Ginian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ginian

Take here geonian in Dict., and add:--Geongendi oscitantes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 75. Þá giniendan hiulcas, 42, 49. I. of living creatures. (1) to open the mouth; of the mouth, to be open:--Geonath, ginath battat, batat, Txts. 43, 269. Geót on bollan and geona ymb, Lch. ii. 50, 12. Se wóda man stód gynigende and þýwde mid múþe ꝥ hé Martinum ábite, Hml. S. 31, 538. Geoniendum bile hiulco rostro, i. aperto ore, An. Ox. 2409. Draca mid giniendum (geniendum, ) múðe, Gr. D. 156, 11. Hí cleopodon giniendum (geonigendum, v. l.) múþum, 241, 8. Þá geoniendan þrotbollan hiulcos (i. apertos) gurguliones, An. Ox. 3574. (2) to open the mouth and utter a sound:--Gionat garrit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 109, 49. Geonaþ garret, 40, 55. Ginað barrat (cf. barrit elefans cum uocem emittit, Corp. Gl. H. 23, 34), 10, 69. II. of material, to gape, yawn, be wide open:--Beneoðan swíðe deóp niwolnys ginode (geonode, v. l.) profundum subter praecipitium patet, Gr. D. 52, 18. Þǽr geonode (gynude, v. l.) inþǽre hracan swylce þǽr hwylc seáð wǽre quasi quoddam barathrum patebat in gutture, 241, 12. Hú Marcus Curtius besceát on þá genigendan (gyniendan, v. l.) eorþan, Ors. 3, 3, tit.; S. 2, 32. ginian

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