Geofon
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - geofon
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- geofon
- Add: I. ocean, sea, flood:--Ic gewíte sécan gársecges grund; gifen bið gewréged, Rá. 3, 3. Gársecg, geofon geótende, An. 393. Geofon (the Red Sea), Exod. 447. On geofones staðe, 580. Ymb geofenes stæð gearwe stódon sǽmearas, El. 227. Ofer geofenes streám across the sea, 1201. Hwá áspyreð ðæt deófol of geofones holte, and hine gebringeð on Crístes cempena fæðmum?, Sal. K. 146, 27. Þes bát glídeð on geofone, An. 498. Storm oft holm gebringeð, geofen in grimmum sǽlum, Gn. Ex. 52. II. a flood, deluge:--Flód ofslóh, gifen (Noah's flood) geótende, giganta cyn, B. 1690. Geofon (the water that had poured from the pillar) swaðrode, An. 1587: 1626. Duguð wearð áfyrhted þurh þæs flódes fǽr . . . geonge on geofene gúðrǽs fornam, 1533. [O. Sax. geban.? geofon