sweart
- adjective
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Sweart ater, teter; ceruleus, Wrt. Voc. i. 46, 32, 53 (in a list of colours): furvus, ii. 34, 39, 40: fuscus, 38, 27: luridus, 53, 15: pullus, 57, 10: niger. Ælfc. Gr. 8 ; Zup. 27, 9 :
caeruleus,
- Hpt. Gl. 516, 14.
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Wuduréc sweart,
- Beo. Th. 6281; B. 3145.
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Hræfn sweart and sealobrún,
- Fins. Th. 70; Fin. 35.
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On ðæm clife hangodan manige swearte sáula . . . and ðæt wæter wæs sweart under ðæm clife neoðan,
- Blickl. Homl. 209, 34-211, 1.
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Ðonne sweartan wolcnu (
nubes atrae
) him beforan gáþ,- Bt. 6; Fox 14, 22.
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Engla and deófla, hwítra and sweartra,
- Exon. Th. 56, 9 ; Cri. 898.
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Mænigeo sweartra gásta
spirituum deformium multitudo,
- Bd. 5, 12 ; S. 628, 4.
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On sweartum stafum and atollícum áwritene
tetricis descripta litteris,
- 5, 13; S. 633, 8.
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Sweartran
furviores,
- Wrt. Voc. ii. 37, 51.
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Hí ásettan ofer hyre ða sweartestan fyðra,
- L. E. I. prm.; Th. ii. 398, 27.
- Óðer (beám) wæs swá wynlíc, wlitig and scéne . . . wæs se óðer eallenga sweart, dim and þýstre. Cd. Th. 30, 35 ; Gen. 477.
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Eów is hám sceapen sweart sinnehte,
- Exon. Th. 142, 26; Gú. 650.
- Da þeóstre ðære sweartan nihte. Bt. 4; Fox 6, 34.
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Ðære sweartan helle grund. Cd. Th. 22,
- 24; Gen. 345.
- Se ðe on þýstre færeþ, on sweartre niht. Exon. Th. 54, 23 ; Cri. 873.
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Deorc gesweorc sinnihte sweart. Cd. Th. 7,
- 21; Gen. 109.
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Tó helle on ðone sweartan síð,
- 45, 27 ; Gen. 733.
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On díglum ł on sweartum dymnyssum
latibulis,
- Hpt. Gl. 480, 28.
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Landa sweartost hell. Cd. Th. 31,
- 19; Gen. 487.
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Gástas twegen, óðer biþ golde glædra, óðer biþ grundum sweartra,
- Salm. Kmbl. 976 ; Sal. 488.
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Sweartes hǽðendómes
tetrae gentilitatis,
- Hpt. Gl. 523, 41.
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Micel yfelnyss wæs on Iudéiscum mannum, ðá ðá hí syrwdon mid sweartum geþance (
with dark design
), hú hí Crist ácwealdon,- Homl. Skt. i. 11, 318.
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Swá lange swá hé hylt ðone sweartan níð on his heortan,
- Homl. Th. i. 54, 13.
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Mánfulra heáp sweartne
the devils,
- Salm. Kmbl. 299 ; Sal. 149.
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Ic fela gefremede sweartra synna,
- Exon. Th. 261, 10; Jul 313 : 270, 20 ; Jul. 468.
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Gé hellfirena sweartra geswícaþ,
- 366, 4 ; Reb. 7.
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In ða sweartestan and ða wyrrestan wítebrógan,
- Elen. Kmbl. 1859; El. 931.
Bosworth, Joseph. “sweart.” 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/29585.
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