Scyte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scyte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: on-, under-, út-, wæter-scyte. scyte

Definitions

1 scyte

m. I. shooting:--Hié fortendun ðæt swíðre breóst foran dæt hit weaxan ne sceolde ðæt hié hæfden ðý strengran scyte (ne sagittarum jactus inpedirentur), Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 46, 13. Dryhten dǽleþ sumum wyrp oððe scyte, Exon. Th. 331, 17; Vy. 69. II. a shot, blow:--Scytum ictibus, Hpt. Gl. 478, 76. III. what is shot or thrown, a javelin, dart:--Scytas iacula, Lchdm. i. lxix, 9. [He þene scute biberh, Laym. 1461. Mid scute of eien, A. R. 60, 16. Wið þe schute wite heo hire, 62, l. An carpenter that sset the ssute, R. Glouc. 537, 4. O. Frs. sket: O. H. Ger. scuz jactus.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᚣᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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