a. (sb.) Obs. Forms: 1 ʓeleof, 3 pl. yleoue, iloue. [OE. ʓeléof = MHG. geliep also as sb. pl.): see ʓe- Y- 1 b, 2 and léof LIEF.] Mutually loving or beloved; sb. pl. a pair of lovers.
a. 1000. Confess. Ecgberti, xxviii., in Thorpe, Laws (1840), II. 152. On þære fiftan cneorysse ʓeleofe men hiʓ moton ʓesamniʓan.
c. 1000. Ags. Gloss., in Haupt’s Zeitschr. (1853), IX. 461. Contubernali sodalitate,… mid ʓeleofre ferrædene.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 1047. Þar two yleoue [Cott. ilove] in one bedde Liggeþ iclupt & wel bihedde.
