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þweores

  • preposition
  • adverb
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Grammar
þweores, þwires, þwyres.
Wright's OE grammar
§557;
across as opposed to along, athwart, transversely, crosswise as opposed to lengthways
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  • Lege bred þweores ofer ða fét

    lay a board across over the feet,

    • Lchdm. ii. 342, 6.

  • Ðonon þweores ofér ðone beorh,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 353, 16.

  • Adam wæs on lenge fíf and hundnigontiges fingra lenge ofer þweoras ða fingras (i.e.

    taking the breadth, not the length, of the fingers

    ),
    • Anglia xi. 2, 28.

  • Andlang ðære þorngrǽfan þwyres ofer Hysseburnan on gósdæne; ðonne andlang ðæs weges ðe líð andlang gósdæne þwyres ofer in waldes weg,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 148, 4-7.

  • Þwyres ofer þrý crundelas; ofer ða strét; þwyres ofer ða dúne,

    • 13, 32: vi. 226, 15.

  • Hé hét ǽnne weall þwyres ofer eall ðæt lond ásettan from sǽ óþ sǽ,

    • Ors. 6, 15
      • ;
    • Swt. 270, 13.

  • Binnan ðam díce ðe wé gemynegodon ðæt Severus hét ðwyrs ofer ðæt eálond gedícian

    intra vallum quod Severum trans insulam fecisse commemoravimus,

    • Bd. 1, 11
      • ;
    • S. 480, 19.

  • Ðá wolde hé þurhþýn hí þwyres mid ðam swurde

    then he wanted to thrust her through, from one side to the other, with the sword,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 12, 225.

  • Hí wurdon áworpene intó ðam byrnendum ofne gebundene ðwyres (

    bound across, with their arms bound to their sides

    ),
    • Homl. Th. ii. 312, 1.
on the flank
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  • Ðá hét hé ðæt hiere ( the serpent ) mon mid ðǽm palistas þwyres on wurpe. Ðá wearð hiere mid ánum wierpe án ribb forod,

    • Ors. 4, 6
      • ;
    • Swt. 174, 10.

  • Hé gesette twá folc diégellíce on twá healfa ... and bebeád ðǽm twám folcum,... ðæt hié on Reguluses fird on twá healfa þwyres on fóre (

    that they should attack Regulus's army on both flanks

    ),
    • 176, 3.

  • Hannibal him com þwyres on,

    • 4, 8
      • ;
    • Swt. 188, 15.
perversely, wrongly
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  • Godes wiþerwinnan ðe willaþ ǽfre þwires,

    • Jud. Thw. 157, 30.

  • Se ðe his neáxtan hataþ, se bið geháten ðæs áwyrgedan deófles bearn, ðe wyle ǽfre ðwyres,

    • Basil admn. 4
      • ;
    • Norm. 44, 14.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. tweres oblique;
cf.
Ger. quer, quer über
:
Icel. þvers, þvers um across
:
Dan. tværs, tværs over across.
]
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v. next word.
Linked entries
v.  þwires þwyre.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “þweores.” 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/32370.

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  • þweores, prep.; adv.

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