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Wright's OE grammar
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Add: I. air as one of the four elements
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  • Sié eorþe is drýge and ceald, and ꝥ wæter wǽt and ceald; sié lyft . . . is ǽgðer ge ceald ge wǽt, Bt. 33, 4; F. 128, 35. ꝥ lyft ys wǽt and wearm.

    . . fýr býð wearm and drigge. . . eorðe ys ceald and drigge . . . wæter is ceald and wǽt,
      Angl. viii. 299, 28-35.
the body of air surrounding the earth, the atmosphere:
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  • Swá swá lyft and lagu land ymbclyppað,

      Met. 9, 40.

  • Stille þynceð lyft ofer londe and lagu swíge,

      Rä. 4, 11.

  • Cómon twégen deóflu tó him of þǽre lyfte

    velut ex aere lapsi,

      Guth. Gr. 123, 7.

  • Fliógan ofer þám fýre þe is betwux þám rodore and þǽre lyfte,

      Bt. 36, 2 ; F. 174, 10.

  • Hé ongan fleógan on þá lyfte,

      Bl. H. 187, 28.

  • Deóflu fleóð geond þás lyft ungesewenlíce, swá swá fugelas dóð gesewenlíce,

      Hml. Th. ii. 90, 21.

  • On lyft scacan, fleógan ofer foldan,

      Sat. 263.

  • In lyft ástág cirm,

      Gú. 363.
the upper region of the air, sky, heaven
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  • Tó morgen hyt byð smylte weder ; þes heofon (caelum) ys reád . . . Tó dæg hyt byð hreóh weder; þeós lyft

    (caelum)

    scínð unwederlíce,
      Mt. 16, 3.

  • Lyft úp geswearc

    heaven above grew dark,

      Exod. 461.

  • Lyft bið onbærned, hreósað heofonsteorran,

      Cri. 1043.

  • Odeówdon fýrena leóman on norðdǽle þǽre lyfte,

      Chr. 926; P. 107, 19.

  • Nis ǽnig nú eorl under lyfte,

      Cri. 219: Ph. 39: Gú. 91.
  • Hý hine hófun on þá heán lyft, 383.
a cloud
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  • Lyft

    nubes,

      An. Ox. 3711 [: Mk. 9, 7 : Lk. 21, 27 : 12, 54, in Dict.
    ].
contaminated air
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  • Wólberende lyft hwítes heówes,

      Nar. 15, 32.

  • Ealle súðfolc worhton eorþhús for þǽre lyfte wylme and ǽternesse,

      Lch. ii. 146, 16.
air in motion, a breeze
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  • Mec lyft úpháhóf, wind of wǽge,

      Rä. 11, 9.

  • Hé sǽde ꝥ án gehwǽde wolcn efne þá upp ástige mid þǽre unstæðdigan lyfte. Efne ðá árás se wind,

      Hml. S. 18, 150.

  • Ne windig wolcen, ne þǽr wæter fealleð lyfte gebysgad,

      Ph. 62.

  • Hé gesette ýsta his on lyftu (

    auram

    ),
      Ps. L. 106, 29. v. ǽr-lyft, un-lyft, úp-lyft.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lyft.” 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/54874.

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