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Old English Dictionary Entry

óþ-healdan

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1 óþ-healdan

to withhold, keep back :-- Gif hwelc folc biþ mid hungre geswenced, and hwá his hwiǽte gehýt and óþhielt hú ne wilt hé ðonne hiera deáþes si populos fames atlereret, et occulta frumenta ipsi servarent, auctores proculdubio mortis existerent, Past. 49, 1; Swt. 377, 9. Ðæt he nǽfre nabbe húsa ðæt he hit (s tolen property) óþhealde. Lch. i. 384, 10. oþ-healdan
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Runic Inscription

ᚩᚦ-ᚻᛠᛚᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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