Healoc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Healoc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; m. Related words: holc, hylca. healoc

Definitions

1 healoc

n.[?] A hollow, corner, bending :-- Hér sint tácn áheardodre lifre ge on ðám læppum and healocum and filmenum here are symptoms of a hardened liver both on the lobes and hollows and membranes, L. M. R. 21; Lchdm. ii. 204, 5. [Cf.(?) Prompt. Parv. halke angulus, latibulum: Chauc. halke, corner.]

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛠᛚᚩᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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