Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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salo

Similar entry: salu

salt

Similar entry: sealt

salh

(n.)

a sallow

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a sallow

salm

Similar entry: sealm

-samne

(suffix)

Similar entry: æt-samne

sang

(n.)
Grammar
sang, song

a bed

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a bed Song ł bedd stratum, Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 15: Lk. Skt. Lind. 22, 12

sand

Grammar
sand, <b>; II.</b>
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sacu

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Add Swá micele hefigre sace geþanca flǽsclicra wé synd ofsette quanto graviore tumultu cogitationum carnalium premimur, Scint. 31, 18. Ne flít hé . . . ne sace ne ástyreð . . . þá beóð Godes bearn þá þe gesibsume beóð and sace ne ástyriað . . . Wé ne

sæc

(n.)
Grammar
sæc, sæcc; f.
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sǽt

(n.)
Grammar
sǽt, To judge by the former of the two passages given here the word in the latter of them should mean a place of concealment for the hunter where he lies in wait for the game which is driven towards him. Such driving of game is described by the hunter in Ælfric&#39;s Colloquy, Th. An. 21, 13-22, 18.
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Sǽte haldan would mean to keep the game from avoiding the ambush into which it was being driven. Cf. ge-sǽte

-sǽwe

(suffix)

Similar entry: ge-sǽwe

salh

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Add: salig

sand

Grammar
sand, sending.
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Add Hé cóm þurh Godes sande tó þǽre foresǽdan byrig, Hml. S. 24, 129: 35, 254. Add Þá bær man þám cyninge cynelice þénunga on ánum sylfrenan disce . . . þá sende se cyning þám þearfum þone sylfrenan disc mid sande mid ealle (cf. dapes sibimet adpositas

sáwel

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Add: a nominative sáwle occurs, Cri. 1327: Seel. 10: Ap. 62

-saca

(suffix)

Linked entry: and-saca

sǽr

Grammar
sǽr, ( = rǽr?),
  • Ps. Th. 7, 6
.

sæs

(n.)

a seat.

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a seat

saht

Similar entry: seht

sales

Similar entry: sæl

salf

Similar entry: sealf

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