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scill

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
scill, scell, scyll, e; f.
a shell, shell-fish:?-Musclan scil conca,
    Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 35. Scel. 105, 37.
Scel echinus, i. piscis, cancer, 142, 24: 106, 75. Musclan ł scille de concha, Hpt. Gl. 417, 10. Scille vel sǽsnæglas conchae vel cochleae, Wrt. Voc. i. 56, 7. Scellum
concis, ii. 15, 18.
the shell of an egg
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  • Se rodor ymbféhþ útan eall þás niðerlícan gescæfte, swá seó scell ymbféhþ ðæt ǽg,

      Shrn. 63, 10: Met. 20, 174.

  • Fæger swylce hé of ǽgerum út álǽde, scír of scylle,

      Exon. Th. 214, 4; Ph. 234.
a scale of a fish, serpent, etc.
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  • Hió dyde sciella tó bisene his heor neohtum and ðus cwæð: Ǽlces fisces sciell biþ tó oðerre geféged

    sub squamarum specie de ejus satellitibus perhibetur: Una uni conjungitur,

      Past. 47, 3; Swt. 361, 17.

  • Sumum (

    serpents

    ) scinan ða scilla swylce hié wǽron gyldene.
      Nar. 13, 19.

  • Ðonne hié (

    the serpent

    ) mon slóg oððe sceát, ðonne glád hit on ðǽm scyllum, swelce hit wǽre sméðe ísen.
      Ors. 4, 6; Swt. 174, 8.

  • Sindon ða scancan scyllum biweaxen

    crura tegunt squamae,

      Exon. Th. 219, 21; Ph. 310.

  • Ne ete gé nánne fisc búton ða ðe habbaþ finnas and scilla,

      Lev. 11, 9.
a shell-shaped dish (?) or simply a shell:?-Nim león gelynde, mylt on scylle (a dish or
a shell?),
    Lchdm. i. 364, 24.
Wyrme on scille, ii. 42, 16: 310, 6.
Etymology
[Goth. skalja a tile: Icel. skel a shell.]
Similar entries
v. ǽg-, oster-, sǽ-, weolc-scill.
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v.  scel scell sciell scyl scyll.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “scill.” 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/26799.

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