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strícan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
strícan, p. strác, pl. stricon; pp. stricen.
Wright's OE grammar
§490;
to stroke, smooth, rub, wipe
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  • Ne delfe hý nán man mid ísene and mid wætere ne þweá, ac stríce hý mid cláðe clǽne,

      Lchdm. iii. 30, 24.
v. ymb-strícan.
to make a stroke, v. be-strícan; strica.
to go, move, run
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  • Búlon ðæm rodere ðe ðás rúman gesceaft ǽghwylce dæge útan ymbhwyrfeþ, stríceþ ymbútan,

      Met. 20, 140.
Etymology
[Baldulf lette striken to þan bare lichen his bærd and his chinne had his beard shaved of quite smoothly. Laym. 20303. To make murrour bryȝt. Stryke theron blak sope, Rel. Ant. i. 108, 23 (15th cent.). Streky or make pleyne complano, slreky or make playne by mesure hostio, streky, as menn do cattys palmito, Prompt. Parv. 479, col. 2. To stryke a buschelle hostiare, Cath; Ang. 369. This pecke to conteyne stryken with a strykell as mutche as cur standerd pecke holdeth upheaped, ib. note I. To stryke a bed=to make it smooth, is quoted by Halliwell, who gives strike as a Devonshire word for to rub gently. O. H. Ger. stríhhan linere, fovere. Cf. Icel. strjúka to stroke, rub, wipe: Dan. stryge.]
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v.  a-strícan strece.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “strícan.” 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/29176.

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