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cille

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
cille, an; f.
A vessel for use with fire, a pan; a lamp
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  • Cellae

    lancola,

      Corp. Gl. H. 6, 197.
  • Citel cacabum, hwer lebes, cille

    lancona,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 35-37.
  • Cylle

    lancona,

    ii.
      52, 3.
  • Cylle, brond

    calbrum,

      127, 70.
  • Stód se leóma him of swylce fýren cylle ongeán norðdǽl

    portabant facem ignis contra Aquilonem,

      Bd. 5, 23; Sch. 687, 22.
  • Man sceal habban . . . leóhtfæt, blácern, cyllan, sápbox,

      Angl. ix. 264, 22.
  • Gefyllde hé mid wætere ealle þǽre cyrcean ciellan (cillan, cyllan,

    v. ll., lampades;

    cf. leóhtfatu,
      43, 18), Gr. D. 44, 14.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. kella trulla; fiur-kella receptaculum ignis; rouh-kella thuribulum.]
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