Líf-leást

Old English Dictionary Entry

Líf-leást

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -lǽst, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 líf-leást

f. Loss of life, death :-- On ǽlcum ðara daga gif man ǽnige ǽddran geopenaþ on ðara tíde ðæt hit biþ lífleást oððe langsum sár on each of those days, if a vein be opened at that hour, it is death or long disease, Lchdm. iii. 152, 5. Bendas oððe dyntas hwílum líflǽsta bonds or blows, at times death, L. Pen. 3; Th. ii. 278, 27. lif-least

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ᛚᛁᚠ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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