Hleóþor

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

hleóþor

In bracket at end read O. H. Ger. hliodar, and add: I. a sound, noise :-- Ongan þǣr beón gehȳred swȳþe mycel swēg and hleódor swylce þǣr wǣre sum mycel mænigo in gangende coepit quasi cujusdam magnae multitudinis ingredientis sonitus audiri, Gr. D. 284, 24. Hleódor gryrelic, An. 1553. II. the sound of a bell or musical instrument, voice of the trumpet :-- Hyre is on fōte fæger hleódor, wynlicu wōdgiefu, Rä. 32, 17. For þǣre bellan hleódre (ad sonum tintinnabuli) hē ongǣte hwænne Rōmānus him þone hlāf brōhte. Gr. D. 99, 5. Gehȳrde heó cūdne swēg and hleódor heora bellan audiuit notum campanae sonum, Bd. 4, 23 ; Sch. 477, 16. Ðeáh de . . . ānra gehwylc . . . hæbbe gyldene bȳman on mūde, and ealra bȳmena gehwylc hæbbe .xii. hleódor, and hleódra gehwylc sȳ heofone heárre and helle deópre, donne gēna dæs hālgan cantices se gyldena organ hē hȳ ealle ofer-hleóded, Sal. K. p. 152, 7-12. III. thr sound produced by the mouth of an animate creature, voice :-- Þā wrōhtsmidas hleódrum brugdon, hwīlum swā wilde deór cirmdon, hwīlum cyrdon eft on mennisc hīw breahtma mǣste, Gū. 878. (l) voice of a rational being (a) in speech :-- Him stȳran cwōm stefn of heofonum, wuldres hleódor, word æfter spræc, Exod. 417 : An. 740. Wæs stefn geworden, seó fordgelǣd-dum hleódre swā gecleopode and þus cwæd vox facta est, quae producto sonitu clamaret, dicens, Gr. D. 53, 23. Hē ne meahte ellensprǣce hleódor āhebban, Gū. 1129. Hē þurh hleódor ābeád ege earmum gǣstum, 657. Hié tōhlōdon hleódrum gedǣlde . . . siddan metod tōbrǣd monna sprǣce, Gen. 1693. ¶ where a thing is personified :-- Ic (a horn) wæs wǣpenwiga . . . hwīlum ic tō hilde hleódre bonne wilgehlēdan, Rä. 15, 4. (b) in song :-- Þæs sealmsanges hleódor and dreám psalmodiae sonitus, Gr. D. 286, 2. Ðonne wit song āhōfan. . , hlūde bi hearpan hleódor swinsade, Vīd. 105. Engla hleódres (cf. Engla þreátas sigeleód sungon, 1289), Gū. 1293. (2) voice, note of a bird :-- Ic þurh mūd sprece . . . hleódres ne mīde, Rā. 9, 4. Dyde ic mē tō gomene ganetes hleódor, Scef. 20. Þonne hē gehērad hleódrum brægdan ōdre fugelas, hī heora āgene stefne styriad, Met. 13, 47. adj. hleoþor,hleoðor

Parole correlate: efen-, swēg, word-hleóþor ; ge-, ofer-, unge-hleóþor;