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w. dat. nǣnegum
ārað; of Grendel, 599.

ār-stæf, st. m. ,(elementum honoris), _grace, favor_: dat. pl. mid ārstafum,
317. --_Help, support_: dat. pl. for ār-stafum, _to the assistance_, 382,
458. See stæf.

āter-tēar, m. , _poisonous drop_: dat. pl.
īren āter-tēarum fāh (steel which
is dipped in poison or in poisonous sap of plants), 1460.

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æðele, adj. , _noble_: nom. sg. , of Bēowulf, 198, 1313; of Bēowulf's father,
263, where it can be understood as well in a moral as in a genealogical
sense; the latter prevails decidedly in the gen. sg. æðelan cynnes, 2235.

æðeling, st. m. , _nobleman, man of noble descent_, especially the
appellation of a man of royal birth; so of the kings of the Danes, 3; of
Scyld, 33; of Hrōðgār, 130; of Sigemund, 889; of Bēowulf, 1226, 1245, 1597,
1816, 2189, 2343, 2375, 2425, 2716, 3136; perhaps also of Dæghrefn,
2507;--then, in a broader sense, also denoting other noble-born men:
Æschere, 1295; Hrōðgār's courtiers, 118, 983; Heremōd's courtiers, 907;
Hengest's warriors, 1113; Bēowulf's retinue, 1805, 1921, 3172; noble-born
in general, 2889. --Comp. sib-æðeling.

æðelu, st. n. , only in the pl. , _noble descent, nobility_, in the sense of
noble lineage: acc.