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weard

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
weard, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§376; §637;
ward, guard, watch
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  • Gefangen on hergiunge oþþe æt wearde

    utrum explorantem an in praelio raptus,

      Ors. 4, 11; Swt. 206, 5.
  • Healdaþ wearde dæges and nihtes

    die ac nocte manebitis observantes custodias,

      Lev. 8, 35.
  • Weras wæccende wearde heóldon,

      Judth. Thw. 23, 26; Jud. 142: Beo. Th. 616; B. 305.
  • Wið wráð seros wearde healdan,

      644; B. 319: Exon. Th. 48, 6; Cri. 767: 282, 16; Jul. 664.
  • Weardum

    excubiis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 12.
  • Lux et tenebre ðe ðás werþeóda weardum healdaþ,

      Exon. Th. 192, 5; Az. 101.
  • Wærda excubias, Hpt. Gl. 476, 29. I a.

    a watch, a body of men keeping watch

    :-- Hí besetton his birgene mid wearde,
      Jud. Thw. p. 161, 12.
guardianship, protection, keeping
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  • Heora feorh generede mihtig Metodes weard,

      Cd. Th. 230, 18; Dan. 235.
  • Cristenum cyuinge gebyraþ ðæt hé sý on fæder stæle cristenre þeóde, and on ware and on wearde Cristes gespeliga,

      L. I. P. 2; Th. ii. 304, 23.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. warta speculatio, cura, custodia, excubiae: Icel. vörðr; m. ward, watch, protection.]
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v. ǽg-, fird-, flód-, fore-, heáfod-, hors-, leód-, sǽ-weard; or-wearde.
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  • weard, n.