scrín
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a chest, coffer, casket, box in which precious things are kept: — Scrín arca vel scrinium, Wrt. Voc. i. 26, 49 : capsella, 33, 62: arca, 80, 79. Ðæt hálige scrín the ark of the covenant. Homl. Th. ii. 214, 35: Jos. 4, 7. Godes scrín, 7, 6: Num. 14, 10
scíre
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An enclosure, precinct Portic porticus, scíre peribolum, heall aula. Wrt. Voc. i. 58, 3
scíte
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A sheet, piece of linen cloth: — Scéte, loða sandalium, Wrt. Voc. ł. 119, 55. Scýte sindo, i. 25, 47: 81, 61: 284, 58. Wǽfelses l scýtan sindonis, Hpt. Gl. 494, 13. Mid scítan begird, Ap. Th. 12, 17. Heó hire feax gerǽdde and hí mid scýtan besweóp crines
scild
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a shield, a piece of defensive armour: — Scyld scutum vel clipeus vel parma, lytel scyld pelta . . . scyld clipeus, testudo, lytel scyld ancile, ða læssan scyldas peltae vel parmae, Wrt. Voc. i. 35, 27-28, 57-59. . Scyld cetra, ii. 20, 9: pelta, 68, 4
scenc
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Þæne nón ná fylige scenc quam nonam non sequitur potus, Angl. xiii. 399, 484. Cweðað gé ꝥ gé þus fela scencea (þus manige calicas fulle, v. l.) ne gedruncon? numquid tot calices non bibistis?, Gr. D. 127, 11. Se abbud scencende mid syndrigum scencum (
scill
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Add: <b>II a.</b> shell of a nut(?). v. hnut-scill(?)
scill
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Add: [v. N. E. D. shill]
scipe
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Add Hé nán þing him sylfum of his campdómes scipe on his seóde ne heóld, Hml. S. 31, 55. [v. N. E. D. shipe.] add:
Linked entry: beór-scipe
scíre
-scite
Similar entry: wáse-scite
scolu
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Add Hí singan on Grécisc agios . . . and eft scolu (schola) on Léden sanctus . . . seó sculu (scola ) andswaraþ on Léden, Angl. xiii. 418, 757-762
scoru
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a score v. scora ( quinquies uiginti ) scǽp, Nap, 56. [Icel. sker.]
scrind
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For scrinde perhaps scynde (v. scyndan) might be read. Cf. the intransitive use of the verb in reference to a ship Brimwudu scynde, Gú. 1305
scenc
A draught, cup
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A draught, cup Scenc ðú sylst ús potum dabis nobis, Ps. Spl. C. 79, 6. Cælc ł scenc wætres caldes calicem aquae frigidae, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 10, 42. Drince scenc fulne, Lchdm. ii. 116, 21. Genim ðysse ylcan wyrte seáw ánne scenc (scænc,MS. H.), i. 110,
scenn
A plate of metal on the handle of a sword
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A plate of metal on the handle of a sword (?) (Worsaae, Primeval Antiquities, pp. 29, 49, notes that the handles of some of the early swords were covered with plates of gold. v. hilt) Waes on ðǽmscennum scíran goldes þurh rúnstafas rihte gemearcod, hwam
scill
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Sumum ( serpents ) scinan ða scilla swylce hié wǽron gyldene. Nar. 13, 19. Ðonne hié ( the serpent ) mon slóg oððe sceát, ðonne glád hit on ðǽm scyllum, swelce hit wǽre sméðe ísen. Ors. 4, 6; Swt. 174, 8.
scier-
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Scild
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The name of the ancestor of the Danish kings. His story is given in the opening canto of Beowulf. According to the Ynglinga Saga, c. 5, one of Odin's sons is Skjöldr