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scytel

Grammar
scytel, dung.

Similar entry: scitel

scytel

(n.)
Grammar
scytel, a dart. v. scutel:
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a bolt

scytel-finger

(n.)
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the arrow-finger, the forefinger Scytelfinger (scyte- ? v. scyte-finger) index, Wrt. Voc. i. 71, 31

Linked entries: scyte-finger finger

scyte

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Add: the distance to which a shot will go Oþ ꝥ hé wæs fullneáh in ánes flánes scyte út fram þám lande pene ad unius sagit tae cursum a terra, Gr. D. 114, 34. v. fǽr-, wáse-scyte

scytels

Similar entry: scyttels

scyttel

(n.)
Grammar
scyttel, scytel, es; m.
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A bar, bolt Ealle ða ísenan scyttelas helle loca wurdan tóbrocene, Blickl. Homl. 87, 5: 85, 7: Nicod. 27; Thw. 15, 24. Scyttelas vectes, Ps. Spl. 106, 16. Scetelas, Kent. Gl. 658

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scyte

(n.)
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scyte, es; m.
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shooting Hié fortendun ðæt swíðre breóst foran ðæt hit weaxan ne sceolde ðæt hié hæfden ðý strengran scyte ( ne sagittarum jactus inpedirentur ), Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 46, 13. Dryhten dǽleþ sumum wyrp oððe scyte, Exon.

Linked entry: wáse-scite

scyfel

(n.)
Grammar
scyfel, e: scyfele, an; f. [Shovel in shovel-hat ?]
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A covering for a woman's head; mafors (mafors operimentum capitis maxime feminarum, Ducange) Hacele capsula, cóp ependiten, scyfele mafors, nunne sanctimonialis, Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 67. Scyfla, scybla maforte (-ae ), Txts. 77, 1267: Wrt. Voc ii. 55, 38

scyttel

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Se scyttel (scyttels, v. l. ) ásceát of þǽre fetere, Hml. S. 21, 419. Hé þá cyrican beleác and mid scyttelum (scyttelsum, v. l.) besceát . . . wurdon þá scyttelas onweg áworpene ecclesiam clausit, seris munivit. . . abjectis seris, Gr. D. 234, 18-25.

scýte

Similar entry: scíte

scyndel

(n.)
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Tíwesdæges nama wæs of Martie, Iovis sunu ðæs scyndles (cf. (?) scyndan, ; scyndel one who causes swift movement, referring to the lightning(?). Or cf. (?) scendan, scendele; scyndel, scendel a shameful person (?)), Anglia viii. 321, 16

scyrte

(n.)
Grammar
scyrte, (-a; m. ?), an; f.
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A short garment, skirt, kirtle Scyrtan pretexta, tunecan togae, Germ. 393, 143

-scytte

(suffix)

Similar entry: riht-scytte

scyttels

(n.)
Grammar
scyttels, scytels, es; m.
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A bar, bolt Ða scytelses (scittelsas, MS. O.) tóburston, Homl. Skt. i. 3, 348. Openiaþ ðás gatu and ða fæstan scytelsas, Wulfst. 230, 31. Scytelsas seras, Ps. Spl. 147, 2. Scettelsas, Hymn. Surt. 122, 28. Scyttylsum vectibus, Germ. 399, 349

Linked entry: scytels

scypen

(n.)
Grammar
scypen, e; f.
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A shippen [in some northern dialects; also pronounced shup'm (Cumberland)], a cow-house, stall Scypen bovile, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 72. Scipen, 126, 59: bostar vel boviale, i. 58, 25. Scepen, steal, vel fald bovile, stabulum, 15, 23. Ða þing tó begánne

Linked entries: scepen scipen scoppa

scýtan

Similar entry: scítan

scytere

(n.)
Grammar
scytere, es; m.
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a shooter, an archer. v. scyteres (sciteres) clif, flóde, streám, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 330. [Icel. skytari a shooter.] one that moves swiftly (?) Ad rivulum qui scitere dicitur, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 102, 29. Cf. scytta

scytta

(n.)
Grammar
scytta, an; m. A shooter, an archer
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Sagittarius ðæt is scytta, Lchdm. iii. 246, 2. Strǽlbora and scytta arcister, Wrt. Voc. ii. 7, 32. Ðá gebende án scytta his bogan, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 219. On scyttan fæn, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 132, 22. On scyttan mere; ðæt on scyttan dúne, 381, 11. Wulfsiges

scytta

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On þám elpendum upon stódon gewǽpnode scyttan ( cum armatis jactatoribus), Nar. 4, 16. Add

scyttels

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Scettels pessulus, An. Ox. 46, 33. Hé ne mihte þá scyttelsas unscyttan, Hml. S. 31, 863. Add