Drif

Old English Dictionary Entry

Drif

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 drif

f. I. a fever; febris :-- Seó drif [sio drif MS.] febris, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 8, 15. II. but drif, es; m. or n. in the following example :-- Full neáh ǽfre ðe óðer man wearþ on ðam wyrrestan yfele, ðæt [MS. þet] is on ðam drife almost every other man was in the worst evil, that is with fever, Chr. 1087; Th. 353, 38. DER. ge-drif. drif

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