Geótan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

geótan

Add: I. trans. (1) to pour, cause to flow. (a) the object a liquid or powder:--Aquarius, ꝥ is sé þe wæter gýt (geót, ), Lch. iii. 246, 5. Hé geát on græswong háligra blód, Jul. 6. Hí mid spere of mínre sídan swát út guton, Cri. 1449. Geót on bollan, Lch. ii. 50, 12. Geót on múð ꝥ ilce dúst, 140, 2. (aa) to shed tears:--Ealle teáras guton omnes lacrimas fundunt, Bd. 4, 28; Sch. 523, 7. (b) with a non-material object:--Sió slǽwð giétt slǽp on ðone monnan pigredo immittit soporem, Past. 283, 6. Hí gártorn geótað gífrum deófle, Sal. 145. (2) to pour away, squander:--Þæt hé ne ágǽle gǽstes þearfe, ne on gylp geóte, Cri. 818. (3) to found, cast, make with molten metal:--Wurdon tóbrocene þǽra hǽþenra goda anlícnyssa þurh þǽra manna handa þe hí macodon and guton, Hml. S. 29, 181. II. intrans. (1) to pour with a liquid:--Hí teárum geótað, Cri. 1567. (2) to pour, flow, gush, (a) of the (violent) motion of a liquid (lit. or fig. ):--Léton geótan háte streámas, Ruin. 43. Geótende streám unrihtwísnessa mé gedréfdon torrentes iniquitatis conturbaverunt me, Ps. Th. 17, 4. Flód ofslóh, gifen geótende, giganta cyn, B. 1690. Geótende gegrind grund eall forswealg, An. 1592. (b) of the motion of many bodies:--Þá gástas on ǽlce healfe in guton subeuntibus ab undique illis, Guth. Gr. 127, 109. (c) of a non-material object, e. g. speech:--Geótende gielp boasting that pours forth in floods, Fä. 41. v. geond-, in-, of-geótan; blód-, teár-geótende. geotan

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