Líf-leás

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

líf-leás
Add: I. that has ceased to live :-- Sum man . . . his feorh forlét. . . . Se hálga wer geneálǽhte þám lífleásan men (cf. þone sáwlleásan líchaman, Hml. S. 31, 249), Hml. Th. ii. 504, 35. II. not endowed with life :-- Geoffrian heora lac þám lífleásum godum. Hml. S. 29, 278. II a. not having animal life: -- Þá treówa þe on æppel-túne wexað, þá þe sind llfleáse, sáwulleáse, and andgitleáse, Hml. Th. ii. 406, 11. lif-leas
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