Leás-bregd

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - leás-bregd

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-bréd, es;

leás-bregd
m. Deceit, fraud, a trick, cheat, wile :-- Hé hiwode þurh drýcræft fela leásbregda he performed many tricks by magic, Wulfst. 99, 16. Swicol on dǽdum and on leásbregdum, 107, 2. Þurh his leásbregdas, 252, 19. Mid leásbregdum earmum mannum derian to harm poor men with tricks, L. I. P. 12; Th. ii. 320, 25. leas-bregd
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