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bosom ; sinus, gremium.
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  • Hé bær on his bósme

    (sinu) Honorates scóh,

    • Gr. D. 17, 9
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  • Hí wurdon gegripene fram móderlicum breóstum, ac hí wurdon betǽhte engellicum bósmum.

    • Hml. Th. i. 84, 9.
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  • [Tó móder]licum bósme

    ad maternum (sanctae ecclesiae) gremium.

    • An. Ox. 4162
      • .
of things
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  • Seó sǽ wunað on ðǽre eorðan bósme,

    • Hex. 10, 31
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  • Tunnena bósmum

    cuparum gremiis,

    • An. Ox. 3513
      • .
womb; uter :
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  • Þý syxtan mónþe þæs þe Sct. Ióhannes on his módor bósm onfangen wæs . . . ꝥ cild his Hláford of his módor bósme on þǽre fæmnan bósm hálette

    • Bl. H. 165, 24-30

  • Se Hálga Gást wunode on þám æþelan innoþe and on þám betstan bósme,

    • 105, 15
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  • þǽre méder wæs on slǽpe ætýwed, þá heó myd þám bearne wæs, ꝥ hyre man stunge áne sýle on þone bósum

    Shrn. 149, 2.
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v. segl-bósm.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bósum.” 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/40754.

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