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feþer

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Wright's OE grammar
§41; §80; §295; §302; §369;
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  • Feþere

    pluma,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 61
    • .
a feather
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  • Þæt gafol bið on deóra fellum and on fugela feðerum . . . Se byrdesta sceall gyldan . . . týn ambra feðra,

    • Ors. 1, 1
    • ;
    • S. 18, 16-21
    • .
a wing
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  • Fugla briddas, gif hié ǽr wilniað tó fleóganne ǽr hira feðra fulweaxene sint

    pulli avium, si ante perfectionem pennarum volare appetant,

    • Past. 383, 30
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  • Under feðrum (feþran, R.) sub alas, Mt. 23, 37:

    sub pinnis,

    • Lk. L. R. 13, 34
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  • Fugel hæfde micele feðra,

    • Shrn. 57, 3
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  • Feðra earnes

    pennas aquilae,

    • Mt. p. 9, 17.
a wing of an army (?):
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  • Here

    exercitus,

    getrimmed féða

    cuneus,

    féþe

    (printed fedes, but see Angl. viii. 450. Should feþre be read? or is féþe plural of féþu q. v.?)

    alae,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 32.
a pen, quill
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  • Fiþere tácen is þæt þú geþeóde þíne þrí fingras tósomne swilce þú feþere hæbe . . . and styre þíne fingras swilce þú wrítan wille,

    • Tech. ii. 128, 21
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  • Mín tunge ys gelícost þæs wríteres feþere þe hraðost wrít

    lingua mea calamus scribae velociter scribentis,

    • Ps. Th. 44, 2
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  • Swylce sum getýd wer sum metervers mid his feðere áwríte,

    • Angl. viii. 317, 23
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v. plúm-feþer.
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v.  fedes féþu.
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