Blǽd

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blǽd

m. Add : ; f. (I. a blowing, blast of wind :-- Swíðe mycel windes blǽd, Bl. H. 199, 21; Hml. S. 23, 72. Blǽde flamine, Germ. 400, 496. Se wind him stód ongeán mid ormǽtum blǽde, Hml. Th. ii. 378, 16 : i. 502, 19. Hé ðone windes blǽd áweg flígde, ii. 140, 26. Zephirus blǽwð westan, and þurh his blǽð (blǽd, v. l.) ácuciað ealle blǽdu, Lch. iii. 274, 20. Blǽdas flabra, i. flatus ventorum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 24: fla(b)ra, 37, 21. Blǽdas (-es, MS.) auras, An. Ox. 50, 4. Tóworpen þurh windes blǽda (blǽde, blǽdum, v. ll.), Lch. iii. 276, 16. I a. figurative :-- Blǽdum fasti vel superbiae flatibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 43. II. breath, breathing :-- Blǽde anhelitu, An. Ox. 48, 5. Hí (the seals) mid heora blǽde his leoma beðedon, Hml. Th. ii. 138, 12. Ðurh ðæs dracan blǽd seó menigu wearð geuntrumod, 294, 22. Ðone líflican blǽd the breath of life, 92, 12. Blǽdas spiracula, An. Ox. 4864: flabra (chelydri), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 59. III. spirit :-- Hálgostes blǽd onbláwende sacrosancti flatus (i. spiritus) inspirans, An. Ox. 1527. IV. inspiration :-- Of gerýnelicum blǽde (spiramine) word Godes geworden flǽsc, Hy. S. 43, 36. Se Hálga Gást mid his blǽde onǽlde eorðlicra manna heortan, Hml. Th. i. 323, 13. V. of fire, flame, blaze; cf. blǽst, bláwan, I. 4 :-- Blaeed, bléd, bled flamma, Txts. 64, 445. Fýr ignis, lég flamma, blǽd flamina (flamma ?) (in a list 'de igne'), Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 13. Biscophádas oððe blǽd flamina, ii. 35, 68. VI. prosperity :-- Gif him þince ꝥ his hús byrnð, micel blǽd and torhtnes him byð tóweard, Lch. iii. 170, 10. [v. N. E. D. blead.] Cf. bláwan. blæd

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