Hlosnian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hlosnian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hlosnian
Add: I. to listen with astonishment, listen spellbound :-- Hlosnendum attonis. l. attonitis, Ald. 32, ii. see An. Ox. 2333 under hlosnere), Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 21. Tō hircniendum odde hlosnendum attonitis, 2, 47. II. to listen as an eavesdropper or spy :-- Gelamp hit ꝥ sume hlosniende menn dǣr betweónan eódon and þisra seofona georne hēddon, Hml. S. 23, 136.

Related words: hlysnan. hlosnian

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