Gār-secg
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gār-secg
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- gār-secg
- Add: I. ocean, sea as opposed to land or air :-- Sǣ mare vel aequor, gārsecg oceanus, Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 64. Folde . . . , gārsecg, Gen. 117. Ealne middangeard yrnbfēran swā gārsecg (oceanus) beliged, Nar. 20, 15. Swā swā lyft and lagu land ymbclyppad, gārsecg embegyrt gumena rīce, Met. 9, 41. Gārsecg fandad hwæder āc hæbbe ædele treówe, Rūn. 25. Þū gārsecges grundas geworhtes, Hy. 10, 7. Gār-secges gæst (the whale), Wal. 29. On gārsecge oceano, Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 68. Seó dridde India līd tō dām micclum gārsecge . . . hæfd on ōdere sīdan done grimlican gārsecg, Hml. Th. i. 454, 13-15. Hē gesette þone gārsecg on his goldhorde, Ps. Th. 32, 6. Þone wīdgyllan gārsecg. Hml. A. 3, 53: Ph. 289: An. 371. II. a particular part of the general body of water, an ocean :-- Se gārsecg þe man hǣt Brittan-isca . . . on ōdre healfe þæs gārsecges earme is Brittannia, Ors. 1, 1; S. 22, 24. Od done gārsecg usque ad oceanum Aeihiopicum, S. 26, 10, 16, 24, 26. and secg sea. gar-secg