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Feaxede

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1 feaxede

adj. Having long hair, long-haired; cŏmātus :-- Sume men cweðaþ ðæt cométa síe feaxede [fexede, Th. 162, 9, col. 2, 3; 163, 10] steorra, forðæm ðǽr stent lang leóma of, hwílum on áne healfe, hwílum on ǽlce healfe some men say that a comet is a long-haired star, because there stands a long ray from it, sometimes on one side, sometimes on each side; Chr. 891; Th. 162, 9-14, col. 1. DER. ge-feaxode, -fexede, síd-fexede. feaxede
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ᚠᛠᚳᛋᛖᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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