Brád

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

brád

Add: I. brood (as distinguished from long) :-- Se bráda wulfes camb cameleon alba, Wrt. Voc. i. 67, 26. II. of superficial extent, (1) where size is defined :-- Seó burh wæs hyre ymbeganges .xxx. míla brad, Ors. 4, 13 ; Th. 432, 22. Innewerdre (printed -ne) handa brádnæ hláf a loaf as big as the flat of the hand. Lch. i. 404, 6. (2) of the hand, open (palma, Wrt. Voc. i. 283, 14. Wé hors ðacciað and stráciað mid brádre handa, Past. 303, 11. Bráde hand palmam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 22. (3) of great extent, wide-spread, spacious :-- Ðǽre rúman a(u)guste, brád augustum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 5, 23 : i. 287, 78. Se brada bryne ofer ealle woruld . . . þæt bráde bealo, Wlfst. 186, 8, ii. Hié þǽr gesetene sint mid brádum folcum (amplissimis generis sui increments), Ors. 3, 5 ; S. 104, 27. (4) of great circumference in comparison with depth, flat :-- Brád hláf a flat loaf (? cf. O. H. Ger. breitinga placenta); pax(i)matium, Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 66. Braad ponne cartago, ii. 103, 23. Of brádre pannan sartagine, 26, 11. brad

Verwandte Wörter: brádlinga) :-- Brad hand