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breóst, [The word occurs of all three genders, and can be used in the plural (dual) when a single person is referred to.]
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the front of the chest
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  • Mid gildenum girdle his breóst wæs befangen . . . hé silf wæs begird æt his hálgum breóste

    (praecinctus ad mamillas zona aurea, Rev. l, 13),

    • Ll. Th. ii. 370, 4-7
      • .

  • Oþ mannes breóst (cf. swyran, Shrn. 81, 13) heah,

    • Bl. H. 127, 6
      • .

  • Cumað deór . . . , and heora breósta beóð mid byrnum befangene

    (habebant loricas,

    • Rev. 9, 9),
    • Wlfst. 200, 12
      • .

  • Hé hlinode ofer ðæs Hǽlendes breóstum (onufa breóst

    supra pectus,

    • L. R.
      • ),
    • Jn. 13, 25
      • .

  • Þæs láreówes scóh hé ásette on ðá breóst

    (pectus)

    þæs deádan líchama. . .

    • Gr. D. 19, 12
      • .
the chest, thorax
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  • Breóst

    thorax,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 65, 6
      • ;
    • 283, 27
      • :

    pectus,

    • 28.

  • On iugoðe bið se líchama þeónde on strangum breóste,

    • Hml. Th. i. 614, 11
      • .
the stomach, womb
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  • Breóst

    crassum (ventrem, v. l.),

    • Lch. i. lxx, i.

  • Wiþ innoþes sáre and þǽra breósta (or under IV?),

    • Lch. i. 182, 21.

  • Þis ofet is swá swéte, blíð on breóstum

    (bonum ad vescendum),

    • Gen. 656.

  • On þám hálgan breóstum hé eardode nigon mónaþ,

    • Bl. H. 105, 16.
a breast; mamma, mamilla
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  • Hé hét hí gewríðan on ðám breóste, and hét siððan of áceorfan. Heó him cwæð tó: ' Ne sceamode þé tó ceorfanne ꝥ ꝥ ðú sylf suce, ac ic habbe míne breóst on mínre sáwle ansunde '. . . Heó beseah tó hyre breóste and wæs ꝥ corfene breóst geedstaðelod,

    • Hml. S. 8, 122, 146
      • .

  • Þurh þæt swíðre breóst,

    • Sal. K. 204, 25
      • .

  • Underneoðan oþer breóst

    sub mamma.

    • Ors. 3, 9
      • ;
    • S. 134, 23
      • .

  • Sceal mon þis wrítan and dón þás word on þá winstran breóst,

    • Lch. ii. 140, 27
      • .

  • Breóstum

    pipillis, papillis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 54
      • .

  • Brióst

    mamillas,

    • Lch. i. lxxii, 2
      • .
breast as seat of feeling, &c.
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  • Hú mycel se camp wæs in þæs mannes breóste . . . Seó árfæstnys oferswýðde þone strangan breóst, forðon nǽre se breóst oferfunden, gif hine seó árfæstnes ne oferswýðde,

    • Gr. D. 18, 2-22
      • .

  • Þurh þone hálegan breósð úres fæder,

    • 2, 19
      • .

  • His breósð sién simle onhielde for árfæstnesse tó forgiefnesse

    per pietatis viscera citius ad ignoscendum flectitur,

    • Past. 61, 12
      • .
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v. ang-breóst.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “breóst.” 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/40879.

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