On-flyge

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - on-flyge

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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on-flyge
m. Infectious disease, disease which, as it were, flies at people:--Ðú miht wið áttre and wið onflyge, Lchdm. iii. 32, 2, 16, 30. preceding word and ongeflogen; and cf. Icel. á-flog, flying at a person, fighting. on-flyge
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