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EGLE

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1 EGLE

adj. Troublesome, hateful, loathsome, horrid; mŏlestus, odiōsus, infestus, turpis :-- He him sylfum byþ egle he is loathsome to himself, Basil admn. 8; Norm. 50, 24: Cd. 209; Th. 258, 21; Dan. 679. Gif egle wǽron if they were troublesome, Exon. 126a; Th. 485, 20; Rä. 71, 16. Ðý-læs sceaðan mihton egle ondsacan lest the horrid apostates might injure [him], Andr. Kmbl. 2297; An. 1150: 2916; An. 1461. Eglum áttor-sperum with horrid venomed spears, Exon. 105 a; Th. 399, 10; Rä. 18, 9. [Goth. agls shameful, disgraceful; aglus difficult, troublesome.] egle
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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Andr.
Andreas (OE poem)
Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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