[egesa, egsa] (state of terror, active or passive): l) frightfulness: acc. sg. þurh egsan, [276]; gen. egesan ne gýmeð, cares for nothing terrible, is not troubled about future terrors(?), [1758].—2) terror, horror, fear: nom. sg. egesa, [785]; instr. sg. egesan, [1828], [2737].—Comp.: glêd-, lîg-, wäter-egesa.
[eges-full], adj., horrible (full of fear, fearful), [2930].
[eges-lîc], adj., terrible, bringing terror: of Grendel's head, [1650]; of the beginning of the fight with the drake, [2310]; of the drake, [2826].
[egle], adj., causing aversion, hideous: nom. pl. neut., or, more probably, perhaps, adverbial, egle (MS. egl), [988].
[egsian] (denominative from egesa), w. v., to have terror, distress: pret. (as pluperf.) egsode eorl(?), [6].
[ehtian], w. v., to esteem, to make prominent with praise: III. pl. pres. þät þe ... weras ehtigað, that thee men shall esteem, praise, [1223].
[elde] (those who generate, cf. O.N. al-a, generare), st. m. only in the pl., men: dat. pl. eldum, [2215]; mid eldum, among men, [2612].—See [ylde].
[eldo], st. f., age: instr. sg. eldo gebunden, [2112].
[el-land], st. n., foreign land, exile: acc. sg. sceall ... elland tredan, (shall be banished), [3020].
[ellen], st. n., strength, heroic strength, bravery: nom. sg. ellen, [573]; eafoð and ellen, [903]; Geáta ... eafoð and ellen, [603]; acc. sg. eafoð and ellen, [2350]; ellen cýðan, show bravery, [2696]; ellen fremedon, exercised heroic strength, did heroic deeds, [3]; similarly, ic gefremman sceal eorlîc ellen, [638]; ferh ellen wräc, life drove out the strength, i.e. with the departing life (of the dragon) his strength left him, [2707]; dat. sg. on elne, [2507], [2817]; as instr. þâ wäs ät þam geongum grim andswaru êðbegête þâm þe ær his elne forleás, then it was easy for (every one of) those who before had lost his hero-courage, to obtain rough words from the young man (Wîglâf), [2862]; mid elne, [1494], [2536]; elne, alone, in adverbial sense, strongly, zealously, and with the nearly related meaning, hurriedly, transiently, [894], [1098], [1968], [2677], [2918]; gen. sg. elnes lät, [1530]; þâ him wäs elnes þearf, [2877].—Comp. mägen-ellen.