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Wright's OE grammar
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Take here examples under drinc, and add:
drink, liquid taken as nourishment
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  • Be drinces gemete

    de mensura potus,

      R. Ben. 64, 9.

  • Wel áfédd mid ðǽm drynce (drence,

    v. l.) mislicra and manigfaldra gifa (potu multiplicati muneris ),

      Past. 380, 8.
a kind of drink, beverage
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  • Þǽm folce uncúðe wǽron wínes dryncas,

      Ors. 2, 4; S. 76, 12.
a
draught, cup
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  • Drync haustum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 110, 23: 42, 24 (cf. 78, 43 :-- Mortiferum poculi haustum, Ald. 25, 14). Ðætte hié ðone hálwendan drync ðæs æðelan wínes ne gehwyrfen him selfum tó áttre

    quia saluberrimum vini potum in veneni sibi poculum vertunt,

      Past. 365, 9.

  • Wyrc tó duste, dó hys dǽl on wínes drinc,

      Lch. i. 336, 16.

  • Drync

    poculum,

      Ps. Srt. 22, 5.

  • Hé sǽde þám bróðrum drincea (

    potionum

    ) getel (cf. þus fela scencea, 11),
      Gr. D. 127, 16.
  • v. blód-, spiw(e)-, wæter-drync.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “drync.” 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/43034.

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