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Old English Dictionary Entry

Mixen

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e; f. A mixen, dung-heap; also dung :-- On ðære nyðemestan fléringe (of the ark) wæs heora gangpyt and heora myxen, Boutr. Scrd. 21, 7. Meoxine sterculii, Germ. 397, 449. Job sæt on his mixene, Homl. Th. ii. 452, 28. Nis hyt nyt ne on eorþan ne on myxene (mixen, Lind.: mixenne, Rush.) neque in terram neque in sterculinium utile est, Lk. Skt. 14, 35. Ðeós wyrt biþ cenned on ealdum myxenum (myxennum, MS. H.), Herb. 14, 1; Lchdm. i. 106, 12. Meoxena sterquilinia, Hpt. Gl. 504, 2. Ic sendo micxseno (mixenne, Rush.), mittam stercora, Lk. Skt. Lind. 13, 8. mixen
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛗᛁᚳᛋᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Lk.
Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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