Ymb-clyppan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ymb-clyppan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ymb-clyppan
p. te To embrace, clasp, (1) of persons :-- Ic ymbclyppe ðé complector te, Ælfc. Gr. 19; Zup. 122, 4: amplector, 36; Zup. 214, 5. Ic ymbclyp[p]e obunco, Wrt. Voc. i. 22, 31. Ymbclypte obuncabat (Timotheum ulnarum gremiis procax obuncabat, Ald. 40), ii. 81, 12: 64, 28. (2) of things :-- Ǽghwilc óþer útan ymbclyppeþ. Met. 11. 35. Swá swá lyft and lagu land ymbclyppaþ, 9, 40. Swá ymbclyppaþ cealda brymmas, Chr. 1065; Erl. 197, 31. Fingras þrý útan eáþe ealle mægon mec ymbclyppan, Exon. Th. 425, 9; Rä. 41, 53. Rápas synfulra ymbclyppende syndon (circumplexi sunt) mé, Ps. Lamb. Surt. 118, 61. [Stringes of sinful umclipped me, Ps. 118, 61. Þe cercle þat umbeclypped his croun, Gaw. 616.] ymb-clyppan
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