Blæse

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - blæse

According to the Old English Dictionary:

blase, an;

blæse
f. I. a BLAZE, flame; ardor, flamma. II. that which makes a blaze,-A torch, lamp; fax, facula, lampas = λαμπάs :-- Blæse fax, Greg. Dial. 2, 8: Glos. Prudent. Recd. 143, 33. Iudas com ðyder mid leóhtfatum, and mid blasum, and mid wǽpnum Iudas venit illuc cum laternis, et facibus, et armis, Jn. Bos. 18, 3. Blæsum faculis, Mone B. 3487. Blase lampas, Ælfc. Gl. 30; Som. 61, 54; Wrt. Voc. 26, 53. [M. H. Ger. blas, n. fax, lampas.] blæse

Related words: bǽl-blase.

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