a. Obs. [app. repr. or f. OE. aglǽca, aglǽcea, sb., cruel person, fierce warrior, f. aglác misery, sharp conflict; of uncertain origin.] ? Valiant.
a. 1250. Prov. Ælfred, in O. E. Misc., 102. Knyhtes egleche.
a. 1300. Magdalena, in Saints’ Lives (1887), 462. Sleiȝe men and egleche … Lustniez nouþe to mi speche.
c. 1300. in R. Glouc. (Rolls), Append. XX. 125. Þe lefdi [the empress Matilda] was egleche.
