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Old English Dictionary Entry

Deád-bǽre

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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
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛞᛖᚪᛞ-ᛒǽᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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