Blǽstan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

blǽstan

p. te. I. to blow (N. E. D. blast], v. á-blǽst. II. to move impetuously, rush [or is this a different verb blæstan? cf. O. H. Ger. blesten descendere; ana-blesten, p. -blasta ingruere, inruere : ar-blesten erumpere; ana-blast (-blást?) impetus] :-- Forð blǽstan erumperant, Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 23. Þá deófla þá blǽstan hié ofer þone hálgan Andreas (cf. the same scene in the poem : Hié wǽron reówe, rǽsdon on sóna gífrum grápum. An. 1336), Bl. H. 243, 11. [Cf. (?) Mid. E. bluster, v. N. E. D. s. v.] v. on-blǽstan in Dict. blæstan