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hruse, l. hrúse,
Wright's OE grammar
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the ground.
as a surface
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  • Crungon hergas tó hrúsan,

      Ruin. 30.

  • Ðonne se forst tó hrúsan cymeð,

      Rä. 41, 55.

  • Hwǽr seó ród wunige under hrúsan,

      El. 625.

  • Se wínsele on hrúsan ne feól,

      B. 772.

  • Þonne ic hrúsan trede,

      Rä. 8, 1.

  • Hé hrycge sceal hrúsan sécan, 28, 11. (1 a)

    the floor

    of a subterranean place :-- Hwá wát on hwelcum hlǽwa Wélandes bán hrúsan þeccen?,
      Met. 10, 43
as a solid stratum
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  • Treów hrúsan fæst,

      Rún. 13. (2 a) as a
    place of burial or concealment :-- Hald þú, hrúse, eorla ǽhte, B. 2247.

  • Heard gripe hrúsan,

      Ruin. 8.

  • Se þeódsceaða heóld on hrúsan hordærna sum,

      B. 2279.

  • Þonne flǽsc onginneð hrúsan ceósan tó gebeddan,

      Rún. 29.
as suitable for cultivation,
soil, land
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  • Rén, hagal and snáw hrúsan leccað (cf. leccaþ þá eorþan, Bt. 39, 13; F. 234, 16) on wintres tíd; or þǽm eorðe onféhð eallum sǽdum, gedéð ꝥ hí grówað, Met. 29, 64. (3 a) as productive :-- Ic (

    a spear

    ) on wonge áweóx, wunode þǽr mec féddon hrúse and heofonwolcn,
      Rä. 72, 2.

  • Þonne God lǽteð hrúsan syllan bléda beornum,

      Rún. 12.
the world we live in.
dry land as opposed to sea
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  • Ic holmmægne biþeaht hrúsan styrge,

      Rä. 3, 9.
earth as opposed to the material heaven
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  • Sé ðe heofon worhte, hrúsan swylce,

      Ps. Th. 120, 2: 133, 4.
the material of which the surface of the ground is composed, earth
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  • Hrúsan bið heardra,

      Rä. 81, 30.
earth as one of the four elements
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  • Ligeð him behindan hefig hrúsan dǽl (cf. sió hefige eorþe sit þǽr niþere, Bt. 39, 13; F. 234, 12), þeáh hit (

    fire

    ) hwílan ǽr eorðe sió cealde oninnan hire heóld,
      Met. 29, 53.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hruse.” 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/53295.

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