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Old English Dictionary Entry

Cínu

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1 cínu

f. A chink, fissure; rima, fissura :-- Cínu rima vel fissura, Wrt. Voc. 85, 18. Gemétte he ðæt fæt swá gehál dæt ðǽr nán cínu on næs gesewen he found the vessel so whole that there was no chink seen in it, Homl. Th. ii. 154, 22. f. cinu
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛁᚾᚢ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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