scota
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One who shoots or hurls, a soldier Gescota commanipularius, Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 82 : 132, 49. [Icel. and-skoti an adversary.] Cf. scytta
scyfe
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of rapid motion caused by a push (metaph.), precipitation, v. scúfan Word scyfes verba praecipitationis, Ps. Lamb. 51, 6. Hié weorðaþ oft áscrencte on ðæm scyfe ðære styringe hira módes ðæt hí hira selfra ne ágon ðý máre geweald ðe óðerra monna motionis
Linked entries: scife niþer-scyfe scefe
scylf
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a peak, crag, tor (in local names) Ðonon ofer ealne ðone hǽþfeld tó Hnæfes scylfe, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 130, 37. Tó byrnan scylfe, 38, 36. Sticule scylpas scabri murices, Germ. 399, 446. Scylfa scopulorum, Hpt. Gl. 421, 43. a turret, tower, pinnacle
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]
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
scorf
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Swá mycel hreófle and sceorfe (scurf, scyrf, v. l. ), Bd. 5, 2; Sch. 557, 12. Add
scort
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Add Wæs þǽr án stów swýþe sceort ( locus brevissimus) in þæs muntes sídan, Gr. D. 49, 5. Add Hé wénde ꝥ swá scort (sceort, v. l. ) man (cf. lytelne, 10) ne mihte ná habban swá ormǽtne hlísan þurh hálinesse, Gr. D. 46, 18. 2 b. Add Ðá wolde se cniht
scoru
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a score v. scora ( quinquies uiginti ) scǽp, Nap, 56. [Icel. sker.]
scúfa
Similar entry: deáþ-scúfa
scylf
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Add Scilfas pinnas, Ps. Rdr. 103, 3
sceál
a shoal,troop, band
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a shoal,troop, band Ic be hondum mót hǽðenre (-ra?) sceálgrípan tó grunde, Godes andsacan, Cd. Th. 281, 8;Sat. 268 . Cf. Mid hishandscále, Beo. Th. 2638; B. 1317
scyfel
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A covering for a woman's head; mafors (mafors operimentum capitis maxime feminarum, Ducange) Hacele capsula, cóp ependiten, scyfele mafors, nunne sanctimonialis, Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 67. Scyfla, scybla maforte (-ae ), Txts. 77, 1267: Wrt. Voc ii. 55, 38
scill
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a shell, shell-fish:?-Musclan scil conca, Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 35. Scel. 105, 37. Scel echinus, i. piscis, cancer, 142, 24: 106, 75. Musclan ł scille de concha, Hpt. Gl. 417, 10. Scille vel sǽsnæglas conchae vel cochleae, Wrt. Voc. i. 56, 7. Scellum concis
scill
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Sonorous, sounding:?-Scyl wæs hearpe, Exon. Th. 353, 44; Reim. 27
scola
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a debtor Gescolan condebitores, Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 23