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Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0115, entry 43
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camb. Add: I. comb for the hair :-- Genim þone camb þe heó ána hyre heáfod mid cemde . . . on þám cambe geþolige, gesomnige, Lch. i. 332, 11-15. Þ-bar; feax þe on þám cambe cleofige, 21. Ic his heáfod mid gambe gekamde, C. D. iv. 261, 2. II. crest, (1) comb of a bird :-- Combas on fugele cristas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 7. Cambas cristas (of cocks), An. Ox. 26, 16. Byð óðer fugelcynn fénix hátte, þá habbað cambas (cristas) on heáfde swá páwan, Nar. 39, 3. (a) crest of a helmet :-- Cambe helmes crista cassidis, An. Ox. 5019. [For Cot. 46 in Dict. l. Wrt. Voc. ii. 19, lo.] v. hors-camb.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0341, entry 18
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ge-hilmed; adj. I. having a helmet, helmed :-- Gehyltned galeatum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 9. II. having foliage (v. helm; II) :-- Þm gehilmdum grfum frondosis dumis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 93, 75 : 37, 36. [O. H. Ger. ge-hilmit frutectum; ge-hilmi frutecta.] Cf. ge-helmian.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0530, entry 12
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helm. Add: I. a covering for the head. (l) a helmet :-- Helm galea, Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 10: cassium, ii. 103, 38: 14, 5: 129, 24. Þr wæs helm monig, eald and ómig, B. 2762. Helm sceal cénum, On. Ex. 205. Wæs of þm hróran helm and byrne álýsed, B. 1629. Wæs his helm þyrl, Fin. 45. Helmes cassidis, Wrt. Voc. ii 103, 34: 13, 61: 129, 25 : An. Ox. 2, 417. Ymb þæs helmes hróf heáfodbeorge wírum bewunden wál an útan heóld, B 1032. Ecg sceal wið helme hilde gebídan, Gn. C. 16. Sweord swín oter helme ecgum dyhtig andweard scireð, B. 1286. Seó ecg helm oft gescær, 1526: 2973. Þonne rond and hand on herefelda helm ealgodon, An. 10. Módcræftig smið gewyrced tó wera hilde helm oððe hupseax, Crii. 64. Helmas cassida, Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, Fóron tó gefeohte hæleð under helmum, Jud. 203. Hæleð . . . helmum þeahte, Gen. 1089. Ád helmum behong. n, hilde-bordum beorhtum byrnum, B. 3139. epithets of the helmet are brún, Jud. 318 : brún-fáh, B. 2615 : entisc, B. 2979: gold-fáh, B. 2811: heard, B. 2255 : heaþo-steáp, B. 1245 : 2153 : hefig, Hml. Th. ii. 502. 12 : hwít, B. 1448 : scír, Jud. 193. (l a) where the helm has a technical significance :-- Eorles heregeata syndon . . . feówer helmas and feówer byrnan . . . Cyninges þegenes . . . helm mid byrnan, Ll. Th. i. 414, 4-11. Of viii hídum helm and byrnan, Chr. 1008; P. 138, 6. Þeán ceorlisc geþeó hé hæbbe helm and byrnan . . . gif hé land nafað hé bið ceorl swá þeáh, Ll. Th. i. 188, 8. (2) a crown, diadem :-- Sitt þonne swegles brytta on heáhsetle helme beweorðod (gewurþod, Wlfst. 137, 17), Dóm. L. 118. Cóm se deófol mid purpuran gescrýd and mid helme (mid gyldenum cynehelme, Hml. S. 31, 752) geglengd, Hml. Th. ii. 512, 24. Mid helme (cynehelme, Hml. S. 31, 764), 30. Aman geldde Mardocheum, mid helme (cf. cynehelm diadema 232) gescrýdne, Hml. A. 99, 242. Ðurh ðone ðyrnenan helm on ðone Hlend beslagen, Hml. Th. ii. 254, 10. II. the top, crown of a thing, mostly of the foliage of a tree or plant. v. helm-bre, helmiht :-- Geþúf fícbeám vel helm frondea ficus, Wrt. Voc ii. 151, 16. Coppe helmes (sub) cono (sublimi) verticis. l. capitis (arboris), An. Ox. 1564 Mid wexendum helme florenti fronde, 1132. Ic sæt innan bearwe min helme beþeht, Dóm. L. 2. Helm conum, -Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 24. Geþúfe beámas vel helmas frondea robora, Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 13. Huni-brum clfran helmum melligeris caltarum frondibus, An. Ox. 95: 924. III. cover, concealment :-- Nó heó on helm losað, ne on foldan fæðm, ne on fyrgenholt, ne on gyfenes grund, gá þr heó wille she will not escape into concealment, neither into earth's bosom, nor into the mountain wood, nor into ocean's depths, go where she will, B. 1392. III a. a covering :-- Helme porticulo (cf. porticulus minor porticus seu aedicula quae stpulcris mortuorum superstruebatur, Migne. But porticulus in the passage glossed, Aid. 3, 3, is the hammer used in giving signals to rowers), An Ox. 33. Helme tiro (the line to which the gloss belongs is : Sed tyro infracta tectus testudine Christi, Ald. 210, 12 ; helme seems to belong to testudine], Wrt. Voc. ii. 97, 7. v. cyne-, ísern-, leþer-, wuldor-helm.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0568, entry 2
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hróf. Add: I. the outside upper covering of a building, ceiling of a room, upper surface of a cave, &c.:--Hróf lacuna[r], Txts. 76, 109: lacunar, Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 55: camara, 17, 16; tholus (tholus tectum de petris sine ligno, Ld. Gl. H. 40, 19), 122, 30. Wæs þæt bold tóbrocen swíðe . . . hróf ána genæs ealles ansund, B. 999. Of þám stáne þre ciricean hrófes, Bl. H. 209, 1. Gebrosnad is hús under hrófe, Cri. 14. On heáhsetlum hrófe getenge celsos solil culmine, Met. 25, 5. Gif mon on níwne weall unádrúgodne micelne hróf and hefigne on sett, Past. 383, 32. Hí openodon þone hróf (tectum), Mk. 2, 4. Hé geseah steápne hróf golde fáhne, B. 926. Hrófas tecta, An. Ox. 2257. Hrófum oððe bígelsum arcibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 79. I a. used of the covering of a pit where some one is hiding:--Hrófes tecta et tigilli (cisternae latebram . . . quae lymphis vacua praestabat tecta tigilli, Ald. 1648), Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 40. I b. in phrases that denote entering, or being in, a house, chamber:--Þæt hié bewisten eal licgende feoh under ánum hrófe, Ors. 2, 4; S. 72, 5. Hrófe tigillo (in proprii domatis tigillo conflagrasse memoratur, Ald. 38, 22), An. Ox. 2, 110. Biðon tuoege in hrófe ánum, Lk. L. R. 17, 34. Under þám fýrenan hrófe in the fiery furnace, Dan. 239. Snyredon ætsomne under Heorotes hróf, B. 403. Under geápne hróf, 836. Eall under hróf gefór all entered the ark, Gen. 1360. Ne wyrðe am te under hróf mínum inngáe, Lk. L. 7, 6. Róf, Mt. L. 8, 8. I c. house-top as the most public place to proclaim anything:--Ðætte in eárum gihérdest and sprecende gé wérun in cotum ábodad bið on hrófum, Lk. R. L. 12, 3. Ofer hrófa, Mt. L. 10, 27. I d. where a part represents the whole(?) a house v. hrófleás; II. II. something which in form or function may be compared to the covering of a house:--Helmes hróf the covering which the helmet forms, B. 1030. Beorges hróf the roof which the hill makes for the cave in its side, 2755. Wætera hrófas the waves that curled their heads over those waiting over the bottom of the Red Sea, Exod. 571. used of the sky, clouds, &c., considered as the roof of the world:--Under rodores hrófe, Hy. 5, 5. Ofer ðone heán hróf þæs heofones, Bt. 36, 2; F. 174, 5. Oþ wolcna hróf, Exod. 298. Hyrstedne hróf hálgum tunglum, Gen. 656. Ofer worulde hróf, Dan. 407. III. the roof of the mouth:--Hrófes and gómena palati et faucium, Germ. 392, 6. IV. the top of anything, the highest point:--Ic eów mæg gereccan hwæt se hróf is eallra geslþa ostendam tibi summae cardinem felicitatis, Bt. 11, 2; F. 34, 7. Hrófe apice, Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 56. Þe;áh man gesette án brád ísen þell ofer þæs fýres hróf, Wlfst. 147, 3. Cwóm wiht ofer wealles hróf, Rä. 30, 7. v. first-, múþ-hróf.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0597, entry 27
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ísern-helm on iron helmet :-- Irsenhelm (Wrighi prints íren) cassis, Wulck. Gl. 142, 2.


Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0025, entry 5
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arin-greypr, adj. occurs thrice in poetry as an epithet of the benches in a hall and of a helmet, encompassing the hearth, or shaped as an eagle's bill, Akv. 1, 3. 17.


Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0041, entry 157
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ár-hjálmr, m. an helmet of brass, A. S. âr = eir, Hkm. 3.


Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0051, entry 21
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bar-átta, u, f. [North. E. barett obsolete], gener. a fight, contest: . a row, Gþl. 176. . a fight, battle, Fas. i. 26. . now freq., esp. = strife, contest. COMPDS: baráttu-maðr, m. a warrior, þiðr. 67. baráttu-samr, adj. troublesome, Barl. 137. barberr, m. (for. word), a barber, N. G. L. iii. no. 15. BARÐ, n. [identical in etymology but not in sense to Lat. barba, Engl. beard, Germ, bart; the Scandin. dialects all call the beard skegg; Swed. skägg; Dan. skjœg; barð in the sense of barba is quite alien from the Scandin. idioms; the passages, Edda 109 (skegg heitir barð) and höggva börðum í gras, Id. UNCERTAIN 12, a poem of the end of the 13th century, are isolated instances: bart in Dan. is a mod. word] :-- Lat. ora, margo: . a brim of a helmet or hat (hjálmbarð, hattbarð), Fas. iii. 341. . the verge, edge of a hill (holtbarð, túnbarð, brekkubarð, hólbarð, etc.), freq. in local names of farms in Icel. . the wing or side fin of some fishes, e. g. whales, cp. barðhvalr; of flat fishes, raja


Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0071, entry 68
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bol-hlíf, f. a covering for the body, opp. to the helmet, Bs. i. 667.


Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0084, entry 20
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brúskr, m. a 'brush,' tuft of hair, crest of a helmet, etc.


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