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of persons.
in a general sense,
a band, company:
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  • Se eádmóda heáp

    (the apostles),

    • Hml. Th. i. 318, 13
      • .

  • Þǽr wæs preósta heáp, micel muneca ðreát,

    • Chr. 973
      • ;
    • P. 118, 12
      • .

  • Hí mid þý heápe helle sécað, fleógað mid þám feóndum,

    • Dóm. 17
      • .

  • Hé

    (Peter)

    ána spræc for ealne ðone heáp,

    • Hml. Th. i. 394, 1
      • .

  • His þone gecorenan heáp

    electos suos,

    • Ps. Th. 104, 38
      • .

  • Hellwarena heáp,

    • Cri. 731
      • .

  • Leófra heáp,

    • El. 1206
      • .

  • Hálige heápas

    the multitudes of saints,

    • Wlfst. 190, 3
      • .

  • Án engla þreát. . . , heápa wyn,

    • Hö. 18.

  • Iunge heápas

    inuestes (puerorum) cateruas i. multitudines,

    • An. Ox. 2877
      • :
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 44, 40, 41
      • .
of a regulated company, one under discipline.
ecclesiastical.
the clergy.
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Cf. preóst-heáp
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  • Betwux middeweardum heópe

    inter medios cleros,

    • Ps. L. 67, 14
      • .
a choir
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  • Heápum

    classibus

      (v.
    • Ald. 35, 28
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 58
      • .
secular,
an army, a host
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  • Heáp

    (the host of the Huns)

    wæs gescyrted, láðra lindwered; lythwón becwóm Húna herges hám eft þanon,

    • El. 141
      • .

  • Of þám heápe fleág giellende gár,

    • Víd. 127
      • :
    • Exod. 192
      • .
a division of an army, a troop, company:
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  • Heáp

    cuneus (cf. cuneus

    getrimmed féða,

    • i. 18, 31
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 24

  • Heápum

    maniplis

      (v.
    • Ald. 191, 6
      • ),
    • 95, 12; 54, 51
      • .

  • Féþena heápum

    peditum turmis, i. agminibus,

    • An. Ox. 827.

  • Heora ǽgðer hæfde his folc on þrím heápum

    cohortes triplici ordine disposuit,

    • Ors. 5, 12
      • ;
    • S. 242, 3
      • .

  • Hæfde wuldres beám werud gelæded, hálige heápas,

    • Exod. 568.
an (armed) retinue:
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  • Ic and mínra eorla gedryht, þes hearda heáp,

    • B. 432,

  • Elene heápe gecoste lindwígendra land gesóhte,

    • El. 269.
a crew
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  • Heápum

    agminibus (remigantum),

    • An. Ox. 5, 5
      • .
of other living things
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  • Fiþerbǽre heápas

    pennigeras (volucrum) turmas,

    • An. Ox. 1566
      • .

  • Þurh heápas

    per turmas

      (
    • Prov. 30, 27
      • ),
    • Kent. Gl. 1109
      • .
of inanimate objects or of material
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  • Heáp

    strues,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 18
      • .
a collection of objects
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  • Heáp

    congeries (canonum,

      v.
    • Mt. p. 4, 3
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 71, 48
      • :
    • 17, 42
      • .

  • Weartene heáp

    satiriasis,

    • i. 20, 9
      • .

  • Þǽr wæs wlitig weoroda heap,

    • An. 872
      • .

  • Áwríteþ hé on his wǽpne wællnota heáp,

    • Sal. 161
      • .

  • Ætýwdon monige heápas sweartra lígea (swearte heápas þára líga, v. l.)

    apparent crebri flammarum tetrarum globi,

    • Bd. 5, 12
      • ;
    • Sch. 618, 16
      • .

  • Þá ylcan heápas þára fýra

    idem globi ignium,

    • 619, 5
      • .
a raised mass of material
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  • In heáp bið gesamnod

    conprehendatur,

    • Wrt. Voc
      • :
    • ii. 58, 56
      • .

  • On heáp

    in cumulum (turgescens pontus in cumulum creverit,

    • Ald. 34, 26
      • ),
    • An. Ox. 7, 163
      • .
Grammar
heáp, in the phrase on heápe.
of persons,
in company, in a body, together
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  • Þæt feórðe cyn fyrmest eóde, wigan on heápe,

    • Exod. 311
      • .

  • Nealles him on heápe handgesteallan ymbe gestódon,

      B. 2596.
[
Þa þe uerde wes isomne of ælche moncunne, þa heo weoren þer on hepe an hunddred þusende, Laym. 28292.
v. N. E. D. on heap.
]
of things
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  • Gewíteð mid þý wuldre on westrodor tungaol faran on heápe

    the sun and its glory together depart journeying to the western heaven,

    • Sch. 69
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “heáp.” 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/52045.

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