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hiw

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
hiw, heow, hiow, heó, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§90; §265; §357;
Shape, make, form, fashion, species, kind, appearance, symbol, hue, colour, beauty
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  • Hiw

    species,

      Ælfc. Gl. 70; Som. 70, 45; Wrt. Voc. 42, 53.
  • Hiw

    figura, scema, specimen, forma, species,

      Ælfc. Gr. 2: 9: 14; Som. 2, 45, 46: 8, 22: 9, 31: 17, 19, 20.
  • Hiw figmentum, Blickl. Gl. Ðeós gerýnu is wedd and hiw

    this mystery is a pledge and a symbol,

      Homl. Th. ii. 272, 60.
  • Sǽde hwylc ðæs biscopes hiw wǽre

    effigiem ejusdem Paulini referre esset solitus,

      Bd. 2, 16; S. 519, 32: Andr. Kmbl. 7449; An. 725.
  • Heó is on onsýne útan yfeles heowes

    outside it is in appearance of a very poor kind,

      Blickl. Homl. 197, 11.
  • Seó is brúnes heowes

    it is of a brown colour,

      73, 22.
  • Ánes hiwes

    uniformis,

      Ælfc. Gr. 49; Som. 50, 42.
  • Hwælan hiwes

    of a whale's shape,

      Salm. Kmbl. 527; Sal. 263.
  • Æt ánes heowes cý

    from a cow all of one colour,

      Lchdm. iii. 24, 13.
  • Hiwes binotene

    bereft of their [angelic] form,

      Exon. 45 b; Th. 156, 10; Gú. 872.
  • On óðfum hiwe

    in alia effigie,

      Mk. Skt. 16, 12.
  • Hí ealle wurdon áwende of ðam fægeran hiwe ðe hí on gesceapene wǽron tó láðlícum deóflum

    they were all changed from the fair form in which they were created to loathly devils,

      Homl. Th. i. 10, 30.
  • On næddran hiwe

    in the form of a serpent,

      16, 32: 104, 23.
  • On fýres hiwe

    like as of fire,

      232, 15.
  • On cuman hiwe

    as a guest,

    ii.
      96, 35.
  • Heowe,

      Blickl. Homl. 235, 29.
  • Æfter his hiwe

    secundum speciem suam,

      Gen. 1, 12.
  • Ðú eart wlitig on hiwe

    pulchra sis mulier

    ,
      12, 11.
  • Siððan heó wunode mid fǽmnum on hira hiwe

    afterwards she lived with women as a woman,

      Shrn. 31, 16: 52, 24.
  • Se sunn onféng mennisc hiw

    the son took the form of a man,

      Nar. 39, 23: Exon. 18 b; Th. 45, 19; Cri. 721: 46 a; Th. 156, 28; Gú. 881.
  • Heó,

      Elen. Kmbl. 12; El. 6.
  • Tócnáwan heofones hiw

    faciem cæli dijudicare,

      Mt. Kmbl 16, 3.
  • Scínende hiow and gewǽdu

    shining face and garments,

      Homl. Th. ii. 350, 18.
  • Nú berþ Petrus ðæt hiw oððe getácnunge ðære hálgan gelaþunge

    Peter is now the figure or symbol of the holy church,

      390, 14: 406, 11.
  • Weorþeþ sunne on blódes hiw

    the sun shall become the colour of blood,

      Exon. 21 b; Th. 58, 15; Cri. 936.
  • Hiw

    decorem,

      Ps. Spl. C. 44, 13.
  • Gimmas hwíte and reáde and hiwa gehwæs

    gems, white and red and of every hue,

      Bt. Met. Fox 19, 46; Met. 19, 23: Exon. 95 b; Th. 356, 31; Pa. 20.
  • Behealdaþ eów wið leásum wítegum ðe tó eów cumaþ on sceápa hiwum

    take heed of false prophets that come to you as sheep,

      Homl. Th. ii. 404, 4.
  • On mistlícum and mænigfealdum hiwum

    of divers and manifold forms,

      Lchdm. iii. 234, 13.
Etymology
[Goth. hiwi form.]
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v. feala-, scín-hiw.
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