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brim-ceald

  • adjective
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Grammar
brim-ceald, -cald; adj. [brim, ceald cold]
Wright's OE grammar
§640;
Cold as the water of the sea, ice-cold; frigidus ut aqua maris, frigidissimus, gelidus
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  • Fénix brimcald beorgeþ

    the Phœnix tastes the ocean-cold [water ],

      Exon. 57 b; Th. 205, 9; Ph. 110.
  • Wæter wynsumu of ðære moldan tyrf brimcald brecaþ

    pleasant waters, sea-cold, break forth from the turf of the earth,

    56 b;
      Th. 202, 9; Ph. 67.
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v.  brym-ceald.
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  • brim-ceald, adj.