Of-healdan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Of-healdan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: of-habban. of-healdan

Definitions

1 of-healdan

to withhold, keep back, retain :-- Hé lét niman of hyre ealle ða betstan gærsuma ðe heó ofhealdan ne mihte he had all the best valuables, that she could not keep back, taken from her. Chr. 1035 ; Erl. 164, 23. Mí gauil hé hauiþ ofhealden my rent he has withheld. Chart. Th. 427, 30. [Ayenb, to ofhealde to retain.]

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚠ-ᚻᛠᛚᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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