BLÓWAN
to BLOW, flourish, bloom, blossom ⬩ florere, efflorere, reflorere ⬩ to be in full vigour or bloom ⬩ to burst, blossom
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Th. 57, 8. blówan to blossom, is sometimes used in Anglo-Saxon instead of bláwan to blow; and thus, blówan was occasionally used by the Anglo-Saxons as the present English to blow.
blówan
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Bléwþ florescit, blówaþ florent, 149, 48, 49. Blówendum frondente, 151, 10. of vegetation Þa wyrte man nimeð þonne heó bléþ (bléwð,v.l.) swiðust, Lch. i. 160, 14. ꝥ Þeáh Maius wynsumlíce blówe, Angl. viii. 311, 1.
blówan
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Bloewð, Ps. Vos. 91, 13. Add
ge-blówan
To blow ⬩ flourish ⬩ bloom ⬩ blossom ⬩ flōrēre ⬩ efflōrēre
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To blow, flourish, bloom, blossom; flōrēre, efflōrēre Wyrt geblóweþ herba flōreat, Ps. Th. 89, 6. Ðæt gé on his wícum wel geblówan in atriis dŏmus Dei nostri flōrēbunt, 91, 12. Se æðela feld wrídaþ underwolcnum, wynnum geblówen the noble field flourishes
ge-blówan
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Add: <b>ge-blówen</b> blown (as in full-blown), blooming, in bloom, that has blossomed. lit. of plants Ealra beáma beorhtast geblowen, Ph. 179. Secgeað lǽcas ꝥte geblówene wyrta þonne sién betste tó wyrcenne tó drencum, Lch. ii. 146, 17.
blótan
To sacrifice, to kill for a sacrifice ⬩ immolare, sacrificare ⬩ sacrificare
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[blót a sacrifice] To sacrifice, to kill for a sacrifice; immolare, sacrificare Ðæt hí hiora godum ðe ýð blótan meahton that they might the more easily sacrifice to their gods, Ors. 2, 2; Bos. 40, 37: 4, 4; Bos. 80, 39: 5, 2; Bos. 102, 16. Ongunnon heora
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blótan
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Swelce hwá wille blótan ðǽm fæder tó ðance and tó lácum his ǽgen bearn quasi qui victimat filium in conspectu patris sui, Past. 393, 9. Add: [a weak past seems used (ofredon and blótten (-on. Th., blóten, S. 162, 30)) in Ors. 4, 4; Bos. 80, 18; cf. O.
blótan
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ꝥ hié sceolden mid monnum for hié heora godum blótan, Ors. 4, 7; S. 184, 5. Add
BLÓMA
Metal, the metal taken from the ore ⬩ a mass ⬩ metallum, massa ⬩ that which adheres together like a dough
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Metal, the metal taken from the ore, Wrt. Voc. 34, note 1: a mass; metallum, massa = μâζα that which adheres together like a dough Wht. Dict. Ísenes blóma a mass of iron; ferii massa, Som: Cot. 135. Blóma oððe dáh massa, Wrt. Voc. 85, 16;Lye says truly
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blondan
to mix, blend, mingle ⬩ miscere
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to mix, blend, mingle; miscere
blóden
Bloody
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Bloody Of blódene de cruente, Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 15
blóma
a mass ⬩ lump
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a mass, lump Blóma melallum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 77: massa (picea; massa is glossed by clyne, Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 22), An. Ox. 18b, 55. Blóman ísenes massam ferri, Scint. 97, 2. Hét se geréfa heora ǽlcum gebindan leádes blóman on heora swyran, Shrn. 54,
blon
ceased ⬩ cessavit
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ceased; cessavit, Bd. 5, 6; S. 619, 15: 3, 20; S. 550, note 27; p. of blinnan
on-blótan
to offer, sacrifice
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to offer, sacrifice Abraham onbleót ðǽt lác Gode, Cd. Th. 177, 21; Gen. 2933
a-blótan
To sacrifice ⬩ immolare
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To sacrifice; immolare
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ge-blondan
To blend ⬩ mix ⬩ mingle ⬩ miscēre
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To blend, mix, mingle; miscēre Áttre geblonden mixed with venom, Cd. 216; Th. 272, 34; Sat. 129
blówend-lic
Flowery
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Flowery Þá blówendlican floralia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 51
gold-blóma
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A golden mass Se hálga Gást wunode on ðam gecorenan hordfæte ... se goldblóma on ðas world becom and menniscne líchoman onféng æt Sancta Marian the Holy Ghost dwelt in the chosen treasury ... the golden mass came into this world and received a human
gold-blóma
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Add: A gold-bloom (v. N. E. D.), marigold(?). In favour of the meaning 'golden mass' it may be noted that blóma is not found in A. S. with the sense 'bloom', 'blossom'; and the occurrence of hordfæte and gewelegade in the passage seems to suggest that
blǽd
fruit.
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fruit. Blǽd coma, Wrt. Voc. ii. 22, 41. Hé ábreác þæs forbodenan treówes æpples . . . hié þá blǽde þigdon, Angl. xi. 1, 19. Ábiteriað ðá bléda fructus amarescit, Past. 341, 24. Ácuciað ealle eorðlice blǽdu (-e, -a, v. ll.) and blðwað (printed bláwað)