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wiln

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wiln, e; f.
A maid-servant, a hand-maid
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  • Mín wyln (wiln, v. l.) mea ancilla, mínre wylne meae ancillae, míne wylne meam ancillam, mine wylna meae ancillae, minra wylna

    tnearum ancillarum

    ,
      Ælfc. Gr. 15 ; Zup. 100, 20-101, 7.
  • Wyln

    ancilla, serva, abra, dula

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 50, 14: 73, 2.
  • Þínen, wyln abra, i.

    ancilla

    ,
      17, 26.
  • Heó ýs ðín wyln (

    ancilla

    ) under ðí ðinre handa; þreá hig lóca hú ðúwylle.
      Gen. 16, 6.
  • Seó sáwl is ðæs flǽsces hlǽfdige, and hire gedafnaþ ðæt heó simle gewylde ða wylne, ðæt is ðæt flǽsc, tó hyre hǽsum. Þwyrlíce færð æt ðam húse ðǽr seó wyln bið ðære hlǽfdian wissigend, and seó hlæfdige bið ðære wylne underðeódd,

      Homl. Skt. i. 17, 8. 12.
  • Oft on ánre tíde. ácenð seó cwén and seó wyln . . . and ðære wylne sunu wunaþ eal his líf on ðeówte,

      Homl. Th. i. no, 27: Gen. 21, 13.
  • Ne wilna ðú ðínes néhstan wylne,

      Ex. 20, 17.
  • Gif wíffæst man hine forlícge be his ágenre wylne,

      L. C. S. 55; Th. i. 406, 14.
  • Ádó ðás wylne (

    ancillam

    ) heonon,
      Gen. 21, 10: Ex. 21, 20, 32.
  • Hé genam wealas and wylna (

    servos et ancillas

    ),
      Gen. 20, 14: Lev. 25, 44.
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v. wealh.
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  • wiln, n.