Must

Old English Dictionary Entry

Must

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 must

m. (?) Must, new wine :-- Must mustum (cf. níwe wín mustum, 27, 47), Wrt. Voc. i. 82, 36. Must mid hunig gemenged inomellum, 27, 45. Heortan manna must and wíndrinc myclum blissaþ vinum laetificet cor hominis, Ps. Th. 103, 14. Ne miht ðú wín wringan on midne winter, ðeáh ðé wel lyste wearmes mustes, Bt. 5, 2 ; Fox 10, 32. Ðás men sindon mid muste fordrencte ('these men are full of new wine,' Acts 2, 13), Homl. Th. i. 314, 21. [O. H. Ger. most; m. : Ger. most; m. From Latin.] must

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