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ge-cynd-lim

(n.)
Grammar
ge-cynd-lim, es; n.

A birth-limbwombvulva

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A birth-limb, womb; vulva Gecyndlim ontýnende vulvam aperiens, Lk. Bos. 2, 23: Hpt. Gl. 441

cyrc-þingere

(n.)
Grammar
cyrc-þingere, es; m.

A priest sacerdos

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A priest; sacerdos Sacerd vel cyrcþingere sacerdos, Ælfc. Gl. 68; Som. 70, 14; Wrt. Voc. 42, 23. cyric-þingere

Linked entry: cyric-þingere

Cyren-ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Cyren-ceaster, Cyrn-ceaster

Cirencester, Cicester, Gloucestershire

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Cirencester, Cicester, Gloucestershire Æt Cyrenceastre at Cirencester, Chr. 1020; Th. 286, 12, col. 2: Ors. 5, 12; Bos. 110, 22

cyrs-treów

(n.)
Grammar
cyrs-treów, es; n. A cherry-tree; cerăsus = κερασός, Ælfc. Gl. 46; Som. 64, 123; Wrt. Voc. 32, 57.

Similar entry: ciris-beám

fel-cyrf

(n.)
Grammar
fel-cyrf, e; f? [fel skin, cyrf a cutting off]

The foreskinpræpūtium

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The foreskin; præpūtium, Cot. 217

Linked entry: cyrf

feor-cýþ

(n.)
Grammar
feor-cýþ, -cýþþ, e; f.

A far countryremōta terra

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A far country; remōta terra Feorcýfle beóþ sélran gesóhte far countries are better [when] sought, Beo. Th. 3681, note; B. 1838

eald-cýþ

(n.)
Grammar
eald-cýþ, eald-cýððu, e; f.

The old countryprisca patria

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The old country; prisca patria Ðæt he his ealdcýððu sécan móte that he may seek its old country, Exon. 62a; Th. 228, 9; Ph. 435: 61a: Th. 222. 19; Ph. 351: 18b; Th. 46, 16; Cri. 738

mǽg-cynren

(n.)
Grammar
mǽg-cynren, es; n.

Racefamily

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Race, family Macynnere [= (?) mægcynrene] prosapia, Hpt. Gl. 437, 11

ge-cygd

(n.)

strifecontentiondebatejurgium

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strife, contention, debate; jurgium, Bd. 1, 14; S. 482, 26

cycen-þegnung

(n.)
Grammar
cycen-þegnung, e; f.
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Service in the kitchen Se ærcediácon and se práuost móton beón áspelode fram þǽre cycenþénunge, Nap. 15

cýþ-ness

(n.)
Grammar
cýþ-ness, Gr. D. 120, 7.

Similar entry: cwíþ-ness

cyper-sealf

(n.)
Grammar
cyper-sealf, e; f.
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Henna-ointment Cipersealf ciprum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 47

Linked entry: ciper-sealf

cyste-líce

(adv.)

Similar entry: cystig-líce

cyst-ness

(n.)
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munificence Cystnysse (cysti-, An. Ox. 1183) munificentiam, Hpt. Gl. 434, 50. (?)

hwíte-cylle

(n.)
Grammar
hwíte-cylle, some kind of bag or
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vessel Hwítecylle folle bubulum, i. vos piceum (cf. culleum, folle bubulum, Corpl. Gl. H. 39, 956: culleum uas pice oblitum, 926 : in culleum, in follem bobulinum, et aliter machina contenta et bitumine lita, 67, 224), Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 14

of-cyrf

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Se abbod brúce ísene ofkyrfes abba utalur ferro abscisionis, R. Ben. I. 60, 2. Seó ród is wíde tódǽled mid gelómlicum ofcyrfum tó lande gehwilcum, Hml. S. 27, 144. Add

wæl-cyrge

Grammar
wæl-cyrge, Take here (?) the forms given under wellyrge, where for 'sinus' l. (?) erinis ( = Ἐρινύς), and add
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Gydene, wælcyrie Ueneris, An. Ox. 4449

ǽ-cyrf

(n.)
Grammar
ǽ-cyrf, f. l. m.

mann-cyst

(n.)
Grammar
mann-cyst, e; f.
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Manly virtue Healdan wé þæt mid gódum dǽdum and mid æðelum mancystum, þæt wé beón gódum mannum gelíce in ðám mægenum þé wé dón magon, and in ðám dǽdum þe wé þurhteón magon, Verc. Först. 169. Cf. gum-cyst

Linked entry: cyst

wæl-cyrge

(n.)
Grammar
wæl-cyrge, -cyrige, -cyrie, an; f.

A chooser of the slain.

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A chooser of the slain. According to the mythology, as seen in its Northern form, the Val-kyrjur were the goddesses who chose the slain that were to be conducted by them to Odin's hall — Val-halla : 'Þær ríða jafnan at kjósa val.' Something of the old

Linked entries: -cyrge wæl-ceásiga