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wyrm-sele

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wyrm-sele, es; m.
A serpent-hall [cf. the hall, thick swarming now, With ... scorpion, and asp ... Cerastes horned, hydrus, and elops drear, And dipsas,
    Par. Lost 10, 522 sqq.
], a place where there are serpents (hell)
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  • Ne þearf hé hopian ðæt hé þonan móte, of ðam wyrmsele,

      Judth. Thw. 23, 13; Jud. 119.
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v. wyrm-geard.
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v.  wyrm-geard.
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Word-wheel

  • wyrm-sele, n.