Leóf

According to the Old English Dictionary:

leóf

Add: I. as adj. :-- Leóf carus, þurhlád odiosus, Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 65. (l) of persons :-- Leófre optate (generationis), An. Ox. 3369. Leó(fe) dulcia (natorum pignora), 220. (1 a) as an epithet in address; see preceding word :-- Leófan men, Wlfst. 6, 2 ( and often). Men þá leófestan 232, 12. (2) of things :-- Mid leófre férrǽdene contuberniali sodalitate, An. Ox. 2353. Ðé is leófre on ðisum wácum scræfum ðonne ðú on healle heálic biscop sitte, Hml. Th. ii. 146, 27. Biþ hit swá him leófost bið, Lch. ii. 144, 23: By. 23. Mé is eal leófast þæt þé láþost is, Ors. 5, 12; S. 242, 9. II. as subst. (1) of persons, a dear one, friend, leman (N. E. D. lief, 3b) :-- Ne biþ hé Godes leóf, Bl. H. 21, 35, Leóf succubam, Germ. 394, 192. (2) of things :-- Leóf áláþað amor abolescit, Angl. ii. 374, 3. Nán wiht ne þæs leófes ne þæs láðes, Wlfst. 185, 1. v. efen-, ge-, híred-(?)leóf leof