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wincel

(n.)
Grammar
wincel,

a corner

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Wincel-cumb, Homl. Skt. i. 21, 33: Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 354; and modern Aldwinkle (Northants)

wincel

Similar entry: wencel

wencel

(n.)
Grammar
wencel, wincel, es; n.

A child

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A child Gif his hláford him wíf sylle and hig suna hæbbon and dohtra, ðæt wíf and hire winclo (liberi) beóð ðæs hláfordes. Gif se wiel cwið: 'Mé ys mín hláford leóf and mín wíf and míne winclo,' Ex. 21, 4, 5. Se eorðlíca kempa bið ǽfre gearo, swá hwyder

Linked entry: wincel

wince

(n.)
Grammar
wince, an; f.

A winch

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A winch: Wince gigrillus (= girgillus; cf. girgillus a reel, Wülck. Gl. 586, 30), Wrt. Voc. 42, 29

windel

(n.)
Grammar
windel, es; m.

A basket

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A basket Windil cartellus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 102, 42. Windel, 13, 9 cartellus, fiscella, 128, 78: cistella vel cartellum, i. 24, 56: cartallum, 86, 4. Wylige oððe windel corbis, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 28; Zup. 55, 13. Ða hláfas on ðam windle (canistro), Ex. 29, 32

windel

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Windlas corbes, An. Ox. 2, 265. Add

winpel

Similar entry: wimpel

-wince

(suffix)

Similar entry: hleápe-wince

wine-wincla

(n.)
Grammar
wine-wincla, (-e; f.?), an; m. (?)

A periwinkle

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A periwinkle Sǽsnǽl vel winewinclan chelio, testudo, vel marina gagalia, Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 32. Winewinclan torniculi, 6, 21. (v. Lchdm. ii. 240, note 1, for these two passages.) Cwice winewinclan gebærnde tó ahsan, Lchdm. ii. 28, 25. Þicgen hié ostran

Linked entry: -wincla

-wincla

(suffix)

Similar entry: wine-wincla

winter

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Ðænne þæs ( Feb. 2) emn fíf niht ꝥ áfered byð winter of wícum, Men. 24. ¶ weak forms :-- Tó ðám middan wintran, Chr. 1006; P. 136, 24. Ǽr mydda-wintran, Lk. l, 26 rbc. Ær myddan wintran. Jn. l, 15 rbc. Add

winter

(n.)
Grammar
winter, es; m. (in pl. a neuter form wintru occurs, as well as masculine wintras, winter: the dat. sing. wintra is a trace of earlier u-stem declension).

a season of the yearwinterwintry weathercolda year

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a season of the year, winter Feówer tída syndon getealde on ánum geáre, ðæt synd uer, aestas, autumnus, hiems... Hiems is winter, Lchdm. iii. 250, 12. On ðone .vii. dæg ðæs mónðes (November) bið wintres fruma ; se einter hafaþ tú and hundnigontig daga

-winde

(suffix)
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Add: v. ber-, wiþo-winde

winde

(adj.)
Grammar
winde, (?); adj.

Curly

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Curly Winde loccas (windeloccas?) cincinni, Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 43: 14, 27: 104, 6

-winde

(adj.; suffix)
Grammar
-winde, adj.

Similar entry: ge-winde

-winde

(suffix)

hleápe-wince

(n.)
Grammar
hleápe-wince, an; f.

The lap-wing

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The lap-wing Hleápewince cucurata, Wrt. Voc. 62, 22: cucu, 280, 27

Linked entry: -wince

wine

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pay, stipend

wine

(n.)
Grammar
wine, es; m.

A friend.applied to an equalapplied to one who can help or protecta friendly lorda (powerful) friendused of a husband or loverapplied to an inferior or subordinate, one to whom favour or protection may be shewn

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A friend.. applied to an equal Wine mín, Húnferð, Beo. Th. 1065; B. 530. Hé ongan winas manian, frýnd and geféran, Byrht. Th. 138, 31 ; By. 228. applied to one who can help or protect, a friendly lord, a (powerful) friend Wine fród . . . Geared lǽfde

Linked entries: dæg-wine wine-leás

wín-cóle

(n.)
Grammar
wín-cóle, an; f,

A tub into which the juice pressed from the grapes runs

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A tub into which the juice pressed from the grapes runs Wínmere sive wíncóle lacus ubi frugum liquor decurrit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 13

Linked entries: -cóle wín-mere