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Old English Dictionary Entry

Hwicce, hwice (?)

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1 hwicce, hwice (?)

f. A box, chest: -- Huice trio (tria columbarium species, Migne), Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 76. Hwicce clustella (ut doctor verbi clauslella resolvat. Ald. 138, 23), An. Ox. 18 b, II. ¶ as part of a local name :-- In loco ubi ruricoli nominantur Huiccewudu, C. D. ii. 10, 5. [Til . . . Perneles porfyl be put in heore whucche, Piers P. A. 4, 102. Alle woned in þe whichche (the ark), Allit. Pms. 49, 362. Whyche cista, archa, Prompt. 242. Make a luytel whucche forte do in ꝥ blod, Jos. 39.]
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Runic Inscription

ᚻᚹᛁᚳᚳᛖ, ᚻᚹᛁᚳᛖ (?)

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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