Stregdan

; ic stregde, strigde, stréde, hé stregdeþ, strigdeþ, strét; p. (strong) strægd, pl. strugdon and strǽdon (but the form may be weak = strægdon) : (weak) stregde, strédde, strugde (North.); pp. (strong) strogden : (weak) stregd, stréded, stréd To strew, spread, scatter, sprinkle. I. to strew something :-- Se ðe ne somnigas streigdæs que non congregat, spargit. Mt. Kmbl. 12, 30. Geswerc swé swé eascan strigdeþ (spargit), Ps. Surt. 147, 16. Monige ðæt wæter on ádlige men strédaþ. Bd. 3, 2; S. 524, 32. Se wind se ðe ða bærnnisse in ða burg strægd ventus qui urbi incendia sparserat, 2, 7; S. 509, 28. Óðre ða telge strédun (sternebant) on ðone woeg. Mk. Skt. Rush. II. 8. Ðú somnas ðér ðú ne strugdes (sparsisti) . . . Ic somnigo ðǽr ic ne strugde (strægde, Rush.: strédde, W. S. sparsi), Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 25, 24, 26. Ðæt áttor on eallutn cyricum hé stregde (aspersit), Bd. I. 8 ; S. 479, 35. Sió mængu strægdun hrægl heora on ðæm wege, sume telgran strægdun on ðæm wege, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 21, 8. Nim ðæs hornes acxan and stréd, Lchdm. i. 334, 17. Stréd on hálig wæter sprinkle holy water on, iii. 56, II, 18. On ðæs feóndes feax flána stregdan, Salm. Kmbl. 262 ; Sal. 130. Stregdende weter aspargens aquas, Ps. Surt. ii. p. 190, 9. Wæs heora lár sáwen and strogden betuh feówer sceátum middangeardes. Blickl. Homl. 133, 33. Wæs him morþorbed stréd, Beo. Th. 4864; B. 2436. II. to sprinkle a place with something :-- Ðú strédest (ástregdest, MS. T.) mé mid hysopon asperges me hysopo, Ps. Spl. 50, 8. Stréde man hit mid háligwætere aspergatur aqua benedicta, L. Ecg. P. iIII. intrans. To scatter, disperse :-- Steorran strédaþ of heofone, stormum ábeátne, Exon. Th. 58, 24; Cri. 940, Stregdaþ tóðas, Salm. Kmbl. 230; Sal. 114. Hí tó scipon stréddon they dispersed to their ships, Chr. 1010; Erl. 144, 3. IV. to lay in order (?) :-- Streide struere (struerem?), strídae, streide struere, Txts. 99, 1910.