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  • Ðá gífran

    avida.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. i. 4.
greedy of food.
of persons
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  • Gífre

    ambro

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 49.

  • Gífre, grǽdig consumptor, i. devorator, gluto, 134, I. Etol, gífre edax, i.

    vorax, vorator

    ,
      142, 29.

  • Ðá gífran

    gulae dediti, Past. 308, 15. (l a) as an epithet of the mouth, lips, &c. :-- Smǽrum gífrum (grífrum, MS.) buccis ambronibus, i. cupidis ł auidis

    ,
      An. Ox. 698.

  • Gífrum, 5, 19, (l b) of an action or quality displaying greediness :-- Mid gíferre

    gulosa (fraude

    ,
      Ald. 204, 31), Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 29.
of animals
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  • Swá swá fleógende fugel, ðonne hé gífre (

    avidus

    ) bið, hé gesihð ðæt ǽs, and ðonne for ðǽm luste ðæs metes hé forgiet ðæt grín,
      Past. 331, 17.

  • Ðæs gífran dopfugeles

    voracis mer[g]ule

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 76, 6.

  • Þé sculon moldwyrrnas ceówan . . . swearte wihta gífre and grǽdige, Seel. 74. (2 a) of a quality :-- Of gífre frecinesse

    gulosa ingluvie

    ,
      An. Ox. 4, 37.
of destructive things,
devouring flame, &c.
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  • Þeáh gé mínne flǽschoman forgrípen gífran lége,

      Gú. 346.

  • Rícels gífre gléda bærnað,

      Ps. Th. 140, 2.
greedy of prey or booty,
rapacious, ravenous.
of a person
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  • Ne bið nán heretoga swá gífre on fræmdra manna yrfe swá se unrihtwísa déma byþ on his hýremanna,

      Ll. Lbmn. 475, 18.

  • His (

    Grendel's

    ) módor gífre and galgmód gegán wolde sorhfulne síð,
      B. 1277.

  • Gífrum deófle,

      Sal. 145.

  • Hí (

    the fallen angels'

    ) gedúfan sceoldun in þone deópan wælm . . . grédige and gífre,
      Sat. 32.
  • (l a) of feeling or action

    Wé þurh gífre mód beswican ús sylfe,

      Hö. 95.

  • Deáð hine rǽseð on gífrum grápum,

      Gú. 969.
of a place that receives many victims
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  • Helle grǽdige and gífre,

      Gen. 793.
greedy of money,
covetous
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  • Gífre bið sé þám golde onféhð,

      Gn. Ex. 70.
in a good sense, eagerly desirous for (gen. )
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  • Ic wolde ymbe þone lǽcedóm þára ðínra lára hwéne máre gehýran , . . Ic heora eom swíþe gífre ǽgþer ge tó gehérenne ge eác tó gehealdanne

    remedia . . . audiendi avidus vehementer efflagito

    ,
      Bt. 22, I; F. 76, 20.
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v. feoh-gífre, heoru-gífre, ofer-gífre, orleg-gífre, wæl-gífre.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gífre.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/50724.

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