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hand-wyrm

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hand-wyrm, es; m.
An insect supposed to produce disease in the hand
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  • Handwyrm surio vel briensis vel

    sirineus,

      Ælfc. Gl. 24; Som. 60, 25; Wrt. Voc. 24, 28.
  • Handwyrm

    ureius,

      Wrt. Voc. 288, 4.
  • Hondwyrm,

      Exon. 111 b; Th. 427, 24; Rä. 41, 96: 125 b; Th. 482, 15; Rä. 67, 2.
  • Við hondwyrmum,

      L. M. I, 50; Lchdm. ii. 122, 21.
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  • hand-wyrm, n.