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Wermód

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m. Wormwood:--Wermód (uuermód, uermódae) absinthium, Txts. 37, 35: Wrt. Voc. ii. 4, 11: i. 79, 29. Weremód, 67, 23. Ic eom wráþre ðonne wermód sý, Exon. Th. 425, 23; Rä. 41, 60. Wermód. Ðeós wyrt ðe man absinthium and óþrum naman wermód nemneþ, Lchdm. i. 216, 17. Se fúla wermód, ii. 312, 18. Dríges wermódes blóstman, 250, 3. Gif hit sié sumor, dó wermódes sǽdes dust tó . . . gif hit sié winter, ne þearft þú ðone wermód tó dón, 180, 27. Grénne wermód oððe drígne, 206, 24: 296, 13. Wring on wermód wearmne, 310, 10. Nim wermód nioþoweardne, 326, 10. Wærmód, i. 206, 10. Wyrmód, iii. 50, 17, 20. Súþerne wermód (artemisia abrotanon), ii. 34, 27: 178, 26. Ðone súþernan wermód, ðæt is prutene, and óþerne wermód, 236, 20. Twégra cynna wermód, i. 374, 6. Wyrmód, iii. 4, 9. Wermód drincan sace hefige getácnaþ to drink wormwood in a dream betokens grievous strife, 198, 24. [Wermod absinthium, Wülck. Gl. 554, 11 (13th cent.): 560, 12 (15th cent.). Wormode, 645, 35 (15th cent.). Wormwod, 711, 24 (15th cent.). Wick. wermod: Pall. wermode: O. H. Ger. wermuota (weri-) absinthium: O. L. Ger. wermnode.] wermod
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German
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Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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