ge-dælan: 1) _to distribute_: inf. (w. acc. _of the thing distributed_); bær on innan eall gedælan geongum and ealdum swylc him god sealde, _distribute therein to young and old all that God had given him_, 71.--2) _to divide, to separate_, with acc.: inf. sundur gedælan lîf wið lîce, _separate life from the body_, 2423; so pret. subj. þät he gedælde ... ânra gehwylces lîf wið lîce, 732. denn (cf. denu, dene, vallis), st. n., _den, cave_: acc. sg. þäs wyrmes denn, 2761; gen. sg. (draca) gewât dennes niósian, 3046. ge-defe, adj.: 1) (impersonal) _proper, appropriate_: nom. sg. swâ hit gedêfe wäs (bið), _as was appropriate, proper_, 561, 1671, 3176.--2) _good, kind, friendly_; nom sg. beó þu suna mînum dædum gedêfe, _be friendly to my son by deeds_ (support my son in deed, namely, when he shall have attained to the government), 1228.--Comp. un-ge-dêfelîce. dêman (see dôm), w. v.: 1) _to judge, to award justly_: pres. subj. mærðo dême, 688.--2) _to judge favorably, to praise, to glorify_: pret. pl. his ellenweorc duguðum dêmdon, _praised his heroic deed with all their might_, 3176. dêmend, _judge_: dæda dêmend (of God), 181. deal, adj., "superbus, clarus, fretus" (Grimm): nom. pl. þryðum dealle, 494. deád, adj., _dead_: nom. sg. 467, 1324, 2373; acc. sg. deádne, 1310. deáð, st. m., _death, dying_: nom. sg, deáð, 441, 447, etc.; acc. sg. deáð, 2169; dat. sg. deáðe, 1389, 1590, (as instr.) 2844, 3046; gen. sg. deáðes wylm, 2270; deáðes nýd, 2455.--Comp. gûð-, wäl-, wundor-deáð. deáð-bed, st. n., _death-bed_: dat. sg. deáð-bedde fäst, 2902. deáð-cwalu, st. f., _violent death_, _ruin and death_: dat. pl. tô deáð-cwalum, 1713. deáð-cwealm, st. m., _violent death, murder_: nom. sg. 1671. deáð-däg, st. m., _death-day, dying day_: dat. sg. äfter deáð-däge (_after his death_), 187, 886. deáð-fæge, adj., _given over to death_: nom. sg. (Grendel) deáð-fæge deóg, _had hidden himself, being given over to death_ (mortally wounded), 851. deáð-scûa, w. m., _death-shadow, ghostly being, demon of death_: nom. sg. deorc deáð-scûa (of Grendel), 160. deáð-wêrig, adj., _weakened by death_, i.e. dead: acc. sg. deáð-wêrigne, 2126. See wêrig. deáð-wîc, st. n. _death's house, home of death_: acc. sg. gewât deáðwîc seón (_had died_), 1276. deágan (O.H.G. pret. part. tougan, _hidden_), _to conceal one's self, to hide_: pret. (for pluperf.) deóg, 851.--Leo. deorc, adj., _dark_: of the night, nom. sg. (nihthelm) deorc, 1791; dat. pl. deorcum nihtum, 275, 2212; of the terrible Grendel, nom. sg. deorc deáð-scûa, 160. deófol, st. m. n., _devil_: gen. sg. deófles, 2089; gen. pl. deófla, of Grendel and his troop, 757, 1681. deógol, dýgol, adj., _concealed, hidden, inaccessible, beyond information, unknown_: nom. sg. deógol dædhata (of Grendel), 275; acc. sg. dýgel lond, _inaccessible land_, 1358. deóp, st. n., _deep, abyss_: acc. sg., 2550. deóp, adv. _deeply_: acc. sg. deóp wäter, 509, 1905.