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sceanca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sceanca, an ; m.
a shank, shin, the leg from the knee to the foot
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  • Sceanca

    crus

    ,
      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 33 ; Som. 12, 22: Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 21: i. 71, 56.
  • Scance(-a?) crus, sceanca[n]

    crura

    ,
      44, 68.
  • Gif se sconca biþ þyrel beneoðan cneówe,

      L. Alf. pol. 63; Th. i. 96, 16.
  • Gif monnes sconca biþ of áslagen wið ðæt cneóu, 72 ; Th. i. 98, 19.
  • Nim blæces hundes deádes ðone swýðran fótes sceancan (fótscancan,

      MS. B. ), Lchdm. i. 362, 27.
  • Sconcan

    crura

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 65, 41.
  • Scancan, ii. 17, 43.
  • Sceancan crura, scancan

    tibiae

    , i.
      283, 69-70.
  • Lǽcedómas wið scancena sáre, and gif scancan forade synd. Lchdm. ii. 6, 10.
  • Sindon ða scancan (of the Phenix) scyllum biweaxen

    crura tegunt squamae

    ,
      Exon. Th. 219, 20; Ph. 310.
  • Scancan

    tibias

    ,
      Hpt. Gl. 482, 64: Kent. Gl. 982.
  • Sconca[n?]

    suras

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 93, 5.
  • Ðæt man forbrǽce hyra sceancan (

    crura

    ).
      Jn. Skt. 19, 31, 32, 33.
  • Se sceocca gewráð his sceancan,

      Homl. Skt. i. 11, 223.
  • Sconcan,

      Salm. Kmbl. 203; Sal. 101.
the upper part of the leg (= þeóhsceanca)
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  • Ic wille ðæt gé fédaþ án earm Engliscmon . . . Ágyfe mon hine . . . án scone spices oððe án ram weorðe iiii. peningas,

      L. Ath. i. prm.; Th. i. 198, 7.
Etymology
[Dan. Swed. skank a shank: cf. Germ. schenkel.]
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v. earm-, fót-, hóh-, þeóh-sceanca.
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v.  sceonca.
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