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hleápan

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Wright's OE grammar
§5; §135; §325; §518;
In the last passage for 452 read 482, and add:
to run, go hastily or with violence, rush
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  • Hí gebundon þone bysceop be þám fótum on sumne fearr, and þone gegremedon ꝥ hé hleóp on unsméðe eorðan,

    • Shrn. 152, l
    • .
  • Hér Ródbert þæs cynges sunu hleóp fram his fæder,

    • Chr. 1079
    • ;
    • P. 213, 32
    • .
  • Hleópon (so in the [facsimile of the] MS. not hleówon) hornboran, hreópan friccan,

    • El. 54
    • .
  • Gif hé út hleápe . . . And gif mon þone hláford teó ꝥ hé be his rǽde út hleópe,

    • Ll. Th. i. 282, 2-5
    • .
to jump, spring
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  • Hé áwearp his hrægl him of and hleóp on ðone mere (cf. hé unscrýdde hine sylfne and scǽt intó ðám mere,

    • Hml. S. II. 211
    • ),
    • Shrn. 62, 9.
to leap on to a horse; hleápan úp to mount:
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v. hleápere; II.
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  • Hleóp

    ascendit (equum),

    • An. Ox. 2142
    • .
  • Þá hét ic þá hors gerwan and eóredmen hleápan úp

    imperaui equitibus ut ascen-derent equos

    • Nar. 21, 22
    • .
to spring up and down, jump about.
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v. hleápettan
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  • Hé geféng his swíðran, árǽrde hine upp, and hé hleóp sóna cunnigende his féðes hweðer hé cúðe gán

    (apprehensa manu ejus dextera, allevavit eum . . . Et exsiliens stetit, et ambulabat

    • Acts 3, 8
    • ),
    • Hml. S. 10, 32
    • .
of non-material things, where there is rapid extension,
to mount up at a bound
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  • Mín unriht mé hlýpð nú ofer heáfod

    iniquitates meae superposuerunt caput meum

    • Ps. Th. 37, 4
    • .
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v. oþ-hleápan.
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