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byrd-scype

  • noun [ masculine ]
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byrd-scype, es; m. [byrd, ge-byrd birth, scype state, condition]
Birth-ship, child-bearing; gestatio, partus
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  • Ic tó fela hæbbe ðæs byrdscypes bealwa onfongen

    I have received too many injuries from this childbearing,

      Exon. 10b; Th. 12, 7; Cri. 182.
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  • byrd-scype, n.