† forclingv.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To shrink up, wither.
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a800 Corpus Gloss. 1744 Rigentia, forclingendu.
c1000 Veronica (Gr.-Wülk.) 163 Wæron sume on forclungenum treowe ahangene.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13851 Þatt herrte þatt wiþþ innenn uss. Iss hefiȝliȝ forrclungenn. Þurrh fakenn trowwþe towarrd godd.
c1305 Pilate 216 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 117 His lymes so forclonge to noȝte So hi dude alle tofore here deþ.
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 13 As a clot of clay þou were forclonge.
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