Hǽþ

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hǽþ

f Drynessfrom /teat, parched condition :-- Mycel hǽte ferfor, swaloð cauma, drúgað oððe hǽð siccitas, Wrt. Voc. i. 76, 77. [Cf. O. H. Ger. hei uredo, ge-hei cauma; ar-, far-heién.] See next word, and hǽþung, for-hǽþan. hæþ