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Sirwung

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1 sirwung

f. Plotting, machination, contrivance :--Beó áídlod Amanes sirwung ongeán ðám Judéiscum, Homl. As. 101, 308. Be hláfordes syrwunge. Gif hwá embe cynincg oððe hláford syrwie of plotting against a lord. If any man plot against king or lord, L. C. S. 58 ; Th. i. 408, 1. Gif hwá ofsleá his ðone néhstan þurh syrwunge (with guile, Exod. 21, 14), L. Alf. 13 ; Th. i. 48, 1, note. Hé cýdde his fácenfulle syrewunge, Homl. Th. i. 82, 18. Mid syrewungum hé becom tó ðære cynelícan geþincþe, 80, 34. God heóld hine wið ðæs deófles syrwungum, ii. 454, 3. Serewungum machinamentis, Hpt. Gl. 478, 54. Syrwunga insidias, Hymn. Surt. 47, 26. Samson heora syrwunga undergeat, Jud. 16, 3.
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ᛋᛁᚱᚹᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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C.
Corpus Christi College MS
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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