sweart
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Wuduréc sweart, Beo. Th. 6281; B. 3145. Hræfn sweart and sealobrún, Fins. Th. 70; Fin. 35. On ðæm clife hangodan manige swearte sáula . . . and ðæt wæter wæs sweart under ðæm clife neoðan, Blickl. Homl. 209, 34-211, 1.
sweart
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Add Sweartes geallan melancolie, i. fellis, An. Ox. 2950. add: — Mid sweartum tetris, i. nigris (tenebris), An. Ox. 1736. add: — Sweartum ceco (ceco carpitur igne et clandestinis inflammatur stimulis, Ald. 66, 11), An. Ox. 4653
sweart-byrd
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A dismal, hapless birth, v. sweart; Þis mé tó bóte þǽre swǽran swærtbyrde, Lch. iii. 66, 22
col-sweart
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Coal-black Hwílum hé bið collsweart, Nap. 13
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fýr-sweart
Fire-swart ⬩ blackened with fire ⬩ igne obscūrātus
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Fire-swart, blackened with fire; igne obscūrātus Færeþ æfter foldan [se] fýrswearta lég the fire-swart flame shall pass along the earth, Exon. 22 a; Th. 61, 14; Cri. 984
sweart-hǽwen
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Dark purple, violet-coloured Ða sweart-hǽwenan cerula, Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 67
swefel-sweart
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Suefl-sweart sulforia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 61
sweart-lást
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Leaving a black track Fugles wyn ( a pen) stop eft on mec (a book ), síþade sweartlást, Exon. Th. 408, 12 ; Rä. 27, 11
sweard
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Swearð catrum, 13, 52
swearte
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Darkly, dismally, evilly Sió gítsung swearte swǽfeþ onlíce ðam munte ðe monna bearn Etne hátaþ, Met. 8, 47 (v. swǽfan). Satanus swearte geþohte (cf. Milton's 'dark designs,' and v. sweart, III), ðæt hé wolde on heofonum héhseld wyrcan. Cd.
swearm
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Add: — Swearm examen, i. multitudo apium, An. Ox. 3821: 132
swearm
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Swearrn, 32, 17: 144, 43 (examen has been omitted here by Wright, see Wülck. Gl. 230, 6) : Ælfc. Gr. 9, 12 ; Zup. 40, 14: examen, multitudo, Hpt. Gl. 457, 37 : 496, 14
swearc
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Weak, feeble, faint, v. next word, and swearcan
swearc
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swárc
sweora
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a neck Sweora collum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 51: cervix, 52. Foreweard sweora capitium, 45. Sweora vel swura collum, i. 43, 36. Swira collum, 283, 2: cervex, 3. Swyra collum, 64, 65: Soul Kmbl. 218; Seel. 111. Swiora smæl, Exon. Th. 486, 15; Rä. 72, 15. Ðá
sweord
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A sword Sweord framea, Wrt. Voc. ii. 36, 11. Sweorde mucrone, sweordum mucronibus, sweord macheram, 54, 33-36. Sweord gladius vel machera vel spata vel framea vel pugio, i. 35, 7. Litel sweord sica, 13. Hiltleás sweord ensis, 33. Swurdes ord mucro, 15
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sweora
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and add Ic wát cúðlíce þæt ic be gewyrhtum on mínum sweúran (sweóran, v.l. Cf. swúran, swíran, 18) byrne, Bd. 4, 19; Sch. 449, 22
sweord
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Míne witan habbað ætre[ht] Ecgferðe ealle his áre þurh ꝥ swyrd þe him on hype hangode ðá hé ádranc, Cht. Th. 208, 22. And þeáh hé geþeó ꝥ hé hæbbe helm and byrnan and golde fǽted sweord (ofergyldene sweord, 22), gif hé ꝥ land nafað, hé bið ceorl swáþeáh