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adj. Little known, strange, wonderful, unfamiliar :--Se seldcúþa tungel gebícnode ðæs sóðan cyninges ácennednysse, Homl.Th. i. 106, 27. Hé wæs oflyst ðæs seldcúþan sónes (the sound of Orpheus' harp), Bt. 35, 6 ; Fox 168, 23. Hí willaþ simle hwæthwegu níwes and seldcúþes eówian, 34, 4 ; Fox 138, 29. Ðú hwerfest ymbúton sume wunderlíce and seldcúþe sprǽce, 35, 5 ; Fox 164, 17. Díglu þing tǽcan and seldcúþe, 39, 4 ; Fox 216, 13. Selcúþe reáf varias vestes, Coll. Monast. Th. 27, 9. [Þeo wimon was mid ane sune þat wes a sel-cuð bearn (wonderfol to telle, 2nd MS.), Laym. 280. Þatt wass sellcuþ mecleȝȝc, Orm. 19217. Gif him þuncheð wunder & selkuð of swuch onswere, A. R. 8, 26. Gret outrage we se . . . in selcouthe maners, Pr. C. 1518.] seld-,seld