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hrǽcan

  • verb
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Add: to reach (v. N. E. D. s. v.).
intrans.
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  • Hrę̄ceo

    excreo,

      An. Ox. 53, 40.
  • Wiþ þæs magan springe, þonne þurh múð bitere hrǽcð oþþe bealcet, oððe him on þám magan súgeð,

      Lch. ii. 192, 3.
  • Þám men þe . . . on magan untrum sié oþþe bitere hrǽce,

      62, 16.
  • Gif heora ǽnegum for unhǽle hráca of breóste derige, hrǽce bæftan him (

    post dorsum flegma proiciat

    ), and þæt fortrede,
      Chrd. 23, 8.
  • I a. with dat. of what is expectorated :---
trans.
To spit blood, &c.,
    Lch. i. 142, 1 (in Dict.). Swá hwæt swá man
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v. á-hrǽcan.
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