Wrécd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wrécd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: wrǽð, es; m. Related words: beadowrǽd (Lchdm. ii. 350, 29); wríþan. wrecd

Definitions

1 wrécd

I. a bandage, band, fillet :-- Wrǽda fasciarum, wrǽd fascia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 21-22: 39, 69. Wrǽd sceal wunden. Exon. Th. 343, 6; Gn. Ex. 153. Sió wund wile tóberan, gif hió ne bið gewriiten mid wrǽde (wrǽðe, Cott. MSS. ), Past. 17 ; Swt. 123, 16: Lchdm. ii. 306, 18. Se mec wrǽde on furþum legde, bende and clomme, Exon. Th. 383, 20; Rä. 4, 13. Genim nioþowearde wrætte, dó on reádne wrǽd, binde ðæt heáfod mid, Lchdm. ii. 304, . 26. Wrǽdas redimicula, Hpt. Gl. 527, 7. Wrǽda fasciarum, vinculorum, 488, 48. Sume heora fnada and wrǽdas gerriiccliaþ, R. Ben. 135, 27. Gl. 529, 4. II. what is bound together, a bundle :-- Wrǽdes fascis, Hpt. Gl. 529, 4. III. a band, company, flock. Cf. wrǽd-mǽlum :-- Wrǽð grex, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 8, 32. Wrǽda manipulorum (innumeris manipulorum milibus equitatu et peditatu, Ald. 76), 525, 24.

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