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cǽg

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§275; §376; §562;
For cǽge; f. l. cǽga; m. , and add
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  • Cǽg

    clavis,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 18.
lit.
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  • Se preóst nolde undón þá duru mid cǽge, Hml. S. 3, 484.Þæs wífes cǽglocan . . . Þǽra cǽgean (cǽgan,

    v. l. )

    heó sceal weardian, ꝥ is hire héddernes cǽge and hyre cyste cǽge and hire tǽgan,
      Ll. Th. i. 418, 20.
fig.
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  • 'Ic ðé betǽce heofonan ríces cǽge.' Nis seó cǽig gylden, ne sylfren, ne of nánum antimbre gesmiðod, ac is se anweald þe him Críst forgeaf,

      Hml. Th. i. 368, 35.
  • Mid ðám unwemlican cǽgan

    virgineo clave,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 76.
  • Wé rímdon ðá cǽga (cǽgea,

    v. l.),

    wé ætiéwen hwæt hié healden,
      Past. 179, 11: Wlfst. 176, 15.
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  • cǽg, n.