[earm], st. m., arm: acc. sg. earm, [836], [973]; wið earm gesät, supported himself with his arm, [750]; dat. pl. earmum, [513].

[a]earm], adj., poor, miserable, unhappy: nom. sg. earm, [2369]; earme ides, the unhappy woman, [1118]; dat. sg. earmre teohhe, the unhappy band, [2939].—Comp. acc. sg. earmran mannan, a more wretched, more forsaken man, [577].

[earm-beág], st. m., arm-ring, bracelet: gen. pl. earm-beága fela searwum gesæled, many arm-rings interlaced, [2764].

[earm-hreád], st. f., arm-ornament. nom. pl. earm-hreáde twâ, [1195] (Grein's conjecture, MS. earm reade).

[earm-lîc], adj., wretched, miserable: nom. sg. sceolde his ealdor-gedâl earmlîc wurðan, his end should be wretched, [808].

[earm-sceapen], pret. part. as adj. (properly, wretched by the decree of fate), wretched: nom. sg. [1352].

[earn], st. m., eagle: dat. sg. earne, [3027].

[eatol]. See [atol].

[eaxl], st. f., shoulder: acc. sg. eaxle, [836], [973]; dat. sg. on eaxle, [817], [1548]; be eaxle, [1538]; on eaxle ides gnornode, the woman sobbed on the shoulder (of her son, who has fallen and is being burnt), [1118]; dat. pl. sät freán eaxlum neáh, sat near the shoulders of his lord (Beówulf lies lifeless upon the earth, and Wîglâf sits by his side, near his shoulder, so as to sprinkle the face of his dead lord), [2854]; he for eaxlum gestôd Deniga freán, he stood before the shoulders of the lord of the Danes (i.e. not directly before him, but somewhat to the side, as etiquette demanded), [358].

[eaxl-gestealla], w. m., he who has his position at the shoulder (sc. of his lord), trusty courtier, counsellor of a prince: nom. sg. [1327]; acc. pl. -gesteallan, [1715].