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  • Gehwǽde modicus, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 29, 9:

    exiguus

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 19.
applied to material objects.
of size
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  • Fram dúne gehwǽdre

    a monte modico

    ,
      Ps. L. 41, 7.

  • Bát gehwǽdne

    lembum exiguum

    ,
      Wülck. Gl. 254, 26.

  • Ðeós wyrt hafað gehwǽ;dne wyrttruman,

      Lch. i. 260, 5.

  • Þú gesáwe gehwǽde mot. . . and ne gesáwe bone mǽstan cyp,

      R. Ben. 12, 3.

  • Hæbben hý scapulare, þæt is gehwǽde cugelan and slýfleáse,

      89, 13.

  • Mid hangiendre hande dó hé swilce hé gehwǽde bellan cnyllan wille,

      Tech. ii. 118, 7.
  • Fulle of gehwǽdum leáfum and langum and scearpum and fǽttum. Lch. i. 258, 2.

  • Heó hafað blóstman and sǽd swýþe gehwǽde,

      250, 21.

  • Hafað seó lǽsse smæle leáf and gehwǽde, and seó óðer hafað máran leáf and fǽtte, 264, 18. (I a)

    little, young :-- Se Hǽlend him tó clypode sum gehwǽde cild (parvulum ),

      Hml. Th. i. 510, 25.
of quantity
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  • Áfédde seó wudewe þone wítegan mid dám lytlan melewe and þám gehwǽdan ele,

      Hml. 8. 18, 66.
applied to non-material things.
of time
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  • Ic eom gehwǽde tíd (

    modicum

    ) mid eów.
      Jn. 13, 33.
of sound
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  • Áweht tó his stefne þeáh þe heó gehwǽde (

    modica

    ) wǽre,
      Gr. D. 85, 9.
of quality, degree, significance, &c.
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  • Forhæfednys swá spærlic ł gehwǽde

    parsimonia tam frugalis

    .
      An. Ox. 3749.

  • Gehwǽdum

    mediocri (ingenio)

    4048.

  • For ǽnigum gehwǽdum (

    minima

    ) intinga geþreád,
      R. Ben. I. 116, 10: R. Ben. 131, 4.

  • Gehwǽde

    minusculum (opusculum),

      An. Ox. 5422.

  • Gedæf on gehwǽdum (printed -whǽdum)

    contentus modicis,

      Wülck. Gl. 257, 31.

  • Gehwǽdeste

    gracillima, i. humillima ł minima (fragilitas)

    ,
      An. Ox. 710.
the neuter used adverbially
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  • Gehwéde hneppast paululum dormitabis, Kent. Gl. 135 :

    modicum,

    946.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hwǽde.” 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/48427.

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