Fleard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Fleard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 fleard

n. Trifles; nūgæ :-- Gif friþgeard sí on hwæs lande, abúton stán, oððe treów, oððe wille, oððe swilces ǽnige fleard if there be an inclosed space on any one's land, about a stone, or a tree, or a well, or any trifles of such kind, L. N. P. L. 54; Th. ii. 298, 17. Flearde fraude, Mone B. 1530. [Orm. flærd mockery: Scot. flird: Icel. flærð, f. deceit.] DER. ge-fleard. fleard

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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