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slite

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
slite, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§386;
a slit, tear, rent in cloth, etc.
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  • Se slite byþ wyrsa

    pejor scissura fit,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 9, 16
    • :
    • Mk. Skt. 2, 21.
a rent, tear made by an animal , a bite.
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v. slítan
,
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  • Wið hundes slite

      Lchdm. i. 148, 7.
  • Ices slite oððe hundes

      ii. 86, 2.
  • Be hundes slite. Gif hund mon tóslíte oððe ábíte,

    • L. Alf. pol. 23
    • ;
    • Th. i. 78, 1.
  • Wið nædran slite

      Lchdm. ii. 10, 21.
  • Wyrma slite,

    • Exon. Th. 77, 4
    • ;
    • Cri. 1251
    • .
  • Slita

    morsuum.

      Germ. 392, 30.
a coil of a snake(?)
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  • Nædre sprotum slitas (?) lices clyniende

    vipera sarmentis laqueos corporis inplicans,

      Germ. 401 , 24.
a breach, infraction of a law.
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v. lah-slit
.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. sliz
;
Ger. schlisz
; m. : cf.
Icel. slit
; n.]
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v. folc-, lah-, wyrm-slite.
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v.  slítan.
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