sám-cwic
Half-dead
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Half-dead Sum mǽden hé gehǽlde, ðæt ðe læg on legerbedde seóc, sámcucu geþúht, Homl. Th. ii. 510, 25. Hé sámcucu læg, Homl. Skt. i. 6, 164: L. Ælfc. C. 31; Th. ii. 354, 10. Hé (Anthony) bebeád ðæt hiene mon on ða ilcan byrgenne tó hiereswá sómcucre álegde
cwic-feoh
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Dele
cwic-lic
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Living, vital Cuiclic vitalis, Rtl. 94, 29
cwic-súslen
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Of hell, of Hades Gif ǽnig andgit sý on helle, lǽt þú þæt cwicsúslene hús, and gehír ðu ðínes fæder stæfne, Ap. Th. 26, 12
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cwic-treów
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Cwictreów cresis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 1: gnesis, 42, 17. Add
cwic-wille
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Living (of water) Wæter cwicwelle (lífwelle, L.) aquam vivam, Jn. R. 4, 10, 11
cwic-beám
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Cuicbeám cariscus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 102, 65. Cwicbeám, 129, 8. Quicbeám juniperum, 46, 19. Add
sám-cwic
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Hé Smaragdum forðférendne geseah, and Pafnuntium sámcwicne on eorðan licgan, Hml. S. 33, 302. Mid flánum ofscotene, mid wǽpnum ofsette, hí heora burh sámcuce (cf. healfcwice, Bl. H. 203, 19) gesóhton, Hml. Th. i. 506, 2. Add
cwic-hege
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a hedge composed of living plants Oð ðone cwichege, C.D. iii. 380, 12. [v. N.E.D. quick hedge: D.D. quick a young thorn for making hedges.]
healf-cwic
Half alive, half dead
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Half alive, half dead Halfcwic semivivus; half dead, Lk. Skt. Lind. 10, 30. Helfcuicne, Past. 17; Swt. 125, 8. Funde hiene ǽnne be wege licgan healfcucne invenit in itinere solum relictum et extrema vitæ efflantem, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 128, 14. Sume healfcwice
cwice
Quick-growing grass, couch-grass, quitch-grass ⬩ gramen
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Genym ðysse wyrte leáf, ðe man gramen, and óðrum naman cwice nemneþ take leaves of this herb, which is named gramen, and by another name quitch, Herb. 79 ; Lchdm. i. 182, 8: Lchdm. iii. 12, 28: 16, 8. Genim cwican take quitch, L.
cwicu
Alive, quick ⬩ vivus
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Hí cwico nǽron they were not alive, Exon. 24b; Th. 69, 36; Cri. 1131. Cwicu quick [living], pl. nom. n. Ps. Th. 108, 24. Cwicu quick [living], pl. acc. m. 87, 18.
cwyc
alive, quick
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alive, quick Cwyc alive, Ps. Th. 104, 8: Nicod. 26; Thw. 14, 28, 38
cwis
A saying, speaking ⬩ locutio
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A saying, speaking; locutio
cwuc
alive, quick
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alive, quick, Bt. 36, 6; Fox 182, 20
cwice
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Add: cwice, es; m. Quiquae, quicae, quice gramen, Txts. 66, 464. Cwice, Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 64. Quicae, cuique virecta, Txts. 106, 1088. Cwice gramis birecta, Wrt. Voc. i. 68, 75. Cwicas gramina, Hpt. Gl. 433, 30: frutecta, i. arbusta, An. Ox. 2, 28
cwis
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CWIÞ
The womb ⬩ matrix, uterus
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The womb ; matrix, uterus Beðe mid ðone cwiþ bathe the womb therewith, L. M. 3, 37; Lchdm. ii. 330, 2: 3. 38; Lchdm. ii. 330, 19. Cwiþ matrix, Ælfc. Gl. 76; Som. 71, 118. Wið ðæs cwiðan sáre for soreness of the womb, Herb. 165, 2; Lchdm. i. 294, 11
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