Deád-bǽre

Old English Dictionary Entry

Deád-bǽre

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 deád-bǽre

def. se deád-bǽra, seó, ðæt deád-bǽre; adj. Death-bearing, deadly; mortĭfer, lethālis, lethĭfer :-- Deádbǽre lethāle, Mone B. 1859. Se drenc deádbǽra wæs the drink was deadly, Homl. Th. ii. 158, 22, Ðæt ðín heorte forhtige for ðam deádbǽrum drence that thy heart may fear the deadly drink, i. 72, 16. Deádbǽre sprancan lethifĕras labruscas, Mone B. 1993. dead-bære

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ᛞᛖᚪᛞ-ᛒǽᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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