sb. Obs. 1–3; also 3 od. [OE. ád cogn. w. O. and MHG. eit, Goth. *aids; Gr. αἶθος fire, burning heat. The mod. repr. would be ode.] A fire, a blazing pile, a funeral pyre.
a. 900. Leiden Gl., Sweet, O. E. T., 114, 95. Rogus: beel vel aad.
c. 1000. Poetry of Codex Vercellensis, 1898 (1846), II. 56. And on fyrbæðe suslum beþrungen siððan wunodest ade onæled.
c. 1220. Leg. Kath., 1364. Bed bringen o brune a fur amidde þe burh [v.r. an ad].
c. 1225. In Wright’s Vocab., 94/2. Rogus od.
