m. I. mortality, pestilence:?-Sceal áspringan wíde and síde stric and steorfa and fela ungelimpa, Wulfst. 86, 12: 159, 10. Gif hit geweorðe ðæt folce mislimpe þurh here oðþon hungor, þurh stric oððe steorfan, L. P. 18; Th. ii. 324, 29. II. flesh of animals that have died a natural death:?-Se ðe steorfan ete qui morticinam ederit, L. Ecg. P. iIII. a place where death has taken place(?):--Andlang móres tó síferþingcsteorfan, Cod. Dip. B. i. 296, 34. [Stala and steorfa swiðe eow seal hene, O. E. Homl. i. 13, 29. O. Sax. man-sterbo: O. H. Ger. sterbo pestis, cladis, pestilentia.]