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Old English Dictionary Entry

Sceáda

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1 sceáda

f. (?)), an; m. The top of the head, parting of the hair :-- Hé tófylleþ feaxes scádan conquassabit verticem capilli, Ps. Th. 67, 21. [Crulle was his heer, and as the gold it schon . . . Ful streyt and evene lay his joly schood. Miller's Tale, 130. The nayl y-dryven in the schode a-nyght. Knight's Tale, 1149. Halliwell's Dict. shed, and E. D. S. Pub. Lincolnshire, shed the parting of the hair. Cf. Prompt. Parv. schodynge of the heede discrimen: O. L. Ger. scéthlo, sceithlo vertex (capilli): O. H. Ger. sceitila vertex; fahs-sceitila cervix capilli.]
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛖᚪᛞᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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German
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O. H. Ger.
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Works & Authors

Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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