[hreóða], w. m., cover, in the compound bord-hreóða.
[hreóðan], ge-hreóðan, st. v., to cover, to clothe; only in the pret. part. hroden, gehroden, dressed, adorned: hroden, [495], [1023]; þâ wäs heal hroden feónda feorum, then was the hall covered with the corpses of the enemy, [1152]; ge-hroden golde, adorned with gold, [304].—Comp.: beág-, gold-hroden.
[hreóh, hreów, hreó], adj., excited, stormy, wild, angry, raging; sad, troubled: nom. sg. (Beówulf) hreóh and heoro-grim, [1565]; þät þam gôdan wäs hreów on hreðre, (that came with violence upon him, pained his heart), [2329]; hreó wæron ýða, the waves were angry, the sea stormy, [548]; näs him hreóh sefa, his mind was not cruel, [2181]; dat. sg. on hreón môde, of sad heart, [1308]; on hreóum môde, angry at heart, [2582].
[hreóh-môd], adj., of sad heart, [2133]; angry at heart, [2297].
[hreósan], st. v., to fall, to sink, to rush: pret. hreás, [2489], [2832]; pret. pl. hruron, [1075]; hie on weg hruron, they rushed away, [1431]; hruron him teáras, tears burst from him, [1873].
be-hreósan, to fall from, to be divested of: pret. part. acc. pl. fyrn-manna fatu ... hyrstum behrorene, divested of ornaments (from which the ornaments had fallen away), [2760].
[hreów], st. f., distress, sorrow: gen. pl. þät wäs Hrôðgâre hreówa tornost, that was to Hrôðgâr the bitterest of his sorrows, [2130].
[hring], st. m.: 1) ring: acc. sg. þone hring, [1203]; hring gyldenne, [2810]; acc. pl. hringas, [1196], [1971], [3035]; gen. pl. hringa, [1508], [2246].—2) shirt of mail (of interlaced rings): nom. sg. hring, [1504]; byrnan hring, [2261].—Comp. bân-hring.
[hringan], w. v., to give forth a sound, to ring, to rattle: pret. pl. byrnan hringdon, [327].
[hring-boga], w. m., one who bends himself into a ring: gen. sg. hring-bogan (of the drake, bending himself into a circle), [2562].