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§129; §390; §563;
Add: a coal of fire
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  • Gloed

    carbo,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 12.
  • Gloede

    prunas,

      118, 18.
a live coal, coal of fire (lit. or fig.)
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  • Gléd

    carbo (torridus altaris ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 14.
  • Swá rícels byð þonne hit gífre gléda bærnað,

      Ps. Th. 140, 2.
  • Hí feallað on fýres gléde

    cadent super eos carbones,

      139, 10.
  • Stréie of glédon (

    carbonibus

    ) áhyrde,
      119, 4.
  • Licge ꝥ ísen uppan þám glédan,

      Ll. Th. i. 226, 27.
  • Se hláf wæs mid þám glédum (

    prunis) bewrigen . . . þá worhte hé Crístes róde tácen ongén þám glédum (þá glédu, v. l., contra prunas ),

      Gr. D. 87, 9-16.
  • Hé þone bisceop on ísenum bedde ástrehte and byrnenda gléda dyde under his nacode líc,

      Hml. S. 29, 242.
  • Giségun gloede (gloedi, L.) ásetede

    uiderunt prunas positas,

      Jn. R. 21, 9.
  • Gléda

    pruinas (prunas congregabis super caput ejus, Prov. 25, 22), Kent. Gl. 970. (1 a) in pl. a fire, æt þám glédum at the fire :-- Sum man sæt æt þám (his, v. l.) gledum (sedebat ad prunas) in his húse mid his wífe and mid his lytlan suna . . . ꝥ hé sǽte mid him æt þám glédan . . . se áwyrgda gást þone sunu áwearp in ðá glýda (on þá ylcan gléda, v. l. ),

      Gr. D. 75, 13-25.
  • Stódon ðá esnæs æt gloedum (

    ad prunas

    ),
      Jn. L. R. 18, 18.
a flame, a spark
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  • Hýðað wíde gífre gléde,

      Cri. 1045.
  • Gloetas and ðæccillas

    scintillae et lampades,

      Mt. p. 9, 20.
  • Him wiht ne sceód grim gléda níð, frécnan fýres,

      Dan. 465.
  • In þæs wylmes grund, . . . in gléda gripe,

      El. 1302: Jul. 391: Sal. 48.
fire, flame
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  • Fretan sceal frécne líg fǽgne monnan, . . . reád réðe gléd,

      Vy. 46.
  • Nú sceal gléd fretan wigena strengel,

      B. 3114.
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