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§7; §128; §278; §295; §296;
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the outside upper covering of a building, ceiling of a room, upper surface of a cave, &c.
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  • Hróf

    lacuna[r], Txts. 76, 109: lacunar, Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 55: camara, 17, 16; tholus (tholus

    tectum de petris sine ligno,
      Ld. Gl. H. 40, 19), 122, 30.

  • Wæs þæt bold tóbrocen swíðe . . . hróf ána genæs ealles ansund,

      B. 999.

  • Of þám stáne þǽre ciricean hrófes,

      Bl. H. 209, 1.

  • Gebrosnad is hús under hrófe,

      Cri. 14.

  • On heáhsetlum hrófe getenge

    celsos solil culmine,

      Met. 25, 5.

  • Gif mon on níwne weall unádrúgodne micelne hróf and hefigne on sett,

      Past. 383, 32.

  • Hí openodon þone hróf (

    tectum

    ),
      Mk. 2, 4.

  • Hé geseah steápne hróf golde fáhne,

      B. 926.

  • Hrófas

    tecta,

      An. Ox. 2257.

  • Hrófum oððe bígelsum arcibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 79. I a. used of the covering of a pit where some one is hiding :-- Hrófes tecta et tigilli (cisternae latebram . . . quae lymphis vacua praestabat

    tecta tigilli,

      Ald. 1648), Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 40.
  • I b. in phrases that denote entering, or being in, a house, chamber :---

  • Hrófe tigillo (in proprii domatis

    tigillo

    conflagrasse memoratur,
      Ald. 38, 22), An. Ox. 2, 110.

  • Biðon tuoege in hrófe ánum,

      Lk. L. R. 17, 34.

  • Under þám fýrenan hrófe

    in the fiery furnace,

      Dan. 239.

  • Snyredon ætsomne under Heorotes hróf,

      B. 403.
  • Under geápne hróf, 836.

  • Eall under hróf gefór

    all entered the ark,

      Gen. 1360.

  • Ne wyrðe am ꝥte under hróf mínum inngáe,

      Lk. L. 7, 6.

  • Róf, Mt. L. 8, 8. I c.

    house-top

    as the most public place to proclaim anything :-- Ðætte in eárum gihérdest and sprecende gé wérun in cotum ábodad bið on hrófum,
      Lk. R. L. 12, 3.

  • Ofer hrófa, Mt. L. 10, 27. I d. where a part represents the whole(?) a house v. hrófleás; II. II. something which in form or function may be compared to the covering of a house :-- Helmes hróf

    the covering which the helmet forms,

      B. 1030.

  • Beorges hróf

    the roof which the hill makes for the cave in its side,

    2755.

  • Wætera hrófas the waves that curled their heads over those waiting over the bottom of the Red Sea, Exod. 571. ¶ used of the sky, clouds, &c., considered as the

    roof

    of the world :-- Under rodores hrófe,
      Hy. 5, 5.

  • Ofer ðone heán hróf þæs heofones,

      Bt. 36, 2; F. 174, 5.

  • Oþ wolcna hróf,

      Exod. 298.

  • Hyrstedne hróf hálgum tunglum,

      Gen. 656.

  • Ofer worulde hróf,

      Dan. 407.
the roof of the mouth
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  • Hrófes and gómena

    palati et faucium,

      Germ. 392, 6.
the top of anything,
the highest point
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  • Ic eów mæg gereccan hwæt se hróf is eallra gesǽlþa

    ostendam tibi summae cardinem felicitatis,

      Bt. 11, 2; F. 34, 7.

  • Hrófe

    apice,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 56.

  • Þe;áh man gesette án brád ísen þell ofer þæs fýres hróf,

      Wlfst. 147, 3.

  • Cwóm wiht ofer wealles hróf,

      Rä. 30, 7.
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v. first-hróf, múþ-hróf.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hróf.” 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/53281.

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