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Hió dyde sciella tó bisene his heor neohtum and ðus cwæð: Ǽlces fisces sciell biþ tó oðerre geféged sub squamarum specie de ejus satellitibus perhibetur: Una uni conjungitur, Past. 47, 3; Swt. 361, 17.
scill
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Add: <b>II a.</b> shell of a nut(?). v. hnut-scill(?)
scill
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Add: [v. N. E. D. shill]
scill
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Sonorous, sounding:?-Scyl wæs hearpe, Exon. Th. 353, 44; Reim. 27
scitel
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dung (?) Nim heortes scytel and cnuca tó duste, Lchdm. i. 336, 18. Nim fearres scytel, cnuca and gníd swíðe smale, 368, 12
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scitol
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Purgative Mettas ðe late melten and swá ðeáh ne synd scitole, Lchdm. ii. 178, 1
scild
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a shield, a piece of defensive armour: — Scyld scutum vel clipeus vel parma, lytel scyld pelta . . . scyld clipeus, testudo, lytel scyld ancile, ða læssan scyldas peltae vel parmae, Wrt. Voc. i. 35, 27-28, 57-59. . Scyld cetra, ii. 20, 9: pelta, 68, 4
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Scild
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The name of the ancestor of the Danish kings. His story is given in the opening canto of Beowulf. According to the Ynglinga Saga, c. 5, one of Odin's sons is Skjöldr
scild
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Add Swilce án lytel pricu on brádan brede oþþe rondbeáh on scilde, Bt. 18, 1; F. 62, 5. Ic wille ðurhgán orsorh ðone here mid róde tácne gewǽpnod, ná mid reádum scylde oððe mid hefegum helme oþþe heardre byrnan, Hml. Th. ii. 502, 12: Hml. S. 31, 114.
ælf-sciéne
Take under ælf-scíne
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Take under ælf-scíne
ælf-sciéne
Beautiful, like an elf or nymph ⬩ of elfin beauty ⬩ formosus ut genius vel nympha
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Beautiful, like an elf or nymph, of elfin beauty; formosus ut genius vel nympha Mæg ælfsciéno = ides ælfsciéno O woman of elfin beauty! Cd. 86; Th. 109, 23; Gen. 1827: Cd. 130; Th. 165, 11; Gen. 2730
oster-scill
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An oyster-shell Mid ostorscyllum gecnucud and gemenged, Lchdm. i. 338, 16
oster-scill
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Gebærned osterscyl, gníd tó dúste, Lch. ii. 308, 25. Genim henne gelyndo and osterscylle, sete on gléda, wyrm hwón, 310, 3. Osterscella, 52, 25. Add
weoloc-scill
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Weolcscille conquilio, An. Ox. 26, 65. Add
weoloc-scill
A shell-fish ⬩ a whelk ⬩ cockle
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A shell-fish, a whelk, cockle Wilocscel (uuiluc-, uuyluc-) conquilium, Txts. 51, 499. Wiolucscel (but Ep. Erf. have ilugsegg) papilivus, 83, 1487. Hér beóþ oft numene missenlícra cynna weolcscylle and muscule exceptis variorum generibus conchyliorum,
hnut-scill
A nut-shell
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A nut-shell. Perhaps the word may be inferred from the form hnutscyllingas in hnutscyllinga mearc, C. D. iv. 105, 5
sǽ-scill
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a sea-shell Hé wæs nacod and on carcern onsænded, and þǽr wæs understregd mid sǽscellum and mid scearpum stánum (cf. mittitur in carcerem ubi . . . fragmenta testarum subter eum sternebantur, Bede's Life of Felix), Shrn. 51, 13