Cýs-lyb

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cýs-lyb

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -lybb, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 cýs-lyb

pl. nom. acc. -lybbu; n. [cýse cheese, lyb, lib a drug] Cheese-drug, rennet or runnet; casei coagulum :-- Haran cýslybb syle drincan ðam wífe give the woman a hare's runnet to drink, Med. ex Quadr. 4, 14; Lchdm. i. 346, 4. Ða meolc geren mid cýslybbe turn the milk with rennet, Lchdm. iii. 18, 11. Cýslybbu coagula, Glos. Prudent. Recd. 141, 25. cys-lyb

Runic Inscription

ᚳᚣᛋ-ᛚᚣᛒ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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