǽron,

      22, 23 : 318, 22: ii. 582, 5 : Angl. vii. 40, 382.

  • On þám dæge wurdon tðdǽlede manna gereordu; and ǽr wæs eall weoruld sprecende on án gereord, and nú synd gereord twá and hundseofontig,

      Wlfst. 211, 17-20.

  • Swá micel ungewiss on þeóda gereordum,

      Ors. 3, 9 ; S. 136, 26.

  • Hí cúðon ealle woruldlice gereord,

      Hml. Th. i. 298, 7: ii. 202, 20: Ll. Th. ii. 370, 27.
  • v. Læden-gereord, scop-gereord.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-reord.” 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/49351.

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