sceld
a fault
Entry preview:
a fault
scenn
A plate of metal on the handle of a sword
Entry preview:
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
screón
Entry preview:
To cry out, proclaim; dicare Forscráh abdicavit (in Lye)
Linked entries: for-scrífan for-scríhan
sceóta
Entry preview:
A kind of trout, a shoate, shot [' Carew makes a distinction between the trout and shot. "The latter," he says, " is in a manner peculiar to Devon and Cornwall. In shape and colour he resembleth the Trowts: howbeit in biggnesse commeth farre behind him
sceád
Entry preview:
Add:
sceap
Entry preview:
Add:
sceád
Shed ⬩ a division ⬩ distinction ⬩ reason ⬩ reckoning
Entry preview:
Shed (in water-shed), a division, distinction, reason, reckoning Ðú scealt gyldan scád wordum thou shalt give an account (of thine actions) in words, Dóm. L. 73. Haueð wit and schad bituhhe god and uuel, O. E. Homl. i. 255, 30. Snæd and skill, Orm. 5534
sceap
A private part
Entry preview:
A private part Hé getǽlde his fæder Noe, ðǽr hé on his sceape lócode, Anglia xi. 2, 53. Wið gicþan ðæra sceapa, Lchdm. i. 38, 15