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gleng

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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gleng, e; f.
Add: gleng, es; m.
ornament, decoration, adornment, glory
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  • Saga mé hwæt ðæs lifigendan mannes gleng sý. Ic ðé secge, ðæs deádan swát,

      Sal. K. p. 200, 9.

  • Glenge

    crustu, i. ornata (cf. crustu, i. ornatu

    frætwunge,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 8), An. Ox. 7, 370: 8, 371.

  • On mænigfealdre glencge ic glencyde mínne líchaman,

      Angl. xi. 113, 51.
pomp, splendour in appearance,
display
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  • Ðeáh þe wlance men him háton gewyrcan heora byrgene of marmanstáne and útan emfrætewian mid reádum golde, þeáhhwæðere se deáð hit eal tódǽlð: þonne bið seó gleng ágoten, and se þrym tóbrocen,

      Wlfst. 148, 22.

  • Se glencg,

      263, 8.

  • Ne cépð nán man deórwyrðra reáfa búton for ýdelum gylpe þæt hé sý tóforan óðrum mannum þurh his glencge geteald,

      Hml. Th. i. 328, 30.

  • Ic andette . . . ídel word . . . and ǽlcne glængc þe tó mínes líchaman unrǽde ǽfre belimpe,

      Ll. Th. ii. 262, 28.

  • Sigoriende mid glengan æþelan

    triumphans pompa nobili,

      Hy. S. 85, 9.

  • Tó woroldlican ídelan glengan,

      Ll. Th. i. 328, 9.

  • Mid dislicum glencgum

    stolidis (ornamentorum) pompis,

      An. Ox. 1217.

  • Glencgu

    pompas,

    63.

  • Ic ondette . . . unnyttes gylpes bígong and ídle glengas,

      Angl. xi. 98, 27.
an ornament
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  • Glencg

    monile,

      Germ. 396, 305.

  • Ǽresð alra glengea scolde scínan gold on his hrægle . . . Tóeácan ðǽm golde ealra glenga fyrmesð . . . se giem iacintus,

      Past. 85, 1-5.

  • Cume manna gehwilc tó circan búton golde and glæncgum,

      Wlfst. 181, 2.

  • Þæt folc álédon hira glenga

    deposuerunt ornatum suum,

      Ex. 33, 6.

  • Bróhte se cniht tó ðám mǽdene deórwurða gimmas and woruldlice glencga,

      Hml. S. 7, 22.

  • Menas, glencga crepundia, i. monilia, An. Ox. 538: Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 29. (Cf.

    crepundia, ornamenta,

      76, 9.)
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v. forlegis-gleng, weorold-gleng.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gleng.” 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/50928.

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