Girwan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

girwan

Take here gierwan, gerwan, gyrwan, gierian, gerian, gyrian in Dict., and add: I. to prepare, make ready for some action, set in order for a purpose:--Fela þǽra wæs wera and wífa þe þæt wínreced geredon, B. 994. Healf þæt blód hé dyde on geryde (or under IV. Or could possibly geryde be a corruption of (ge)eárede? Cf. eárede fæt cratera, 24, 25) orcas (in crateras), Ex. 24, 6. II. to prepare oneself to do something:--Hió hié tó deáþe gerede, Ors. 5, 13; S. 246, 30. Hié giredon hié tó wíge, 3, 5; S. 106, 17. Hié hié tó gefeohte geredon, 4, 10; S. 202, 13. Ongan hine fýsan and tó flote gyrwan, An. 1700. III. to dress:--Hié wuldres weard wǽdum gyrede, Gen. 941. III a. to arm:--Hé gyrede hine mid gǽstlicum wǽpnum, Gú. 148. Ic hié hét ꝥ hié hié mid heora wǽpnum gereden, Angl. iIV. to ornament:--Hié gyredon mé golde and seolfre, Kr. 77. V. to prepare food, a meal, &c.:--Geruað (parant) ðá ðegnas eóstro, Lk. p. 11, 2. Ðonne ðú feorme gierwe, Past. 323, 22. VI. to prepare, make ready for a purpose by some process:--Se háta sumor hæleða bearnum giereð and drígeð sǽd and bléda, Met. 29, 59. Ne hí siarocræftum godweb giredon nec norant lucida vellera Serum Tyrio miscere veneno, 8, 25. VII. to make for a purpose:--Hé girað (parat) eorðan rén, Ps. Spl. 146, 8. On þám stedewange girwan Godes tempel, El. 1022. VII a. to make fit for a purpose (with complement):--Sǽ cýðde hwá hine gesette . . ., forþon hé hine tredne him ongeán gyrede, þonne God wolde ofer síne ýðe gán, Cri. 1167. VIII. to make the necessary preparations for:--Þæt ic þé symbledæg sette and gyrwe, Ps. Th. 75, 7. IX. to direct:--Ðonan hine hlódan hálge and gecorene siððan hine gierdon ðá ðe Gode hérdon ðurh hálgan béc hider on eorðan, Past. 469, 1. v. ge-, on-, un-girwan. girwan

Related words: 144, 139.