Hold

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hold

According to the Old English Dictionary:

es; a.

hold
A carcase, body :-- Swá hwǽr swá hold byþ ubicunque fuerit corpus, Mt. Kmbl. 24, 28. Ðá woldon óðre fugelas fleón tó ðam holde descenderunt volucres super cadavera, Gen. 15, 11. Swá swá grǽdige ræmmas ðar ðar hí hold geseóþ like greedy ravens, where they see a carcase, L. Ælfc. P. 49; Th. ii. 386, 3: L. I. P. 19; Th. ii. 328, 5. Tódǽlon ðæs deádan hold him betwýnan cadaver mortui inter se dispertient, Ex. 21, 35. [Þu fule hold olidum cadaver, O. E. Homl. ii. 183, 15: Icel. hold flesh.] hold
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