[a]fät], st. n., vessel; vase, cup: acc. pl. fyrn-manna fatu, the (drinking-) vessels of men of old times, [2762].—Comp.: bân-, drync-, mâððum-, sinc-, wundor-fät.
[a]fät], st. n. (?), plate, sheet of metal, especially gold plate (Dietrich Hpt. Ztschr. XI. 420): dat. pl. gold sele ... fättum fâhne, shining with gold plates (the walls and the inner part of the roof were partly covered with gold), [717]; sceal se hearda helm hyrsted golde fätum befeallen (sc. wesan), the gold ornaments shall fall away from it, [2257].
[fäted, fätt], part., ornamented with gold beaten into plate-form: gen. sg. fättan goldes, [1094], [2247]; instr. sg. fättan golde, [2103]. Elsewhere, covered, ornamented with gold plate: nom. sg. sweord ... fäted, [2702]; acc. sg. fäted wæge, [2254], [2283]; acc. pl. fätte scyldas, [333]; fätte beágas, [1751]. [fæted, etc.]
[fäted-hleór], adj., phaleratus gena (Dietr.): acc. pl. eahta mearas fäted-hleóre (eight horses with bridles covered with plates of gold), [1037].
[fät-gold], st. n., gold in sheets or plates: acc. sg., [1922].
[fæge], adj.: 1) forfeited to death, allotted to death by fate: nom. sg. fæge, [1756], [2142], [2976]; fæge and ge-flýmed, [847]; fûs and fæge, [1242]; acc. sg. fægne flæsc-homan, [1569]; dat. sg. fægum, [2078]; gen. sg. fæges, [1528].—2) dead: dat. pl. ofer fægum (over the warriors fallen in the battle), [3026].—Comp.: deáð-, un-fæge.
[fæhð] (state of hostility, see [fâh]), st. f., hostile act, feud, battle: nom. sg. fæhð, [2404], [3062]; acc. sg. fæhðe, [153], [459], [470], [596], [1334], etc.; also of the unhappy bowshot of the Hrêðling, Hæðcyn, by which he killed his brother, [2466]; dat. sg. fore fæhðe and fyrene, [137]; nalas for fæhðe mearn (did not recoil from the combat), [1538]; gen. sg, ne gefeah he þære fæhðe, [109]; gen. pl. fæhða gemyndig, [2690].—Comp. wäl-fæhð.
[fæhðo], st. f., same as above: nom. sg. sió fæhðo, [3000]; acc. fæhðo, [2490].
[fælsian], w. v., to bring into a good condition, to cleanse: inf. þät ic môte ... Heorot fælsian (from the plague of Grendel), [432]; pret. Hrôðgâres ... sele fælsode, [2353].
ge-fælsian, w. v., same as above: pret. part. häfde gefælsod ... sele Hrôðgâres, [826]; Heorot is gefælsod, [1177]; wæron ýð-gebland eal gefælsod, [1621].