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hwínan; p. hwán; pl. hwinon To make a whistling, whizzing sound [as an arrow, etc. in its flight] :-- Ful oft of ðam heápe hwínende fleág, giellende gár full oft from that band flew whistling the shrieking javelin, Exon. 86 b; Th. 326, 12; Víd. 127. [Prompt. Parv. whynyñ, as howndys or oþer beestys ululo, gannio: Chauc. for as an hors I coude bite and whine: Icel. hvina; p. hvein to give a whizzing sound [as an arrow], e.g. örvarnar flugu hvínandi yfir höfuð þeim: Dan. hvine to whistle (of the wind); hvin a piercing shriek.]
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mæstan; p. mæste; pp. mæsted, mæst To fatten :-- Maestun saginabant. Wrt. Voc. ii. 119, 61: Ep. Gl. 24b, 27. Ic wylle ðæt man mæste mínum wífe twá hund swína, Chart. Th. 596, 21. Is mæst saginatur, nutritur, Hpt. Gl. 489, 43. Weorþaþ mæsted pinguescent, Ps. Th. 64, 13. [Prompt. Parv. Masty&n-long; beestys sagino, impinguo; mast-hog, mastid swyne maialis: O. H. Ger. mastian to feed; ge-mestet. ge-mast fattened, v. Grff. ii. 882 : Ger. müsten.] v. á-, ge-mæstan.
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sál,
es;
m.
:
e;
f.
(?)
I.
a
rope,
cord,
line,
bond
:--
Licgaþ
mé
ymbe
írenbendas,
rídeþ
racentan
sál,
Cd.
Th.
24,
3;
Gen.
378.
Ðá
wæs
be
mæste
segl
sále
(cf.
O.
H.
Ger.
segil-seil
rudens)
fæst,
Beo.
Th.
3816;
B.
1906.
Sálum
nexibus,
Wrt.
Voc.
ii.
60,
74.
II.
a
rein
:--
Sálas
[h]
abenas,
4,
58
:
6,
22.
Sálum
gewealdleþerum
habenis,
42,
60.
III.
the
loop
which
forms
the
handle
of
a
vessel
(?)
:--
Sál
ansa
(cf.
hringe
ansa,
284,
7,
and
see
nostle.
The
word
occurs
under
the
heading
nomina
vasorum),
Wrt.
Voc.
i.
25,
11.
IV.
the
fastening
of
a
door
:--
Repagulum
sál[-panra?],
Wrt.
Voc.
i.
16,
3.
Sále
repagula,
ii.
119,
4.
V.
a
necklace,
collar
:--
Sweorcláþ
vel
[sweor]tég
vel
[sweor?]sál
collarium,
134,
49.
Sále
collario,
18,
17.
Saule
callario
(saale
collario),
78,
71.
[Soole,
beestys
teyynge
ligaculum;
restis
a
sole
to
tie
beasts,
Prompt.
Parv.
463.
Hi
drayeþ
myd
such
sol,
Misc.
51,
162.
O.
H.
Ger.
seil;
n.
funis,
rudens,
lorum,
habena,
restis:
Icel.
seil;
f.
a
line.]
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treppe, træppe (v. (?) colte-træppe ( = colt-trap ?) ramnus, Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 47), an; f. A trap :-- Ic beswíce fugelas mid treppan decipio aves decipula, Coll. Monast. Th. 25, 15. [O. H. Ger. trapo tenda. From this Low Latin trappa, hence French trappe, which perhaps helps to determine the form of the later English word :-- To lacchenn þe þutrh trapp, Orm. 12301. A mons caught in a trappe, Chauc. Prol. 145. A trappe brida, Wrt. Voc. i. 264, 8. Trappe for myce muscipula, decipula, trappe to take wythe beestys tenabulum, trappyd or betrappyd decipulatus, illaqueatus, Prompt. Parv. 499.]
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