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to adorn with material ornaments
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  • Glensþ ( = glengst) comas (si tu te sumptuosius

    comas,

      Ald. 75, 5), An. Ox. 8, 332.

  • Glencaþ

    comunt i. ornant,

    11.

  • Hí glencgað heora wíf mid þám þe hí weófoda sceoldan,

      Ll. Th. ii. 328, 7.

  • On mænigfealdre glencge ic glencgde mínne líchoman,

      Angl. xi. 113, 52.

  • Manege mid oferrence glengdan hý sylfe,

      Wlfst. 46, 2.
to adorn, be an ornament to, be becoming to
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  • Ne glenget non decet (non

    decent

    stultum verba composita,
      Prov. 17, 7), Kent. Gl. 594.
to arrange gracefully.
of dressing the hair
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  • Geglencendlíce glencan

    delicate componere,

      An. Ox. 1203.
of arranging words
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  • Glengede

    composita,

      Kent. Gl. 595. (v. II.)
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v. ge-glengan; ofer-glenged, un-glenged.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “glengan.” 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/50929.

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