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big-cwide

  • noun [ masculine ]
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big-cwide, bí-cwide, es; m. [be, big by; cwide a saying]
A by-saying, by-word, proverb, fable, tale; proverbium, fabula
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  • Ge forwurðaþ þurh bigspell and bigcwidas

    eris perditus in proverbium et fabulam,

      Deut. 28, 37.
  • Bícwide

    proverbium,

      Prov. 22.
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v.  bí-cwide.
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  • big-cwide, n.