leger

Meaning

1. the state or action of lying, lying down, or lying ill

   on ðam sixtan dæge his legeres

   on the sixth day of his illness

2. resting-place; couch, bed

   Frȳnd sind on eorþan, lēofe lifġende, leġer weardiað, þonne iċ on ūhtan āna gonge under āctrēo ġeond þās eorðsċrafu.

   Friends are in earth, dear living, who hold bed then I go alone on the dawn under the oak tree over this earthen-cave.

   10th century, The Wife's Lament:

3. deathbed, grave

   on gehalgodan legere licgan

   to be buried in a consecrated grave

Declension