Be-lúcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-lúcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: he -lýcþ; Related words: trans.

Definitions

1 be-lúcan

p. -leác, pl. -lucon; pp. -locen; [be, lúcan to lock] To lock up, inclose, surround, shut, shut up; concludere, recludere, includere, circumcludere, amplecti, obserare, claudere :-- Drihten hí beleác Dominus conclusit eos, Deut. 32, 30. Gif he ðone oxan belúcan nolde si non recluserit bovem, Ex. 21, 29. Ðá hét he hine gebringan on carcerne and ðǽr inne belúcan he gave an order to take him to prison and therein lock him up, Bt. 1; Fox 2, 26 : Ors. 4, 5; Bos. 81, 40 : Gen. 41, 49 : Ps. Spl. C. T. 16, 11. Belocen leoðu-bendum locked up in limb-bonds, Andr. Kmbl. 327; An. 164. Wealle belocen inclosed with a wall, Cd. 209; Th. 259, 24; Dan. 696. Ðæt man belúce ǽlc deofulgyld-hús that one should close every idol-temple, Ors. 6, 30; Bos. 127, 36. be-lucan

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛚᚢᚳᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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