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scirpan

  • verb [ weak ]
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scirpan, p. te.
to sharpen, whet
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  • Scyrpþ

    acuit,

      Engl. Stud. ix. 40.
  • Hí hwetton (scyrptun, MS. C. ) tungan heora

    acuerunt linguam suam.

      Ps. Spl. 139, 3.
  • Scerptun,

      Ps. Surt. 139, 4.
metaph.
to make active, arouse
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  • Symle hé sceal his hýrmen scyrpan mid manunge tó hláfordes neóde and him eác leánian be ðam ðe hý earnian, Anglia ix. 260, 23. v. a-, ge-scirpan.
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v.  scerpan scierpan scyrpan.
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