Swift

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

swift

Add: I. swift :-- Singal, swift rine perpes decursus, An. Ox. 508. Swiftum streáme rapaci, i. ueloci alueo, 2667. Swiftum passiuis (uolatibus), 264: reciprocis (uolatibus), 2408: pernicibus, uelocibus (obtutibus), 9, 10. II. sloping steeply(?). Cf. rapid as applied to the slope of a hill :-- Of ðǽm díce on swiftan beorh; of ðǽm beorhge, C.D. iii. 394, 3. swift