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grin

  • noun [ feminineneuter ]
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Grammar
grin, gryn, e; f.: es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§391;
Substitute: grin, giren, geren, e; f.: grin, es; n. , and add:
a snare for taking game, &c. (lit. and metaph.)
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  • Hé cymð suá suá grin ofer ealle ðá ðe eardiað ofer eorðan,

      Past. 129, 22.

  • Úre sáwl is áhred of grine (girene,

      Ps. Srt. 123, 7)
    )

  • Cyme him giren ðá hié neoton

    veniat illis laqueus quem ignorant,

      Ps. Srt. 34, 8.

  • Fleógende fugel ... gesihð ðæt ǽs on eorðan, and ... forgiet ðæt grin ðæt hé mid áwierged wird. Swá bið ðǽm gítsere. Hé ... né geliéfð ðæs grines ðe hé mid gebrogden wyrð,

      Past. 331, 17-20.

  • Forwyrd girene heara

    interitum laquei sui,

      Ps. Srt. 34, 7.

  • Hé hit gewearp mid synne grine,

      Past. 309, 18.

  • Gefón myd heora grine, swá swá man deór oððe fugelas féht,

      Solil. H. 46, 11.

  • From girene ðá gesettun mé

    a laqueo quem statuerunt mihi,

      Ps. Srt. 140, 9: 24, 15: 90, 3.

  • Of gerene ðisse

    de laqueo isto,

      30, 5: 9, 31.

  • In grin ðissum gegripen

    in laqueo isto compraehensus,

      9, 16.

  • Án spearwa on gryn ne mæg befeallan,

      Chr. 1067; P. 201, 25.

  • In gerene

    in laqueum,

      Ps. Srt. 65, 11.

  • Gerene deáðes

    laquei mortis,

      17, 6.

  • Girenum laqueis (insidiator inimicus casualibus

    laqueis

    præparatis Germani pedem contrivit,
      Bd. 1, 19), Txts. 181, 69.

  • Sé befealt on ðæs costneres grinu,

      Hex. 52, 25.

  • Giren

    laqueos,

      Ps. Srt. 10, 7.

  • Girene,

      56, 7: 63, 6: 139, 6: 141, 4.

  • Gerene,

      118, 110.
fig.
a snare, means of enticing to wrong-doing
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  • Nis preóstes cwene ǽnig ðder þing bútan deófles grin,

      Ll. Th. ii. 336, 25.

  • Grin

    retiaculum (superbiae ),

      An. Ox. 961.
a noose
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  • Hé ácwealde hine sylfne on heálicum grine,

      Hml. S. 19, 212.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. grin, girn.]
Similar entries
v. lust-grin, syn-grin.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “grin.” 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/51223.

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