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of falling or striking (lit. or fig. )
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  • Hé sume ác ástáh, . . . and hé hearde feóll

    (cf. in arborem ascendens deciderat deorsum, et contrito corpore spiritum exhalavit,

    • Vit. Cuth. c. 34
    • ),
    • Hml. Th. ii. 150, 32
    • .
  • Ic wæs hearde cnyssed

    impulsus.

    • Ps. Th. 117, 13
    • .
of seizing, pressing (lit. or fig.)
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  • (a sea-beast)

    wearð mid eoforspreotum hearde genearwod,

    • B. 1438
    • .
  • Mid weres egsan hearde genearwod,

    • Gen. 921
    • .
  • Hearde genyrwad, gebunden bealorápum,

    • Cri. 364
    • .
  • Þé tó heortan hearde grípeð ádl unlíðe,

    • Gen. 936
    • .
of binding, fastening,
firmly, tightly
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  • Helm on heáfod ásette, and þone full hearde geband,

    • Gen. 444
    • .
  • Unrótnesse gerǽped, hearde gehæfted (cf. gerǽpte mid þǽre unrótnesse, and swá gehæfte.

    • Bt. 37, 1
    • ;
    • F. 186, 22
    • ),
    • Met. 25, 49
    • .
  • Wítum gebunden, hearde gehæfted,

    • Jud. 116
    • .
  • Þurh þá ic hongade hearde gefæstnad,

    • Cri. 1457
    • .
    [The last three passages might be taken under IV]
in a way that involves pain
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  • Hrinon hearmtánas hearde and sáre drihta bearnum,

    • Gen. 992
    • .
  • Þæs wráðe ongeald, hearde mid híwum, hægstealda wynn,

    • 1862
    • :
    • Dan. 598.
  • Him þæt hearde wearð forgolden,

    • Jud. 216.
  • Wé þæs hearde sceoldon bídan in bendum,

    • Hö. 87
    • .
  • Him bonena hand hearde gesceóde,

    • An. 18
    • .
  • Wyrd bið wended hearde . . . and hwæðre him mæg wíssefa wyrda gehwylce gemetigian,

    • Sal. 435
    • .
  • Þeáh þe ꝥ wíte hwǽne heardor and strangor dón sý

    cum paulo districtius agitur,

    • Bd. 1, 27
    • ;
    • Sch. 66, 13
    • .
with intensive force,
with verbs implying pain, injury, &c.
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  • Ús hearde sceód fǽmne þurh forman, gylt,

    • Gen. 997
    • .
  • Gé sceolon hearde ádreógan wíte,

    • Cri. 1514
    • .
  • Mé is heorte and flǽsc hearde geteórad,

    • Ps. Th. 72, 21
    • .
  • Hwílum mé bryne stígeð, hyge heortan neáh hearde (hædre. v. l.) wealleð,

    • Sal. 62
    • .
of painful physical sensation, e. g. thirst,
  • Hml. Th. ii. 256, 31 (in Dict.).
of painful, violent, intense emotion
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  • (St. Martin)

    cóm tó húse hearde gedréfed (cf. Martinus cóm micclum dreórig,

    • Hml. S. 31, 213
    • ),
    • Hml. Th. ii. 504, 25
    • .
  • Ne wé cunnun þurh hwæt þú þus hearde ús eorre wurde,

    • El. 400
    • .
  • Lengað hine hearde, þynceð þæt sý þria xxx þúsend wintra ǽr hé dómdæges dyn gehýre,

    • Sal. 270
    • :
    • Seel. 155
    • .
  • Hearde ondrǽdan,

    • Cri. 1018
    • .
  • Hé hiene geeáðmédde tó þǽm folce þe hé him þǽr heardost ondréd,

    • Ors. 3, 7
    • ;
    • S. 112, 33
    • .
  • Þonne hine þæs hlísan heardost lysteð,

    • Met. 10, 14
    • .
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