Hinder-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hinder-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 hinder-weard

adj. Backward, slow :-- Nis hé hinderweard swár ne swongor swá sume fuglas ða ðe late þurh lyft lácaþ fiþrum non tamen est tarda, ut volucres quæ corpore magno incessus pigros per grave pondus habent, Exon. 60 a; Th. 220, 2; Ph. 314. hinder-weard

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛁᚾᛞᛖᚱ-ᚹᛠᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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