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grin

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
grin, gryn, e; f: es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§391;
A snare, gin, noose; laqueus
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  • Swá swá grin he becymþ on ealle

    tanquam laqueus superveniet in omnes,

      Lk. Skt. 21, 35: Ps. Th. 123, 7.

  • Grines

    laquei,

      Ps. Lamb. 34, 7.

  • Of grames huntan grine

    de laqueo venantium,

      Ps. Th. 123, 6: 90, 3.

  • Geheald me wið ðare gryne

    custodi me a laqueo,

      140, 11.

  • On grine

    in laqueum,

      68, 23.

  • Gryne,

      65, 10.

  • Ic fó mid grine

    laqueo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 26; Som. 29, 17.

  • Iudas férde and mid gryne hyne sylfne ahéng

    Iudas wente awey and goyinge awey he hangide hym with a grane,

      Wyc;
    laqueo se suspendit, Mt. Bos. 27, 5: Homl. Th. ii. 30, 22.

  • Mid ðý ilcan grine

    in laqueo isto,

      Ps. Th. 9, 14.

  • He ríneþ ofer ða synfullan grinu

    pluet super peccatores laqueos,

      Ps. Lamb. 10, 7: Ps. Th. 17, 5: 34, 9.

  • Fótum heó mínum grine gearwodon

    laqueos paraverunt pedibus meis,

      56, 7: 141, 4.

  • Mid grinum

    laqueis,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 25, 13.
Etymology
[Ayenb. gryn snare.]
Linked entries
v.  ge-grin giren.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “grin.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/17521.

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