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a flood of water, downpour of rain
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  • Gyte

    inun-datio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 111, 63: 45, 63.

  • Swá mycel yðgiung and regnes gyte

    (inundatio)

    forþ cóm,
      Gr. D. 167, 25.
a shedding of tears
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  • Hwí ne feormast þú mid teára gyte torne synne?

    cur tua non purgas lacrymis peccata profusis f,

      Dóm. L. 79.

  • Bóte dón mid teára gytum and mid gebedum,

      Wlfst. 264, 13.
a flux of blood
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  • Blódes gytt

    sanguinis projiuvium,

      Mk. p. 3, 7.

  • Sum earm wíf wæs geswenct þurh blódes gyte,

      Hml. Th. ii. 514, 27.
effusion, shedding of blood, shed in blood-
shed
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  • Gyte blódes on sace ofermádigra

    effiisio sanguinis in rixa superborum,

      Scint. 83, 7.

  • Þæt hí heora handa fram ðám blódes gyte ne wiðbrúdon,

      Hml. Th. i. 88, 5 : Nap. 22, 25.

  • Hit getácnað gefeoht and gete

    (effusionem)

    blódes,
      Archiv, cxx. 50, 15.
Similar entries
v. blód-gyte, in-gyte, wæter-gyte.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gyte.” 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/51401.

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