Leahter
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - leahter
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- leahter
- Add: [The word is made feminine in Hml. S. 16, 306 :-- Seó eahteóðe leahter, but in other MSS. it is masculine, and so in the other seven instances] :-- Scyld, lehter, mándǽd crimen, i. peccatum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 2. Hwæt ne cann sé ðe ealle ðing cann ? Hé ne cann nǽnne leahter, and hí wǽron mid leahtrum áfyllede, Hml. Th. ii. 572, 35. Ne mæg synne on mé fácnes frumbearn fyrene gestǽlan, líces leahtor, Gú. 1045. Þæs líchoman leah ILLEGIBLE as and þá unþeáwas, Met. 22, 25. Leahtra conuitiorum, An. Ox. 5363. Leahtra firene geseón on þám sáwlum, Cri. 1281. Gelácnigan leahtra gehwylcne, yfel unclǽne, 1309. Líchoman leahtra clǽne, Ph. 518. Fácnes clǽne, leahtra leáse, Jul. 566. Leahtrum flagitiis, An. Ox. 2678. Lahgtrum l gyltum facinoribus, 4, 50. Lehtrum scyldige, An. 1218. Lǽnan lífes leahtras, Ph. 456. Forgif ús gyltas and synna, and úre leahtras álǽt, líces wunda, and mándǽda, Hy. 6, 20, 23.