Lídig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lídig

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 lídig

adj. Lithe, pliant, supple, flexible, soft, yielding :-- Heó biþ líðig swá cláþ ongeán deófles láre it [a man's heart] is pliant as cloth to the devil's teaching, Wulfst. 234, 22. Ðá gelǽhte Petrus hire líðian [líðigan, MSS. U. B.] hand then Peter took her supple hand, Homl. Skt. 10, 73. On his líðegum cneówum, Homl. Th. ii. 298, 27. His líðegan fingeras, 512, 1. lidig

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ᛚᛁᛞᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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