Willan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - willan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

willan
p. de. I. to boil (trans. ) :-- Wyl (wel, ) on wætere . . . wyl on ealdan wīne, Lchdm. i. 72, 7, 23. Wel on buteran, ii. 22, 25. Wæl, i. 374, 8. Wæll, 378, 3. II. fig. to torment, agitate, with violent feelings (cf. figurative uses of weallan and seóþan) :-- Hē wylleþ hine on dam wīte, wunaþ unlustum he gives himself no peace in that pain, lives unpleasingly, Salm. Kmbl. 537 ; Sal. 268. [þe caliz þet was imelt ide fure and stroncliche iwelled, A. R. 284, 20. A chetel of iwelled bras, Jul. 82, 54. Welled led molten lead, H. R. 59, 501. Icel. vella to boil (trans.).] v. a-, be-, ge-, ofer-, on-willan (-wellan, -wyllan). willan

Related words: l.

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