Leóma

According to the Old English Dictionary:

leóma

Add: I. radiance, splendour :-- Leóma iuvar, Txts. 72, 554. Seó sunne hæfð ðreó ágennyssa on hire; óðer is se leóma oððe beorhtnys ǽfre of ðǽre sunnan, seó ðe onlíht ealne middangeard, Hml. Th. i. 282, 9. Þonne se móna beó full, and his leóma ealne middaneard oferscíne, Angl. viii. 323, 6. Glitenode gelícnys þǽre Crístes róde breohtre þonne sunnan leóma, Hml. S. 30, 43. Úp ásprungum leóman exorto (solis) jubare, i. splendore, An. Ox. 88. II. a ray, portion of brilliant light. (1) of the light of a heavenly body :-- Swá under ánum leóman þǽre sunnan (ánum sunnan leóman, ) sub uno solis radio, Gr. D. 171, 12. Under ánum leóman (sunnan leóman, v. l.), 172, 22: An. Ox. 2970. Reáde leóman roseos radios, 18, 24. (2) of other light, e. g. a tongue of flame :-- Leóma, leúma globus, Txts. 66, 478. Leóman radio (angelus limpidissimo lucis radio resplehdens, Ald. 52, 2), An. Ox. 3772. Leómum (flammarum) globis, 2813. Leóman (clibani) globos, 1658. [v. N. E. D. leám.] v. dægred-, sunnan-leóma. leoma

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