Brand

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

brand

Add: I. a fire-brand, a piece of wood that is burning or intended for burning :-- Brand (brond) titio, Txts. 100, 987 : Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 40: torris, 284, 19. Cylle, brond calbrum, ii. 127, 70. Nán brand nolde byrnan under þám wætere, Hml. S. 36, 399. Brandas p(re)usti, Txts. 111, 18. Branda titionum, An. Ox. 2470. Brandum flammantibus scindulis, 2459. Fýrum, brandum torribus, i. ignibus, 3520: Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 56. Swilce sum hús forburne, brastligende mid brandum, Hml. Th. ii. 140, 16. Ia. a torch :-- Mið brondum l ðæccillum cum facibus, Jn. L. R. 18, 3. II. burning (IIa. (?) brand, blight causing leaves, &c. to look as though burnt (v. N. E. D. brand, 7. Cf. O. H. Ger. wintbrant rubigo: Ger. brand blight) :-- Brond, com (? or brand-oom, q. v.) rubigo, Wrt. Voc. ii. 119, 34. Possibly the word occurs in the obscure gloss 'Et didit erugini, i. brondegur UNCERTAIN (=?? brond erugo),' An. Ox. 54, 2 (see the note). III. a blade, sword :-- Se hálga áleát and astrehte his swuran under ðám scínendan brande, Hml. Th. ii. 510, 19. [Asleah .1111. scearpan mid ǽcenan (ǽrenan?) brande, geblódga ðone brand, weorp on weg. Lch. iii. 52, 2.?] brand

Parole correlate: Dict).