BYDEN

Old English Dictionary Entry

BYDEN

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: bydenn, Related words:

Definitions

1 BYDEN

e; f. I. a bushel; modius :-- Cwyst ðú cymþ ðæt leóhtfæt ðæt hit beó under bydene aset numqitid venit lucerna ut sub modio ponatur? Mk. Bos. 4, 21: Lk. Bos. ll, 33. II. a barrel, tun, butt; dolium, cupa :-- Hí mec baðedon in bydene they bathed me in a tub, Exon. 107b; Th. 409, 24; Rä. 28, 6. Byden cupa, Ælfc. Gl. 49; Som. 65, 94; Wrt. Voc. 34, 24. [O. H. Ger. butin cupa.] byden

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ᛒᚣᛞᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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