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heolstor, [In the first passage perhaps hrúse might be read for hrúsan and heolstre be dat. (inst.), as in El. 1082 þá þe in foldan deópe bedolfen sindon, heolstre behýded. Or possibly (?) a form heolstre exists alongside heolstor. v. Germ. 399, 447 infra, and cf. eówestre (?).]
Wright's OE grammar
§48; §92;
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  • Helostr, heolstr

    secessus,

    • Txts. 94, 901
    • .
  • Heolstre

    latebra,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 18
    • .
  • Heolstre, dígelnesse

    latibulo, i. tenebrositate (taciturnitatis)

    • An. Ox. 3354
    • .
  • Heolster

    latebram,

    • 3289.
  • Hé sette ðeóstru heolstur

    (latibulum)

    his,

    • Ps. Srt. 17, 12
    • .
  • Þé

    (Satan)

    se ælmihtiga gehnǽgde, and (on?, and on?) heolstor besceáf,

    • An. 1193
    • .
  • Helustras, heolstras

    recessus,

    • Txts. 92, 867
    • .
  • Hiolstra

    latebrarum,

    • An. Ox. 2052
    • .
  • Holstrum (heolstrum,

    • Hpt. Gl. 476, 9)

    latebra, loca occulta,

    • 2968.
  • Of díglum dimhofum ł heolstrum

    obstrusis latibulis,

    • Hpt. Gl. 405, 61
    • .
  • Of heolstrum

    de recessibus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 81. 10
    • :
    • 26, 51
    • .
  • Of heolhstrum, of díglum

    de recessibus, i. de occultis vel de secretis,

    • 139, 5
    • .
  • Nán mon Godes mihte forflíhð on nánum heolstrum heofenan oððe eorðan oþþe sǽ ðriddan,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 146, 31
    • .
  • Hleostrum

    bibulis buccis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 126, 6
    • .
  • Bláce stódon scíre leóman

    (the brilliant light from the pillar of fire)

    . . . neowle nihtscuwan ne mihton heolstor áhýdan

    the shades of night could not hide the secret places of the earth because of the light from the pillar of fire,

    • Exod. 115
    • .
  • Betwyx clúdige heollstru

    inter recessus scrupeos,

    • Germ. 399, 447.
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