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þost

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
þost, es; m.
Dung, ordure; with this meaning thoste (according to a MS. glossary cited by Halliwell) is used in Gloucestershire
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  • Wyrc drenc of hwítes hundes þoste,

      Lchdm. i. 364, 5.
  • Bærn hundes ðost and gníd smale, 7.
  • Nim drígne hundes þost, 11: ii. 48, 8.
Etymology
[Þost. thoste stercus, Ps. 82, 11. An horse thoste, P. S. 237, 14. As a thost in the weie totreden, Wick. Ecclus. 9, 10. Ass uryne and swynes thost, Pall. 116, 348. Thoste or toord stercus, Prompt. Parv. 492. O. H. Ger. dost stercus, coenum.]
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  • þost, n.