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Stór

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1 stór

m. Frankincense, storax :--Ðes stór hoc thus, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 33 ; Zup. 59, 14 : Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 25. Stór ðe biþ of gewringe stacten, 20, 28. Hí him geoffrodon gold and récels and myrran . . . se stór getácnode ðæt hé is sóð God, Homl. Th. i. 116, 9. Áne hand fulle stóres, Lesumite modicum storacis, Gen. 43, 11. Ða ðe offrodon ðone stór qui offerebant incensum, Num. 16, 35. Brimne stór and hwítne rýcels, Lchdm. iii. 14, 21. [Encens, stor olibanus, Wrt. Voc. i. 140, 24 (13th cent.) ' Mj bene bi ydiȝt beuore þe ase þet stor.' þet stor huanne hit is ope þe uere smelþ zuete, Ayenb. 211, 17.]
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Runic Inscription

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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