f. I. a dwelling-place :-- Ðis ða wyrta sind, ða se wilda fugel somnaþ tó his wícstówe, dǽr hé nest gewyrceþ, Exon. Th. 230, 6; Ph. 468. Ðá hé geseah ða wícstówa ðara ryhtwísena Israhéla justorum tabernacula respiciens. Past. 54; Swt. 423, 13. II. a camp, an encampment; both singular and plural forms are used to translate castra :-- Hé nemde ðære stówe naman Manaim, ðæt is wícstów (castra), Gen. 32, 2. Ðá hét ic ða fyrd wícian; wæs seó wícstów on lengo xxes furlonga long, Nar. 4, 15. Hé of ðære wícstówe áfór, Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 76, 13. Bútan ðære wícstówe extra castra, Lecastra ponetis, Ex. 14, 2. On ðǽm wícstówum in castris Persarum, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 126, 5. Ǽr hé ða wícstówa bereáfian mehte, Swt. 128, 9. Siþþan hé wícstówa náme, 2, 4; Swt. 76, 10: Num. 11, 31. wic-stow