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serc

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Grammar
serc, syrc, syric, es; m.: serce, syrce, an; f.
A shirt, shift, smock, tunic, sark (Scott.)
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  • Loða, serc

    colobium,

      Hpt. Gl. 493, 76.
  • Smoc

    vel

    syrc.
      Wrt. Voc. i. 25, 60.
  • Syric colobium vel

    interula,

      81, 69.
  • Syrc

    suppar, interula,

      59, 24.
  • Serc

    armilausia,

      284, 61: ii. 8, 16.
  • Serce,

      100, 77: 7, 4.
  • Swátfáh syrce,

      Beo. Th. 2226; B. 1111.
  • Ðæt hé hæbbe syric (

    tunicam

    ),
      R. Ben. 89, 10.
  • Genóh is munuce ðæt hé hæbbe twegen syricas (

    tunicas

    ), for ðære nihtware and for ðæs reáfes þweále,
      91, 3.
  • Syrcan, gúþgewǽdo

    shirts of mail

    ,
      Beo. Th. 458; B. 226: 673; B. 334.
Etymology
[Icel. serkr a shirt; hring-, járn-serkr a shirt of mail.]
Similar entries
v. beadu-, heoru-, here-, hilde-, leoþu-, líc-, under-serc (-serce).
Linked entries
v.  syrc.
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