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midde-weard

  • adjective
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midde-weard, adj.
Mid-ward, middle of (the noun with which the word agrees)
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  • Middeweard hand

    vola vel tenar vel ir,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 43, 54.

  • Middewærd lencten vel foreweard lencten

    ver novum,

    • 53, 26.

  • Middeweard hit mæg bión þrítig míla brád oððe brádre

    Norway may be thirty miles or more across the middle,

    • Ors. 1, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 18, 31.

  • Andlangæs bróces middesweardes

    along the middle of the brook,

    • Cod. Dip. B. i. 295, 31.

  • On middeweardum (-an, MSS. R. L.) hyre ryne,

    • Lchdm. iii. 250, 26.

  • On middeweardre sǽ

    in medio mari,

    • Cant. Moys. 8.

  • Ymb ða eaxe middewearde hwearfaþ

    they revolve about the middle of the axis,

    • Bt. 39, 3
      • ;
    • Fox 214, 23.

  • Seó eá is irnende þurh middewearde Babylonia burg

    mediam Babylonian interfluentem,

    • Ors. 2, 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 74, 3: 1, 3
      • ;
    • Swt. 32, 6.
  • As a noun

    :-- On middeweardan innoþes mínes

    in medio ventris mei,

    • Ps. Lamb. 21, 15.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “midde-weard.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/22815.

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