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sceáwere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
sceáwere, es; m.
an observer, one who examines into a matter
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  • Wé willaþ ðæt se sceáwre wite mid fullum geráde, ðe ðis gewrit áspyraþ, Anglia viii. 331, l. Ðone dóm ðæs sceáweres

    spectatoris judicium,

      Past. 15, 3; Swt. 93, 6.
a spy
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  • Hé sende sceáwere (scéware, Lind.)

    misso speculatore,

      Mk. Skt. Rush. 6, 27.
  • Gé synd sceáweras

    exploratores estis,

      Gen. 42, 9, 14.
  • Leáse sceáweras,

      Beo. Th. 511; B. 253.
  • Moises sende twelf sceáweras,

      Num. 13, 4: Jos. 2, l.
a watch-tower (?)
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  • Sceáwere

    speculia

    (the word occurs in a list of military terms),
      Wrt. Voc. i. 36, 4.
a mirror
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  • Sceáwere

    speculea

    (in a list of words connected with dress.
      Cf. Alse hit bi þe wimman and bi sheawere . hie bihalt hire sheawere . and cumeð hire shadewe þaronne, O. E. Homl. ii. 29, 10.
  • Godes word is ase a uayr ssewere, ine huam me yziȝt alle þe lakkes of þe herte,

      Ayenb. 202, 21.
  • Sheweres

    glasses

    (A.
      V.), Wick. Isaiah 3, 23), 40, 54.
a buffoon, an actor (v. sceáwend-sprǽc)
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  • Sceáwera

    scurrarum,

    ii.
      90, 13.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. scouwari spectator, contemplator, scrutator.]
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v. be-, fore-, steór-sceáwere.
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