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Old English Dictionary Entry

Scitte

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1 scitte

f. Looseness of the bowels, diarrhœa :-- Wið ðon ðe men mete untela melte and gecirre on yfele wǽtan and scittan, Lchdm. ii. 226, 6. [Prompt. Parv. skytte or flux fluxes, lienteria, dissenteria, dyaria : Icel. skita diarrhœa.] scitte
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᛏᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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