Fel

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fel

Add: (1) human skin :-- Fel ufan eágan praefolium, Wrt. Voc. i. 43, 3. Fel sceal for felle pellem pro pelle (Job 2, 4), Hml. Th. ii. 452, 17. Eft ic beó mid mínum felle befangen rursum circumdabor pelle mea (Job 19, 26), i. 532, 13 : ii. 270, 19. (2) a beast's skin or hide: -- Gif hrýðera hwelc sié þe hegas brece . . . nime se ágenfrígea his fel and flǽsc, Ll. Th. i. 128, 15. Nán scyldwyrhta ne lecge nán scépes fell on scyld, 208, 10. Hé breác weðera fella for sadele vervecum pellibus pro sella utebatur, Gr. D. 34, 13. (3)a purple garment ( = pæll. Gall. s. v. fello) :-- Welige mið felle divitem purpuratum, Lk. p. 9, 2. v. bóc-, þrust-fell. fel

Related words: felle-reád. v.