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Hunig-teár

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1 hunig-teár

m. Distillation from the comb, without squeezing, virgin honey; mel purissimum, e favo sponte quod effluxit, mell stillativum,' Lchdm. ii. 396, col. 1 :-- Hunigteár nectar, Hpt. Gl. 468. Hunigteáres nectaris, Mone Gl. p. 384. Sý gemenged tógædre hunigteár and wín let virgin honey and wine be mixed together, Lchdm. iii. 292, 16. Besmyra mid hunigteáre, 11. [Cf. O. E. Hom. swete al swá án hunitíar felle upe ȝíure híerte, i. 217, 27.] hunig-tear
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ᚻᚢᚾᛁᚷ-ᛏᛖᚪᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc