, _variegated with bones_, either with
ornaments
made of
bone-work, or adorned with bone, perhaps deer-antlers; of Hrōðgār's hall,
781.
Beowulf
, _pledge_, only in comp.: nȳd-bād.
bān, st. n., _bone_: dat. sg. on bāne (on the bony skin of the drake),
2579; dat. pl. heals ealne ymbefēng biteran bānum (here of the teeth of the
drake), 2693.
bān-cofa, w. m., "cubile ossium" (Grimm) of the body: dat. sg. -cofan,
1446.
bān-fāg, adj.
, _variegated with bones_, either with
ornaments
made of
bone-work, or adorned with bone, perhaps deer-antlers; of Hrōðgār's hall,
781.
The last meaning seems the more probable.
bān-fæt, st. n., _bone-vessel_, i.e. the body: acc. pl. bān-fatu, 1117.
bān-hring, st. m., _the bone-structure, joint, bone-joint_: acc. pl. hire
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