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Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-strícan

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1 be-strícan

p. -strác To make a stroke round :-- Wið óman. Genim ane gréne gyrde, and lǽt sittan þone man onmiddan húses flóre, and bestríc hine ymbútan (draw a circle round about him with the rod), and cweð. . . , Lch. iii. 70, 13. [Later the word (like O. H. Ger. pi-stríhhon il-, ob-linere) means to besmear. N.E.D. be-strike.] be-strican
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛋᛏᚱᛁᚳᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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