First
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - first
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- first
- m. A space of time, time; tempŏris spătium, tempus :-- Ðá wæs first agán then was the time expired, Andr. Kmbl. 393; An. 147. Óþ ðone first ðe hie wurdon swíðe meteleáse until the time that they were very destitute of food, Chr. 918; Erl. 104, 12: Bt. 38, 1; Fox 194, 27.