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hǽwen

  • adjective
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hǽwen, adj.
Blue, azure, purple, discoloured
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  • Hǽwen glaucus, Cot. 96 : jacinthina, 185 : fulvus, Lye. Ádó in ǽren fæt lǽt ðǽr in óð ðæt hit hǽwen sý

    put into a brazen vessel, leave it therein until it be turned colour,

      Lchdm. iii. 20, 18.

  • Gyf dæt húsl byþ fynig oððe hǽwen

    if the housel be mouldy or discoloured,

      L. Ælf. C. 36; Th. ii. 360, 9.

  • Seó hǽwene lyft

    the azure air,

      Cd. 166; Th. 207, 33; Exod, 476.

  • Genim ðás wyrte ðe grécas brittanice and engle hǽwen hydele,

      Herb. 30; Lchdm. i. 126, 6.
  • Hǽwene hnydele, iii. 24, 8.

  • Ðeós wyrt hafaþ lange leáf and hǽwene

    this plant hath long leaves and purple,

      Herb. 133, 1; Lchdm. i. 248, 18 : 150, 1; Lchdm. i. 274, 16.

  • Seó heall wæs getymbred ynnan and útan myd grénum and myd hǽwenum and myd hwýtum

    the hall was built within and without with green and with purple and with white,

      Shrn. 156, 6.

  • Hǽwen-grén

    cæruleus,

      Cot. 53, Lye. Hǽwendeáge hyacinthinus, Lye.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hǽwen.” 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/17996.

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