Gim

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gim

Add: I. a precious stone :-- Gim þe bid on coches micga flestria, Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 32. Gim gemma, Kent. Gl. 597. Se giem (gim, ) jacintus, Past. 85, 5. Ne mæg hit steorra ne stān ne se steápa gim be-swīcan, Sal. 284, Is seó eággebyrd hīwe gelīcast gladum gimme, þonne in goldfate smida orþoncum biseted weorded, Ph. 303. Ðā giemmas, Past. 135, 3, 4, 16. Gimmas, 7. Gimmas hæfdon bewrigene weordlīce wealdes treów, Kr. 16. Sum bid searocræftig goldes and gimma, þonne him gumena weard hāted tō mǣrdum māddum rēnian, Crä. 59. Hē hit gihrīnade mid golde and mid gimmum, Jn. p. 188, 5. Wīntreówa blōstman beód gimman gelīce, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 295, 12. Īs glisnad glæs-hlūttur gimmum gelīcast, Rūn. 11. Mon sceal sēcan be sǣwarode and be eá ōfrum æþele gimmas, hwīte and reáde and hīwa gehwæs, Met. 19, 22 : Bt. 32, 3; F. 118, 17. Gymmas, Coll. M. 27, 7. II. used of the heavenly bodies :-- Hālge gimmas, sunne and mōna, Cri. 692. Swegles leóht, gimma gladost, ædeltungla wyn the sun, Ph. 289. II a. where a person is spoken of as a sun :-- Cyning þrymlīce of his heáhsetle scīned, wlitig wuldres gim, Ph. 516. v. god-, heáfod-, searo-, sine-, tungol-, wæl-, wuldor-gim. gim

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