full-gangan, _to emulate, to follow after_: pret. sg. þonne ... sceft nytte heóld, feðer-gearwum fûs flâne full-eode, _when the shaft had employment, furnished with feathers it followed the arrow, did as the arrow_, 3120. ge-gân, ge-gangan: 1) _to go, to approach_: inf. (w. acc.) his môdor ... gegân wolde sorhfulne sîð, 1278; se þe gryre-sîðas gegân dorste, _who dared to go the ways of terror_ (to go into the combat), 1463; pret. sg. se maga geonga under his mæges scyld elne geeode, _went quickly under his kinsman's shield_, 2677; pl. elne geeodon tô þäs þe ..., _went quickly thither where_ ..., 1968; pret. part. syððan hie tô-gädre gegân häfdon, _when they_ (Wîglâf and the drake) _had come together_, 2631; þät his aldres wäs ende gegongen, _that the end of his life had come_, 823; þâ wäs endedäg gôdum gegongen, þät se gûðcyning ... swealt, 3037.--2) _to obtain, to reach_: inf. (w. acc.) þonne he ät gûðe gegân þenceð longsumne lof, 1536; ic mid elne sceall gold gegangan, 2537; gerund, näs þät ýðe ceáp tô gegangenne gumena ænigum, 2417; pret. pl. elne geeodon ... þät se byrnwîga bûgan sceolde, 2918; pret. part. häfde ... gegongen þät, _had attained it, that_ ..., 894; hord ys gesceáwod, grimme gegongen, 3086.--3) _to occur, to happen_: pres. sg. III. gif þät gegangeð þät ..., _if that happen, that_ ..., 1847; pret. sg. þät geiode ufaran dôgrum hilde-hlämmum, _it happened in later times to the warriors_ (the Geátas), 2201; pret. part. þâ wäs gegongen guman unfrôdum earfoðlîce þät, _then it had happened to the young man in sorrowful wise that_ ..., 2822. ôð-gangan, _to-go thither_: pret. pl. oð þät hi ôðeodon ... in Hrefnesholt, 2935. ofer-gangan, w. acc., _to go over_: pret. sg. ofereode þâ äðelinga bearn steáp stân-hliðo, _went over steep, rocky precipices_, 1409; pl. freoðo-wong þone forð ofereodon, 2960. ymb-gangan, w. acc., _to go around_: pret. ymb-eode þâ ides Helminga duguðe and geogoðe dæl æghwylcne, _went around in every part, among the superior and the inferior warriors_, 621. gâr, st. m., _spear, javelin, missile_: nom. sg., 1847, 3022; instr. sg. gâre, 1076; blôdigan gâre, 2441; gen. sg. gâres fliht, 1766; nom. pl. gâras, 328; gen. pl., 161(?).--Comp.: bon-, frum-gâr. gâr-cêne, adj., _spear-bold_: nom. sg., 1959. gâr-cwealm, st. m., _murder, death by the spear_: acc. sg. gâr-cwealm gumena, 2044. gâr-holt, st. n., _forest of spears_, i.e. crowd of spears: acc. sg., 1835. gâr-secg, st. m. (cf. Grimm, in Haupt l. 578), _sea, ocean_: acc. sg. on gâr-secg, 49, 537; ofer gâr-secg, 515. gâr-wîga, w. m., _one who fights with the spear_: dat. sg. geongum gâr-wîgan, of Wîglâf, 2675, 2812. gâr-wîgend, pres. part., _fighting with spear, spear-fighter_: acc. pl. gâr-wîgend, 2642.