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m. I. a narrator, an informer, announcer :-- Ðæs ðe ic ǽfre on ealdre ǽngum ne wolde monna ofer moldan melda weorþan what I would never relate to any man upon earth, Exon. 50 b; Th. 176, 3; Gú. 1203: 73 b; Th. 275, 28 ; Jul. 557. Sió æsc biþ melda, nalles þeóf the axe is an informer, not a thief (i. e. the noise made by hewing with an axe would attract the attention, which a thief would certainly shun, I turned informer (cf. Th. 259, 28 sqq., 270, 10 for the narrative forced from the devil by Juliana: cf. also Jul. pp. 39 sqq.), Exon. 74 b; Th. 279, 30; Jul. 621. Ðæt wé ðæs morþres meldan ne weorþen that we be not informers of the crime, Elen. Kmbl. 856; El. 428. II. a betrayer :-- Gé sind meldan and manslagan (betrayers and murderers, Acts vii. 52), Homl. Th. i. 46, 24. [Cf. O. L. Ger. meldari sponsor: O. H. Ger. meldari delator, proditor.] melda
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Ger.
German
L.
Latin
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

Obras y autores

El.
Elene (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gú.
Guthlac (OE poem)
Jul.
Juliana (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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