causal: l) _on account of, for the sake of, owing
to_: þurh slīðne nīð (_through fierce hostility, heathenism_), 184; þurh
holdne hige (_from friendliness_), 267; so, þurh rūmne sefan, 278; þurh
sīdne sefan, 1727; ēoweð þurh egsan
uncūðne
nīð (_shows unheard-of
hostility by the terror he causes_), 276; so, 1102, 1336, 2046.
Beowulf
.
sēcean þurfe, 2496; pret.
sg.
þorfte, 157, 1027, 1072, 2875, 2996; pl.
nealles Hetware hrēmge þorfton (i.
e.
wesan) fēðe-wīges (_needed not boast
of their foot-fight_), 2365.
ge-þuren.
See þweran.
þurh, prep.
w.
acc.
signifying motion through, hence: I.
local, _through,
throughout_: wōd þā þurh þone wæl-rēc (_went then through the
battle-reek_), 2662.
--II.
causal: l) _on account of, for the sake of, owing
to_: þurh slīðne nīð (_through fierce hostility, heathenism_), 184; þurh
holdne hige (_from friendliness_), 267; so, þurh rūmne sefan, 278; þurh
sīdne sefan, 1727; ēoweð þurh egsan
uncūðne
nīð (_shows unheard-of
hostility by the terror he causes_), 276; so, 1102, 1336, 2046.
2) _by
means of, through_: heaðo-rǣs for-nam mihtig mere-dēor þurh mīne hand, 558;
þurh ānes cræft, 700; so, 941, 1694, 1696, 1980, 2406, 3069.
þus, adv.
, _so, thus_, 238, 337, 430.
þunian, w.
v.
, _to din, sound forth_: pret.
sg.
sund-wudu þunede, 1907.
þūsend, num.
, _thousand_: 1) fem.
acc.
ic þē þūsenda þegna bringe tō helpe,
1830.
--2) neut.
with measure of value (sceat) omitted: acc.
seofan þūsendo,
2196; gen.
