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Cwice

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f. Quick-growing grass, couch-grass, quitch-grass; gramen :-- Cwice gramen, Ælfc. Gl. 42; Som. 64, 24; Wrt. Voc. 31, 34. Genym ðysse wyrte leáf, ðe man gramen, and óðrum naman cwice nemneþ take leaves of this herb, which is named gramen, and by another name quitch, Herb. 79; Lchdm. i. 182, 8: Lchdm. iii. 12, 28: 16, 8. Genim cwican take quitch, L. M. 2, 51; Lchdm. ii. 268, 10. [Plat. qwäk, queek, quek, quik viticum repens: Dut. kweek-gras, n. dog's grass: Ger. quecke, f. any grass with creeping roots: Dan. qwik-græs couch-grass: Swed. qwick-hwete, n. dog's grass growing among wheat.] cwice
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚳᚹᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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