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sirwan, <b>. II.</b>
dele last passage, and add:
to devise a plan
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  • Serwi(ende)

    molientes (aliud argumenti genus)

    ,
      An. Ox. 2939.
to lie in wait for, to ambush
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  • Hér seó ungeþwǽrnes þá mægnu syrwde and gehæfte

    discordia virtutibus insidiatur et capitur, Prud. 78a. (1 a) with infin. (?) :-- Syrewiaþ moliuntur, i.cogitant (ingruere),

      An. Ox. 889.
  • Lí ccitan sirewede

    insimulare machinaretur, i. moliretur,

    2946.
  • Heó serewede moliretur (evertere), 3446. (3 b) add :-- Hé wæs mid hlóþum on hí hergende, and onbútan sierwende, Ors. 3, 7; S. 118, 19. (3 c) add :-- Þá Iúdéiscan þe syrwdon be Críste, Hml. S. 27, 177. (3 cα)

    to plot

    about a matter :-- Antigones and Perðica gebeótertan þæt hié woldon him betweónum gefeohtan, and longe ymb þæt siredon hwǽr hié hié gemétan wolden,
      Ors. 3, 11; S. 144, 35.
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v. á- (?), ymb-sirwan.
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