Tó-gán

p. -eode; pp. -gán. I. of living things, to go in two different directions, to part, separate :-- Gif wíf and wer ǽne tógáþ, Homl. Th. ii. 324, 2. Apollonius and Hellanicus tóeodon mid ðisum worduin, Ap. Th. 8, 23. Mycel wæl feóll on ǽgðre healfe, and ða heras him sylfe tóeodan, Chr. 1016; Erl. 156, 20. Æfter ðon ðe wit nú tócyrraþ and tógáne beóþ postquam ab invicem digressi fuerimus, Bd. 4, 29 ; S. 607, 20 MS. B. II. of material things, to be sundered, to part :-- Ic tógá dehisco. Engl. Stud. xi. 65, 23. Hé slóh mid ánre gyrde on ða sǽ, and heó tóeode on twá, Wulfst. 293, 15 : Homl. Th. ii. 194, 19. Seó eá on emtwá tóeode, 212, 22. Ðá tóeodon ða stánas, and geopenode ðæt get, H. R. 103. 22. III. to go in many different directions, to disperse, go away :-- Ða wæteru tóeodon and wanedon aquae ibant et decrescebant. Gen. 8, 5. Þe wlcne togað, O. E. Homl. i. 239, 25. Þe rede see toeode, 141, 6. He smat Frolic uppen þæne hælm þat he atwa helden (toȝeode, 2nd MS. ), Laym. 23980. O. H. Ger. ze-gán : Ger. zer-gehen.]