Ælan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ælan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ælan
- l. ǽlan, and add: I. to kindle light, fire:--Hí fýr ǽlað, Wal. 22. Ne scyle nán mon blǽcern ǽlan under mittan, Past. 43, 2. Ǽldon adolent, incendunt, Germ. 402. 68. II. to burn up. in Dict.). III. to burn, expose to fire what is not consumed:--Se deópa seáð giémeð gǽsta, ǽleð hý mid ðý ealdan líge, Cri. 1547. [Se geréfa hét bringen leaden fæt, and hét hit mid wætere áfyllan, and dyde hit ǽlen swýþe hát, Nar. 46, 4.] ælan