Wág

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wág

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: ( Related words: bréden), Homl. Th. i. 288, 4.

Definitions

1 wág

-h), wǽg, es; m. A wall, mostly of a building :-- Wáh paries, Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 8: 290, 7: Ælfc. Gr. 9, 26; Zup. 52, 12. Ǽlces húses wáh biþ fæst ǽgþer ge on ðære flóre ge on ðæm hrófe, Bt. 36, 7; Fox 184, 12. Him ne wiðstent nán ðing, náðer ne stǽnen weall ne brýden wáh (a wattled wall; cf. wága cratium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 55, and next passage; and Graticium wág flecta (cf. flecta hyrdel, 149, 43), Wrt. Voc. ii. 110, 15. Wág, Exon. Th. 476, 18; Ruin. 9. Ǽlc wág (paries) bið gebiéged twiefeald on ðæm heale, Past. 35; Swt. 245, 13. 'Ðurhðyrela ðone wág (wáh, Cott. MSS.). Ðá ic ðá ðone wáh ðurhðyreludne hæfde . . . Ealle ða hearga wǽron átiéfrede on ðæm wǽge' . . . Hwæt is sió ðyrelung ðæs wáges? 21 ; Swt. 153, 17-25. On áne studu ðæs wáges (the wall of the hall), Bd. 3, 10; S. 534, 29 : (the wall of a church), Blickl. Homl. 207, 16. Seó wræþstudu ðam wáge (the wall of the church) tó wræþe geseted wæs, Bd. 1, 17; S. 544, 24, 32. Hé wende hine tó wáge (the wall of the chamber), Homl. Th. i. 414, 19. On ðínre healle wáge, ii. 436, 10 : Cd. Th. 261, 8; Dan. 723 : Andr. Kmbl. 1428; An. 714: Beo. Th. 3328; B. 1662. Wǽge, Exon. Th. 394, 17; Rä. 14, 4. Hé slóg mid his heáfde on ðone wág, ðonne hé on his setl sæt, Ors. 5, 15; Swt. 250, 12. Wáh, Ps. Th. 61, 3. Ða wágas (the walls of a church) nǽron rihte, Blickl. Homl. 207, 18 : (the walls of a palace), Nar. 4, 24. Ne mé ne lyst mid glase geworhtra wága, Bt. 5, l ; Fox 10, 17. Ne beó wé tó weallum oððe tó wágum geworhte on ðære gástlícan gebytlunge, Homl. Th. ii. 582, 14. Web æfter wágum, Beo. Th. 1994; B. 995. Ðæt cyricgrið stande ǽghwǽr binnan wágum, L. I. P. 25 : Th. ii. 338, 35. On wágum ðæra húsa ðe wið dúna standaþ, Lchdm. i. 124, 16. Wið wágas, 116, 21. Hí heora heáfdu slogan on ða wágas, Blickl. Homl. 151, 5 : Homl. Th. i. 106, 14. [Wahes, O. E. Homl. i. 247, 17. Þare halle wah, Laym. 25887. Waȝes UNCERTAIN (walls of temples), wowes (2nd MS.), 10182. Wah (wach) oðer wal, A. R. 104, 5. Wiðinnen þe uour woawes, 172, 21. Fra wah to waȝhe, UNCERTAIN Orm. 1015. Tweȝȝenn UNCERTAIN waȝhess, UNCERTAIN 6825. Wowes, O. and N. 1528. Woȝ, UNCERTAIN Ayenb. 72. Woughe, Wyck. Ps. 61, 4, Wowes, Piers P. 3, 61. O. Frs. wách: Goth. waddjus: Icel. veggr.]

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