hreów
fierce ⬩ sævus ⬩ mæstus
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However, as Ettmüller, p. 504, observes, perhaps the three forms hreóh, hreów, hreáw are sometimes confounded
hreóh
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Add: hreów, reów. (For forms with w see hreóh storm, hreóh-nes; ) rough of weather, sea, &c., tempestuous Sió hlúde ýd on ðǽre hreón sǽ procella saeviens, Past. 437, 16.
hrið
Fever
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Fever Fefer ðæt is micel hǽto and hrið [MS. hruð], L. M. 2, 24; Lchdm. ii. 214, 7
Linked entry: hruð
hreóh
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Add: hreów a stormy, troublous time Manige yfelice mæn becómon tó þám wuldorbeágum þæs sóðan martyrdómes, þonne hwylc hreów oððe éhtnes upp árás ( oborta occasione ), Gr. D. 232, 7
hreód
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Gr. 141, 18. ¶ the word forms part of many compounds in local names, e. g. hreód-bróc, C. D. iii. 79, 26: hreód-burne, 25, 18: hreód- íg, v. 121, 30: hreód-leáh, iii. 246, 19: hreód-mǽd, vi. 153, 9: hreód-mór, C. D. B. ii. 433, 29: hreód-pól, C.
hreð-mónaþ
March
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March On ðæm þriddan mónþe on geáre biþ án and þrittig daga and se mónþ is nemned on lǽden martius and on úre geþeóde hrédmónaþ in the third month in the year are one and thirty days, and the month is called in latin martius, and in our language hrédmónaþ
Linked entry: hlýda
flán-hred
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Swift as an arrow Flánhred dæg (the day of death. Cf. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, Job 7, 6), Reim. 72. Substitute:
hreran
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To this hryre ( = hrere) might be assigned: but it might, perhaps, be looked upon as a mutated form of hrure, though there are few traces outside of the preterite-present verbs of such mutation. Cf. þætte ic hrure ł ꝥ ic feól, Ps.
hrǽn
capreolus
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capreolus, Som
hrefl
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Wrt. Voc. 66, 12
hrést
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Bt. Met. Fox 11, 116; Met. 11, 58