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be-sceran

  • verb [ strong ]
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be-sceran, bi-sceran, -sciran, -scyran; p. -scær, -scear, pl. -scǽron, -sceáron; pp. -scoren
To shear off, to shave, cut off; attondere, amputare, præcidere
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  • Hý eall heora heáfod besceáron

    they all shaved their heads,

      Ors. 4, 11; Bos. 96, 37; capitibus rasis, Ors. Hav. 4, 20; p. 270, 5.

  • Ðæt he to preóste bescoren beón mihte

    that he might be shorn as a priest,

      Bd. 4, 1; S. 564, 24.

  • Iulianus ðeáh to preóste bescoren wǽre

    though Julian had been shorn for a priest,

      Homl. Th. i. 448. 29.

  • Ic næs nǽfre ge-efsod ne nǽfre bescoren, and gif ic beó bescoren, ðonne beó is unmihtig óðrum mannum gelíc

    ferrum nunquam ascendit super caput meum, si rasum fuerit caput meum, recedet a me fortitudo mea et deficiam eroque sicut ceteri homines,

      Jud. 16, 17.

  • Man ne mót hine besciran

    a man must not shear him,

      Jud. 13, 5.

  • Gif he hine to preóste bescire [bescyre MSS. B. H.], mid xxx scillinga gebéte

    if he shave him like a priest, let him make amends with thirty shillings,

      L. Alf. pol. 35; Th. i. 84, 7, 9.

  • Biscær,

      Reim. 26.
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v. sceran.
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v.  be-sciran be-scyran bi-scær.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-sceran.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/3905.

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