Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

hǽmed-þing

  • noun [ neuter ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
hǽmed-þing, es; n.
Carnal intercourse, venery, matrimony
Show examples
  • Sió lufu ðæs hǽmedþinges biþ for gecynde

    the desire of intercourse is from nature,

      Bt. 34, 11; Fox 152, 14 : Blickl. Homl. 59, 16.
  • Be hǽðenra manna hǽmedþincge

    de gentilium hominum matrimonio,

      L. Ecg. C; Th. ii. 128, 27.
  • Gif hí him betwynan hǽmedþing fremmen

    si inter se fornicationem commiserint,

      16; Th. ii. 144, 9.
  • Be hǽmedþingnm : eallum þyrrum líchomum hǽmedþing ne dugon

    of venery : venery does not do for all dry constitutions,

      L. M. 2, 27; Lchdm. ii. 222, 28 : 36; Lchdm. ii. 244, 4.
Full form

Word-wheel

  • hǽmed-þing, n.