1 BLÓMA
m. [blów+am+a, Ettm. 314] Metal, the metal taken from the ore, Wrt. Voc. 34, note 1: a mass; metallum, massa = μåζα that which adheres together like 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, referring to this quotation,-'Inter ea quæ pertinent ad metalla.' Blóma is contained in one of our oldest glossaries :-- Dáh [MS. dað] vel blóma massa, Ælfc. Gl. 51; Som. 66, 9; Wrt. Voc. 34, 68. Also in a Semi-Saxon glossary of the 12th century,-Blóma vel dáh massa, Wrt. Voc. 94, 63. DER. gold-blóma. bloma