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Anglo-Saxon

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scort

(adj.)
Grammar
scort, adj.
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On lxv and þreó hundræd scy[r]tran and lengran ða ǽdron beóþ tódǽlede, 146, 6. marking height, not tall Hé (Zacchaeus) wæs scort on wæstme. Homl.

Linked entries: scyrtra sceort

scúa

Similar entry: scúwa

scúr

(n.)
Grammar
scúr, sceór, scyur, es; m. : e; f. (?)
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a shower, storm of rain, snow, hail, etc. Scúr nimbus, Wrt. Voc. i. 52, 60 : 76, 42. Scyúr (scúr, Rush.), Lk. Skt. Lind. 12, 54. Ðes scúr hic imber, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 18; Zup. 43, 7. Swylce scúr ofer gærs quasi imber super herbam, Cant. M. ad fil. 2. Rénes

Linked entries: scýr-mǽlum sceór

scyll

Similar entry: scill

Scild

(n.)
Grammar
Scild, es; m.
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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

scill

(n.)
Grammar
scill, scell, scyll, e; f.
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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

(adj.)
Grammar
scill, adj.
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Sonorous, sounding:?-Scyl wæs hearpe, Exon. Th. 353, 44; Reim. 27

scín

(n.)
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brightness, shine. (?)

sció

Similar entry: sceón

scip

(n.)
Grammar
scip, es; m.
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A patch, clout Ne ásend nán man scyp (scep altered to scyp, MS. A.: ðæt ésceapa commisuram, Lind.) of níwum reáfe on eald reáf; elles ðæt níwe slít, and se níwa scyp (as before in MS. A. and Lind.) ne hylpþ ðam ealdan, Lk. Skt. 5, 36: Mt. Kmbl. 9, 16

Linked entries: scyp é-sceapa ǽ-sceap

scip

(n.)
Grammar
scip, es; n.
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A ship Scip navis vel faselus, scipu rates, sceort scip naviscella vel cimba, vel campolus vel musculus, litel scip scapha, Wrt. Voc. i. 47, 55-61. Scip ratis, horsa scip ypogavus, swift scip archiromacus, sceaþena scip paro, ánbýme scip trabaria, 56

scír

(adj.)
Grammar
scír, adj.
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Clear, bright Scír limpidus, Wrt. Voc. i. 46, 54. Sciir sublustris, Txts. 96, 941. I. of living creatures, bright, brilliant, splendid, resplendent: — Scír Metod (God) , Beo. Th. 1962 ; B. 979. Scír cyning (Christ), Exon. Th. 71, 9; Cri. 1153. Is seó

scyp

Similar entry: scip

scíd

(n.)
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a course (?) Scíd (ryne, MS. T. ) currus (cursus? ), Ps. Spl. C. 67, 18. (?)

scild

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Add Swilce án lytel pricu on brádan brede oþþe rondbeáh on scilde, Bt. 18, 1; F. 62, 5. Ic wille ðurhgán orsorh ðone here mid róde tácne gewǽpnod, ná mid reádum scylde oððe mid hefegum helme oþþe heardre byrnan, Hml. Th. ii. 502, 12: Hml. S. 31, 114.

scín

(n.)
Grammar
scín, an evil spirit.
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Hé yfelsacode þæs ælmihtigan Godes mægnþrym in wyrginge and in scinna cíginge, Gr. D. 289, 9. Add

scip

(n.)
Grammar
scip, a ship.
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Gyf Æðelrédes cynges friðman cume on iunfriðland, and se here þǽrtó cume, hæbbe frið his scip and ealle his ǽhta. Gif hé his scip uppe getogen hæbbe . . .ꝥ hé þǽr frið hæbbe, Ll. Th. i. 286, 8. Scip sceal genægled (cf. naca nægledbord, Rä. 59, 5), Gn.

scír

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Add Gebohtre scíre wítnung ambitus judicium, Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 12. Hé onféng þǽre heordelican scíre gýmnysse pastoralem suscepit curam, Gr. D. 191, 26. Héde sé ðe scíre (cf. scír-mann; ) healde, Angl. ix. 259, 13. dele last passage, and add Férde se

scýn

Similar entry: scín

scǽ-

(prefix)

Similar entry: scæ-