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Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b0556, entry 28
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hran, hron, es; m. A whale, a mussel [?] :-- Hran ballena, Wrt. Voc. 65, 62. Hron ballena vel pilina, 281, 55. Hran musculus, Ælfc. Gl. 102; Som. 77, 78; Wrt. Voc. 56, 1. On huntunge hranes in venationem balenæ, Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 25. Hér beóþ oft fangene seolas and hronas and mereswýn capiuntur sæpissime et vituli marini, et delphines necnon et ballenæ, Bd. 1, 1; L. 473, 16. Hronesnæs, Beo. Th. 5603, 6264; B. 2805, 3136.
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0563, entry 8
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hran. Add: a small kind of whale:--Hran, hron, horn ballena, Txts. 44, 146. Hran oððe hwæl, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10. Manducat unumquodque animal in mari alterum. Et dicunt quod vii minoribus saturantur maiores, ut vii fiscas sélaes fyllu, sifu sélas hronaes fyllu, sifu hronas hualaes fyllu (seven seals are plenty for a smaller whale, and seven smaller whales are plenty for one of the larger kind), An. Ox. 54, § 1. S
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hrane ballená (grandior), 23, 48. Hran ballenam, coetum, 7, 47: ballenam, 4, 16. Ran balenam .i. diabolum (crudelissimam superbiae balenam virtutum devoratricem, Ald. 10, 26. Cf. the poem on the whale), 668.
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b0563, entry 9
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hron, hrond-. v. hran, hrand-.
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0576, entry 7
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hwæl. Add: A large kind of whale (as compared with hran, q.v.) :-- Hran oððe hwæl ballena, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 67. Hwæl ballenam .i. diabolum, An. Ox. 6, 12. God gesceóp þá micelan hwalas (cete grandia), Gen. 1, 21. Hwælas, Angl. viii. 310, 18.
Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0281, entry 45
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hrafn-hvalr, m. [A. S. hran or hren = a whale], a kind of whale, Sks. 123, Edda (Gl.), N. G. L. i. 330.
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