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scearu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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scearu, scyru, e; f.
a cutting, shaving
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  • Scaro

    tonsura,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 70, 18.
  • Gif preóst sceare misgýme beardes oððe feaxes,

      L. N. P. L. 34; Th. ii. 294, 27.
a shearing of sheep
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  • Férde Laban tó his sceápa sceare

    ad tondendas oves,

      Gen. 31, 19.
the ecclesiastical tonsure. v. L. Ecg. E. 152-154; Th. ii. 124, 9-24
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  • Tó sceares gefe

    ad tondendi gratiam

    (in 'oratio ad capilaturam'),
      Rtl. 97, 4: 95, 31.
  • Ðá wǽron scorene ealle munecas and sacerdas on ðone béh Sc̃ePetres sceare,

      Bd. 5, 21; S. 643, 29.
  • Tó reogollícum þeáwe rihtra Eástrena and scyre

    ad ritum Paschae ac tonsurae canonicum,

      5, 22; S. 643, 38.
  • Tó scare,

      5, 22; S. 643, 38, note. Hér Eádberht
  • Norþhymbra cining féng tó scære

      , Chr. 757; Erl. 53, 6.
  • Ðæt hié heóldon ða ciriclecan scare,

      716; Erl. 44, 19.
  • Hé sceare onféng,

      Bd. 3, 18; S. 546, 10: 5, 19; S. 636, 26.
  • Ða sceare onfón,

      5, 21; S. 643, 22.
  • Hé onféng preósthádes scare,

      Shrn. 50, 27.
  • Ða ðe beóþ gehádode fram Scyttiscum bisceopum oððe fram Bryttiscum, ða ðe sceare nabbaþ swá óðre cyriclíce preóstas,

      L. Ecg. P. Addít. 5; Th. ii. 232, 17.
  • Wé lǽraþ ðæt ǽnig gehádod man his sceare ne helige,

      L. Edg. C. 47; Th. ii. 254, 12.
a share, v. folc-, hearm-, land-, leód-, sceap-scearu.
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v.  scyru.
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