ge-swǽtan
To sweat
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To sweat Heó ná ne geswǽtte she did not sweat, Shrn. 150, 2
á-swǽtan
To break out into a sweat
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To break out into a sweat On ðǽm miclan wintreg cele þonne hé ymb þæt spræc ðonne áswǽtte he call, Shrn. 51, 34
ge-swæncan
To afflict ⬩ oppress ⬩ afflīgĕre ⬩ opprĭmĕre
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To afflict, oppress; afflīgĕre, opprĭmĕre Ða he gelomlíce geswæncte whom he repeatedly oppressed, Chr.1105; Erl. 240, 11
ge-swæccan
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to smell, v. swecc; Hý mid nosan ne magon náht geswæccan bútan unstences ormǽtnesse foetor ingenti complet putredine nares, Dóm. L. 206. Nosa hí habbað and ne gestincað (geswæccað, v. l. ), Ps. Cam. 113, 6. to taste, v. swecc; I lc geswæcce sapio, Ælfc
Linked entry: ge-sweccan
hád-swǽpa
pronuba
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pronuba, Ælfc. Gl. 93; Som. 75, 79; Wrt. Voc. 52, 29
ge-swǽpa
Sweepings; ⬩ peripsema ⬩ sordes
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Sweepings; peripsema, sordes, Cot. 149, 169
Linked entry: ge-swope
ge-swǽpa
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in Dict., and cf. ge-swope
hád-swǽpa
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For these two substitute: <b>hád-swǽpe, hád-swápe,</b> an; f. A woman who attended to the necessary arrangements for a wedding on the part of the bride, a bridesmaid Hádswǽpe (-a, MS. ; but cf. mínra for mínre, 20) pronuba; ipsa est et paranimpha