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Weler

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m.: e; f. A lip, (1) masculine or uncertain:--Weler labium, Wrt. Voc. i. 70, 48. Wæler labrum, 64, 53. Welor labium, 282, 69: ii. 51, 67. Neoðera welor album, 7, 79. Weolure labio, Lchdm. i. lxx, 4. Weleras labia, Ps. Spl. 11, 2, 4: 65, 12: Ps. Th. 62, 5: 65, 12: Kent. Gl. 1002. Weleras (weloras, Cott. MSS.), Past. 15; Swt. 91, 17. Weleras (welras, ), R. Ben. 2, 22. Weoloras, Ps. Th. 30, 20. Welera labiorum, Ps. Spl. 20, 2. Welerum labiis, 62, 6: 119, 2: Mt. Kmbl. 15, 8: Mk. Skt. 7, 6: Homl. Th. ii. 450, 26: labellis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 51, 68. Wælerum labiis, Rtl. 174, 17. Walerum, 179, 11. Welrum buccis, buccellis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 126, 66: labellis, Hpt. Gl. 507, 46. Weolorum labiis, Ps. Th. 11, 2: 20, 2. Wiþ sárum weolorum, gesmire mid hunige ða weoloras, Lchdm. ii. 54, 20. Weleras labia, Ps. Spl. 11, 3: Homl. Th. i. 568, 33: Exon. Th. 363, 15; Wal. 54. Weoloras, Ps. Th. 11, 3. (2) in Ps. Surt., and occasionally elsewhere, the word is feminine:--Wégende welere lying lips; labium mentiens (cf. [wele]ra labium, 418), Kent. Gl. 596. Welure labia, Ps. Surt. 11, 3. Weolure, 62, 6: 65, 14: 70, 23. Weolere, 30, 19: 62, 4. Weolre, 11, 5: 118, 171. Weolera labiorum, 20, 3: 58, 13. Weolerum labiis, 58, 8: 118, 13: 119, 2: 139, 3. Weolure labia, 11, 4. Ic ne wirne míne welora labia mea non prohibebo, Past. 49; Swt. 380, 10. Gif mannes múð sár sié, genim betonican . . . lege on ða weolore, Lchdm. ii. 48, 29. [Goth. wairiló.] weler
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Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Mk.
Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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