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BYDEN

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
BYDEN, bydenn, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§216; §369;
a bushel; modius
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  • Cwyst ðú cymþ ðæt leóhtfæt ðæt hit beó under bydene aset

    numqitid venit lucerna ut sub modio ponatur?

      Mk. Bos. 4, 21: Lk. Bos. ll, 33.
a barrel, tun, butt; dolium, cupa
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  • Hí mec baðedon in bydene

    they bathed me in a tub,

      Exon. 107b; Th. 409, 24; Rä. 28, 6.
  • Byden

    cupa,

      Ælfc. Gl. 49; Som. 65, 94; Wrt. Voc. 34, 24.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. butin cupa.]
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