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Wright's OE grammar
§132; §390;
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the skin of an animal, raw or
dressed
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  • Hiera sceldas wǽron betogen mid elpenda hýdum (

    scuta elephanti corio extenio habilia

    ). . . elpendes hýd wile drincan wǽtan gelíce and spynge déð,
      Ors. 5, 7 ; S. 230, 26.

  • Hýde

    bysse, i. corii,

      An. Ox. 3285: 3283: Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 14: ll, 75: 93, 13.

  • Mec (

    a book

    ) wráh hæleð hleóbordum, hýde (hýþe,
      MS.) beþenede (cf. the following citation), Rä. 27, 12.

  • Hýda tergora (De pugillaribus . . . Calceamenta mihi tradebant tergora dura, Ald. 263, 10). An. Ox. 26, 19. I a. the skin of a serpent, Ors. 4, 6 ; S. 174, 15 (in Dict.). I b.

    the shell of an oyster

    :-- Sǽ mec fédde . . . nú wile monna sum mín flǽsc etan . . . siððan hé mé of sídan seaxes orde hýd árýpeð,
      Rä. 76, 7.
the skin of a human being
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  • Útewardre hýde

    cute summa,

      An. Ox. 50, 23.

  • Bið se líchoma hreóf ðonne se bryne ðe on ðǽm innoðe bið út áslihð tó ðǽre hýde (

    ad cutem

    ),
      Past. 71, 6.

  • Sindon ðá loccas tó sparienne ðǽm sácerde ðæt hí ðá hýd behelien (

    ut cutem cooperiant

    ),
      141, 9. II a. in
    n], Wlfst. 172, 1 [and note], Gebéte hé þæt swá swá hit gelagod is, . . . þǽl mid his híde, þegn mid xxx scillingan, Wlfst. 181, 9.
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v. ǽl-hýd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hýd.” 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/53654.

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