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a cloud of minute particles of water, vapour of water, cloud
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  • Hé hét his cnapan háwian tó ðǽre sǽ gif ǽnig mist árise of ðám mycclum brymme. Hml. S. 18, 146.

  • Ðá brǽðas ðæs flǽsces stigon upp on ǽlce healfe geond þá byrig eall swá hit mist wǽre, 23, 38. I a. a fog, steam, haze :-- Of þǽre eá wǽre reócende se mist unáræfnedlicre fýlnesse and unswétes stences

    foetoris intolerabilis nebulam exhalans fluvius,

      Gr. D. 318, 28.

  • Mid þý miste

    (nebula)

    þæs fúlan stences. . . seó fýlnes þæs reócendan mistes,
      319, 10-11.
dimness of eyesight
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  • Wiþ eágna miste . . . ꝥ bið lyb wiþ eágena dimnesse,

      Lch. ii. 30, 11-15, Wurdon his eágan yfele gehefegode mid tóswollenum breáwum
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what obscures mental vision
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  • Hé bið áblend mid ðǽm miste ðára leásunga

    aspersae falsitatis nebulis seductus,

      Past. 340, 3.
  • Gif þú ðone wísdóm selfne geseón wilt, þú ne scealt nénne myst betweón lǽtan þínum eágum and hym. Solil. H. 43, 17.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “mist.” 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/55517.

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