Hín-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hín-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: l.

Definitions

1 hín-ness

f. I. a trampling upon, subjecting :-- Ic salde iów mæhte hénnisse (hénisæs, L.) l niðrunge. ofer nédre dedi uobis potestatem calcandi supra serpentes, Lk. R. 10, 19, II. a laying waste, destruction :-- Godes cyricena hýnnysse (bærnesse, ) and slege martyra unblinnendlíce dón wæs incendiis ecclesiarum, caedibus martyrum incessabiliter acta est, Bd. 1, 6; Sch. 19, I. hin-ness

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛁᚾ-ᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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