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Old English Dictionary Entry

Scilcen[n]

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1 scilcen[n]

f. A female servant or slave, a woman of bad character: -- Hé gemacode ðæt seofon nacode wímmen urnon plegende on heora gesihþum, ðæt heora mód wurde ontend tó gálnysse þurh ðæra scylcena plegan, Hom. Th. ii. 162, 33. [Al nis bute ase a schelchine to sernien þe leafdi, A. R. 12, 24. M. H. Ger. schelkin serva.]
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ᛋᚳᛁᛚᚳᛖᚾ[ᚾ]

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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