A-sceótan

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-sceótan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: he -scýt, -scýtt; Related words:

Definitions

1 a-sceótan

p. -sceát, pl. -scuton; pp. -scoten [a, sceótan to shoot] To shoot forth, shoot, shoot out, fall; jaculari, cum impetu erumpere :-- Hie ne mehton from him nǽnne flán asceótan they could not shoot an arrow from them, Ors. 6, 36; Bos. 132, 8. Ne ascýtt Sennacherib flán into ðære byrig Hierusalem Sennacherib shall not shoot arrows into the city of Jerusalem, Homl. Th. i. 568, 31. Ða eágan of his heáfde ascuton, and on eorþan feóllan the eyes shot out of his head, and fell on the earth, Bd. 1, 7; S. 478, 38. a-sceotan

Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᛋᚳᛖᚩᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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