Glengan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - glengan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

glengan
Add: I. to adorn with material ornaments:--Glensþ ( = glengst) comas (si tu te sumptuosius comas, Ald. 75, 5), An. Ox. 8, 332. Glencaþ comunt i. ornant, 11. Hí glencgað heora wíf mid þám þe hí weófoda sceoldan, Ll. Th. ii. 328, 7. On mænigfealdre glencge ic glencgde mínne líchoman, Angl. xi. 113, 52. Manege mid oferrence glengdan hý sylfe, Wlfst. 46, 2. II. to adorn, be an ornament to, be becoming to:--Ne glenget non decet (non decent stultum verba composita, ProIII. to arrange gracefully. (1) of dressing the hair:--Geglencendlíce glencan delicate componere, An. Ox. 1203. (2) of arranging words:--Glengede composita, Kent. Gl. 595. (v. II.) v. ge-glengan; ofer-, un-glenged. glengan

Related words: 17, 7), Kent. Gl. 594.

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