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ocean, sea as opposed to land or air
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  • Sǽ mare vel aequor, gársecg

    oceanus

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 64.
  • Folde . . . , gársecg,

      Gen. 117.
  • Ealne middangeard yrnbféran swá gársecg (

    oceanus

    ) beligeð,
      Nar. 20, 15.
  • Swá swá lyft and lagu land ymbclyppað, gársecg embegyrt gumena ríce,

      Met. 9, 41.
  • Gársecg fandað hwæðer ác hæbbe æðele treówe,

      Rún. 25.
  • Þú gársecges grundas geworhtes,

      Hy. 10, 7.
  • Gár-secges gæst (

    the whale

    ),
      Wal. 29.
  • On gársecge

    oceano

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 68.
  • Seó ðridde India líð tó ðám micclum gársecge . . . hæfð on óðere sídan ðone grimlican gársecg,

      Hml. Th. i. 454, 13-15.
  • Hé gesette þone gársecg on his goldhorde,

      Ps. Th. 32, 6.
  • Þone wídgyllan gársecg. Hml. A. 3, 53: Ph. 289: An. 371.
a particular part of the general body of water, an ocean
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  • Se gársecg þe man hǽt Brittan-isca . . . on óðre healfe þæs gársecges earme is Brittannia,

      Ors. 1, 1; S. 22, 24.
  • Oð ðone gársecg

    usque ad oceanum Aeihiopicum

    ,
      S. 26, 10, 16, 24, 26.
  • v. eást-, súþ-, út-gársecg; and secg sea.
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