Foxes clife

Old English Dictionary Entry

Foxes clife

Old English Dictionary Entry

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Definitions

1 foxes clife

f. The greater burdock; arctium lappa, Lin :-- Genim clifwyrt, sume men hátaþ foxes clife, sume eáwyrt take burdock, some men call it fox's cliver or the greater burdock, some riverwort, L. M. 1, 15; Lchdm. ii. 58, 3: Lchdm. iii. 74, 10. foxes clife

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚳᛋᛖᛋ ᚳᛚᛁᚠᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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