geato-lîc, adj., _well prepared, handsome, splendid_: of sword and armor, 215, 1563, 2155; of Heorot, 308. Adv.: wîsa fengel geatolîc gengde, _passed on in a stately manner_, 1402. geatwe, st. f. pl., _equipment, adornment_: acc. recedes geatwa, _the ornaments of the dragon's cave_ (its treasures), 3089.--Comp.: eóred-, gryre-, gûð-, hilde-, wîg-geatwe. geán (from gegn), adv. in on-geán, adv. and prep., _against, towards_: þät he me ongeán sleá, 682; ræhte ongeán feónd mid folme, 748; foran ongeán, _forward towards_, 2365. With dat.: ongeán gramum, _against the enemy_, 1035. tô-geánes, tô-genes, prep, _against, towards_: Grendle tôgeánes, _towards Grendel, against Grendel_, 667; grâp þâ tôgeánes, _she grasped at_ (Beówulf), 1502; similarly, him tôgeánes fêng, 1543; eodon him þâ tôgeánes, _went towards him_, 1627; hêt þâ gebeódan ... þät hie bæl-wudu feorran feredon gôdum tôgênes, _had it ordered that they should bring the wood from far for the funeral-pyre towards the good man_ (i.e. to the place where the dead Beówulf lay), 3115. geáp, adj., _roomy, extensive, wide_: nom. sg. reced ... geáp, _the roomy hall_, 1801; acc. sg. under geápne hrôf, 837.--Comp.: horn-, sæ-geáp. geâr, st. n., _year_: nom. sg., 1135; gen. pl. geâra, in adverbial sense, olim, _in former times_, 2665. See un-geâra. geâr-dagas, st. m. pl., _former days_: dat. pl. in (on) geâr-dagum, 1, 1355. geofe. See gifu. geofon, gifen, gyfen (see Kuhn Zeitschr. I. 137), st. n., _sea, flood_: nom. sg. geofon, 515; gifen geótende, _the streaming flood_, 1691; gen. sg. geofenes begang, 362; gyfenes, 1395. geogoð, st. f.: 1) _youth, time of youth_: dat. sg. on geogoðe, 409, 466, 2513; on giogoðe, 2427; gen. gioguðe, 2113.--2) contrasted with duguð, _the younger warriors of lower rank_ (about as in the Middle Ages, the squires with the knights): nom. sg. geogoð, 66; giogoð, 1191; acc. sg. geogoðe, 1182; gen. duguðe and geogoðe, 160; duguðe and iogoðe (geogoðe), 1675, 622. geoguð-feorh, st. n., _age of youth_, i.e. age in which one still belongs in the ranks of the geogoð: on geogoð- (geoguð-) feore, 537, 2665. geohðo. See gehðo. geolo, adj., _yellow_: acc. sg. geolwe linde (_the shield of yellow linden bark_), 2611. geolo-rand, st. m., _yellow shield_ (shield with a covering of interlaced yellow linden bark): acc. sg., 438. geond, prep. w. acc., _through, throughout, along, over_: geond þisne middangeard, _through the earth, over the earth_, 75; wide geond eorðan, 266, 3100; fêrdon folctogan ... geond wîd-wegas, _went along the ways coming from afar_, 841; similarly, 1705; geond þät säld, _through the hall, through the extent of the hall_, 1281; similarly, 1982, 2265.