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sleán, <b>A. I.</b> add: v. sliccan
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §54; §68; §69; §70; §128; §139; §148; §170; §172; §239; §246; §320; §328; §329; §475; §476; §509;
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  • Sum slóh mid slecge þá hæpsan, Hml. S. 32, 202. II a.

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    :-- Eald feoh þe man on fyrndagum slóh,
      Hml. S. 23, 614.
to strike a musical instrument, cf. hearp-slege
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  • Hé slóh cymbalan

    cymbala percussit,

      Gr. D. 62, 16.
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  • Iosue hæfde sige and slóh þá hǽðenan . . . þonne hæfde Amalech sige and slóh ꝥ Godes folc,

      Hml. S. 13, 15-18.
add: V a. to make a sound
with the voice
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  • Þone swég þára fíf clipiendra stafa sleán hí wel sonum uocalium litterarum bene perstrepant, Chrd. 57, 9. VI b. add :-- Þá slógon his geféran geteld

    tetenderunt tentorium,

      Bd. 3, 17; Sch. 268, 1.

  • Hié námon treówu, and slógon on óþerne ende ísene næglas,

      Ors. 4, 1; S. 158, 4.
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  • Sleá man of þá hand þe hé ꝥ fúl mid worhte,

      Ll. Th. i. 206, 20.
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  • Arrianus wearð slagen mid sæmnedlicre blindnesse,

      Gr. D. 235, 2.
  • VIII a. of the action of disease :-- Þáá

  • Gesca sláet singultat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 120, 50. (This entry is better here than at B. III, where it is given.) B. (

    intransitive

    or absolute)
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  • Þá slóh hé ǽnes on ꝥ wæter . . . þá slóh hé eft on ðone streám mid his láreówes sciccelse percussit semel . . .

    percussit fluvium magistri pallio,

      Gr. D. 19, 18-26.

  • Heó leát tó siege and hé slóh þá tó, ac ꝥ swurd ne mihte búton þá hýde ceorfan, þeáh þe hé betelíce slóge,

      Hml. S. 12, 211.

  • Þeáh him mon sleá mid sweorde wiþ þæs heáfdes,

      Bl. H. 47, 13.

  • Sé went óþer hleór tó sleándum, R. Ben. 28, 3. I b. of an implement :-- Sleándre slecge

    tundentis mallei,

      An. Ox. ii. 70.
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  • Þæt fýr slóh út of ðám ofne, and forswǽlde þá cwelleras,

      Hml. Th. i. 570, 16.
  • v. mann- (?), þurh-sleán.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sleán.” 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/58161.

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