p. -búde, pl. -búdon; pp. -búen, -bún [ge-, búan to dwell]. I. intrans. To dwell, abide; habĭtāre, versāri alĭquo lŏco :-- Hí gebúdon betweoh Capadotiam and Pontum they abode between Cappadocia and Pontus, Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 32, 36. II. inhabĭtāre, incŏlĕre :-- Hú hit [ðæt hús] Hring-Dene gebún hæfdon how the Ring-Danes had occupied it [the house], Beo. Th. 235; B. 117. Ne sceal ðes wong gebúen weorþan nor shall this field be occupied, Exon. 37 a; Th. 120, 24; Gú. 276 : Blickl. Homl. 121, 33. ge-buan