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hwít

  • noun [ neuter ]
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hwít, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§126; §243; §260; §298; §325; §426;
whiteness
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  • Hwít ásolað

    nitor squalescit

    ,
      Angl. i. 285, § 2 : ii. 374, 3.
something white, the white of an egg. Cf. hwít;
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  • Mid ǽges þý hwíte. Lch. ii. 82, 9.
  • Dó ǽges hwít tó,

      342, 18.
  • Nim ǽgra hwít, iii. 134, 10.
certain kinds of food, cheese, eggs, butter, fish, allowed at times when flesh was forbidden
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  • Fæste ǽlce dæge on his lengtene tó nónes and forgang hwít (

    abstine te ab albo

    ),
      Ll. Th. ii. 132, 5.
  • Fæst ǽlc dæge tó nónes and tó ánes métes búton sunnandæg, and forgá hwít,

      Wlfst. 289, 25.
  • Cf. Ðá ðé on þás hálgan tíde magon cýse and ǽgra and fisc forgán, swíþe heálic fæsten ꝥ bið,

      Ll. Th. ii. 438, II.
    Gif hit festendæg sié selle mon uuége cǽsa and fisces and butran and ægera ðæt mon begeotan mæge, C. D. i. 293, 10.
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v. searu-hwít.
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