Blin

Old English Dictionary Entry

Blin

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: blinn, e; Related words: linnan

Definitions

1 blin

f. [ = be-lin; to cease] A ceasing, rest, intermission; cessatio, intermissio :-- Bútan blinne without ceasing; sine intermissione, Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 20: Elen. Kmbl. 1648; El. 826. [Old Eng. blin, Ben. Jonson.] DER. un-ablinn.

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛚᛁᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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