Brǽþ
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - brǽþ
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- brǽþ
- Add: I. odour: -- -Brǽþ odor, Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 26. Mǽre brǽð þǽr stanc, swá ꝥ ꝥ wíf wundrode þæs wynsuman brǽþes, and cwæð ꝥ heó nǽfre ǽr náht swilces ne gestunce. Hml. S. 4, 347. Se brǽð on heora nosðyrlum ne áteorode, Hml. Th. ii. 98, 9. Se wynsuma brǽð beláf, 548, 7, 3. Wundorlices brǽðes swæc, 352, 15. Brǽd olfactum, i. odorem, An. Ox. 315 : odoratum, 3487. Brǽþum swétum odoramentis nectareis, 3325. I a. fig. :-- Mid brǽðe háligra mihta . . . mid brǽðum gódra weorca, Hml. Th. i. 222, 4, 7. II. exhalation, air impregnated with odour :-- Wynsum brǽð stémde of þǽre hálgan róde, and þá lyfte áfylde, Hml. S. 27, 109. Wearð ꝥ brýdbed mid brǽðe áfylled, swylce þǽr lǽgon lilie and rose, 4, 32. Þes brǽð isof Críste, 42. III. hot vapour :-- Ðá brǽðas ðæs flǽsces stigon up eall swilc hit mist wǽre. Hml. S. 23, 36. IIIa. in a medical sense :-- Ne æppla ne win nis tó sellanne, for ðon ðe hié habbað hátne brǽþ. Lch. ii. 212, 3. IIIb. fig. :-- Wylm, brǽþ feruorem, i. ardorem (devotionis), An. Ox. 2511.