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scimian

  • verb [ weak ]
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scimian, p. ode
To grow dark, (of the eyes) to be dazzled, bleared:?-Míne eágan scimiaþ lippio,
    Ælfc. Gr. 30, 5; Som. 34, 59.
Swá ðæt nán man ne mihte for ðam mycclum leóhte hire on beseón . . . and swá hí hí geornlícor sceáwodon, swá scimodon heora eágon swíðor, Homl. Skt. i. 7, 153. Beóþ his dagas démde gelíce swá ðú on scimiendre sceade lócige, Ps. Th. 143, 5.
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v. scima.
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