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wriþa

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wriþa, an; m.
a band, collar
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  • Þeówan yfelwillendum wriþa and fótcopsas

    seruo maliuolo tortura et compedes,

      Scint. 190, 6.
  • Mid wriþan treówenum gewriþen grundweall getimbrunge ná byþ tóslopen

    loramento ligneo conligatum fundamentum aedificii non dissoluitur,

      200, 8.
  • Smeáþancollíce wriþan ł cnottan cræftelícum

    sertaque mystica,

      Germ. 389, 28.
  • Hí becnytton ánne wriþan eall onbútan his swuran.

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 608.
a ring
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  • Ic gesleá ǽnne wriðan on his nosu

    ponam circulum in naribus tuis

      (2 Kings 19, 28), Homl. Th. i. 568, 33.
  • Ic geseah in healle bring gyldenne (a cup) men sceáwian, . . . friþospéde bæd God gǽste sínum se ðe wende wriþan.

    • Exon. Th. 440, 19
    • ;
    • Rä. 60, 5.
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v. beáh-, heals- (where misprinted -wiþa) wriþa; wríþan.
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v.  wríþan.
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