Old English Dictionary Entry

Slician

Related words: Prompt. Parv. 458, note 2, where 'to sleek clothes' is quoted from Kennett, and a passage from Walter de Bibelesworth is given (v. also Wrt. Voc. i. 172, 13) : la dame ge ta koyf luche

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1 slician

p. ode To make sleek, smooth, or glossy :-- Heó glytenode swá scýnende sunne oððe nígslýcod hrægel, Shrn. 149, 8. [(slike). Til sleuth and slepe slyken his sides, Piers P. 2, 98. The word is also applied to making a fair show in speech :-- Alle þine wordes beoþ isliked, And so bisemed and biliked, O. and N. 841. Wordes afaited and ysliked, Ayenb. 212, 2. He can so well his wordes slike, Gower ii. 365, 22. See, too, Jamieson's Dictionary, sleekie fawning and deceitful; sleekit smooth, shining (of the face); but also, deceitful; sleekit-gabbit smooth-tongued.]

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ᛋᛚᛁᚳᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Shrn.: Shrine (collection of OE texts)

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