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Seten

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1 seten

e; f. I. a set, shoot, branch :-- Setene propagines, Ps. Surt. 79, 12. II. a nursery, plantation:-- Setin pla[n]taria, Wrt. Voc. ii. 117, 49. Plantunga seten plantaria, 65, 76. Ǽghwilc wæstma seten ða ðe ne sette fæder mín omnis plantatio quam non plantavit Pater meus, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 15, 13, III.what is planted or set:-- Gif mon gesíðcundne monnan ádrífe, fordrífe ðý botle næs ðære setene (the ejected tenant was not to be deprived of what he had planted (?); or seten. he was to be compensated for the cultivation of the land (?), L. In. 68; Th. i. 146, 8. IV. a cultivated place. and feldsætennum campo, Ps. Lamb. 77, 12. planting, cultivation, a setting, putting. a stopping, See also inseten. seten
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Runic Inscription

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ᛋᛖᛏᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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