Smicer

Old English Dictionary Entry

Smicer

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 smicer

adj. Fair, fine, beautiful, elegant :-- Smicre elegans, loquax, Txts. 59, 737: elegans, Wrt. Voc. ii. 29, 22. Smicerre ansíne eleganti forma, 30, 26. Smicere leóþe carmine rithmico, 23, 24. Windan manigne smicerne wǽn and manig ǽnlic hús settan and fegerne tún timbrian. Shrn. 163, 16. Hió bit ð æt hí findon twá smicere scencingcuppan intó beódern she asks them to provide two fair goblets for the refectory, Ch. Th. 536, 7. Ðæs smicerestan politissimis. Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 26. [He warrþ till atell defell off shene smikerr enngeil, Orm. 13679. O. H. Ger. smechar elegans, delicatus.] smicer

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ᛋᛗᛁᚳᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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