Á-blendar

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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á-blendar

Add: (1) literal, (a) where sight is destroyed :-- Áblendeþ suffundit (cf. ? oculi suffusio = cataract), Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 47. Sedechias man áblende, Ælfc. T. 8, 13, Hí hine (Samson) áblendon, Jud. 16, 21. Hét se cyng áblendan Ælfgár, Chr. 993; P. 127, 29. Him burston út his eágan . . . hé wearð áblend, Hml. S. 19, 129. Wulfeáh and Ufegeat wǽron áblende, Chr. 1006; P. 136, 10. Sume wurdon áblænde, 1075; P. 212, 8. (b) where sight is impeded :-- Gé tysliaþ eów on Denisc áblendum eágum (with the hair falling over the eyes ?), Engl. Stud. viii. 6., 5. (2) fig. :-- Gítsung hí áblent. Bt. 36, 6; F. 130, 34. Lác áblendaþ (excoecant) glǽwne. Ex. 23, 8. Áblændaþ, L. Alf. 46; Th. i. 54, 18. Hé bið áblend mid unwísdóme, Past. 69, 16. Áblendad, ðæt is, beswicen, Rtl. 197, 23. Se áblenda Datianus, Hml. S. 14, 128. (3) as a medical term :-- Cancer áblendan to prevent suppuration in a cancer, Lch. i. 6, 24; 88, 20. [Laym., A. R., R. Glouc., Ayenb., Piers P. a-blende[n] : O. H. Ger. ar-blenden obcoecare.]

Related words: á-blindan. a-blendar