scyte-finger
- noun [ masculine ]
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Scytefinger index vel
salutaris,
- Wrt. Voc. i. 44. 5.
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Bécnend, scytefinger
index,
ii.- 46, 35.
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Gif se scytefinger biþ ofáslegen, sió bót biþ .xv. sciłł., L. Alf. pol. 57; Th. i. 96, 1.
In Ethelbert's Laws the fine is only eight shillings,
- L. Eth. 54; Th. i. 16, 10.
- Scytefingres, Anglia viii. 326, 28.
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Euenmicel swá ðú mǽge mid ðínan scitefingre tó ðínum þuman befón,
- Lchdm. iii. 6, 21.
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Mid scetefingre ðú gebécnest
indice prodis,
- Hymn. Surt. 104, 5.
Bosworth, Joseph. “scyte-finger.” 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/27175.
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