drof - Middle English Compendium

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Middle English Dictionary Entry

drọ̄f adj.

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Forms	drọ̄f adj. Also drove.
Etymology	OE

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

Note: Cp. droven, drovi.

1.

(a) Disturbed, sorrowful, troubled; (b) of water: agitated, turbid.

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a

c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1040 : Þæs tiðende him weren læðe; of deað he hefde care, drof he wes on mode.
c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6588 : Drof [Otho: sori] him wes on heorte.
a1400 NVPsalter (Hrl 1770)6.3 : And mi saule swiþe mikel droue [vr. droued] is.

b

a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13769 : Quen þis water all droue [vr. droued] war, Þe first seke man þat moght win In to þat wel..suld be heled fra þat tim.