Neowol
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - neowol
According to the Old English Dictionary:
nifol, nihol, nihold, neól, niwol;
- neowol
- adj. I. prone, prostrate :-- Nihol pronus, Ep. Gl. 20 b, 2. Nihold, Wrt. Voc. ii. 118, 20. Hwí líst ðú neowel on eorþan cur jaces pronus in terra? Jos. 7, 10. Hé feóll niwel on ða eorþan, Gen. 33, 3. Niwol, Bt. 1 ; Fox 4, 3. Neowol, Met. 1, 80. Ðǽrrihte férde eall seó heord myclum onrǽse niwel on sǽ ecce impetu abiit totus grex per praeceps in mare, Mt. Kmbl. 8, 32. Neól ic fére, Exon. Th. 403, 2; Rä. 22, 1. Hít swá niowul (prostrate) up árǽrde, Bt. 3, 1 ; Fox 4, 26. Neowle nihtscúwan the shades of night that had settled down upon earth, Cd. Th. 184, 28; Exod. 114. Ða neowelan cernua, Wrt. Voc. ii. 18, 14 : 78. 59. Neóle cernuas, 83, 3. Nióle, 18, 42. Nifle nædran cynn serpentes, Ps. Th. 148, 10. II. deep down, low, profound (infima, 110, 73. Under neólum niþer næsse deep underground, Elen. Kmbl. 1660; El. 832. In ðam neólan scræfe in that deepest den (hell), Exon. Th. 283, 23; Jul. 684. In ðissum neowlan genipe (hell), Cd. Th. 271, 7 ; Sat. 102. In ðone neowlan grund to that profound abyss, 267, 1 ; Sat. 31 : 270, 16; Sat. 91. In ðis neowle genip, 275, 31 ; Sat. 180 : 292, 25 ; Sat. 446. Drihten for ðé of ðæm heán heofone on ðás neowlan gesceaft niðer ástáh for thee the Lord descended from the high heaven to this lower world, L. E. I. prm. ; Th. ii. 396, 2. Gé beóþ forǽltene on ðone neowlan helle seáð ye shall be dismissed to the bottomless pit, 396, 18. Gǽst ellor hwearf under neowelne næs, Judth. Thw. 23, 9; Jud. 113. Sunne gewát tó sete glídan under niflan næs, Andr. Kmbl. 2611 ; An. 1307. Nyþer gefeallaþ under neowulne grund descendunt usque ad abyssos, Ps. Th. 106, 25. Neowle næssas low-lying headlands, Beo. Th. 2826 ; B.1411; Niþer under næssas, neóle grundas (hell), Exon. Th. 136, 3; Gú. 535. neowol