f. I. change, alteration, vicissitude :-- Ðæt is wræclíc wrixl in wera lífe, ðætte moncynnes Scyppend onféng æt fǽmnan flǽsc, and sió weres friga wiht ne cúþe, Exon. Th. 26, 12; Cri. 416. God, ðú ðe gimetgaþ giscæfta wrixla (rerum vices), Rtl. 164, 12. II. where there is alternation, alternation, exchange :-- Mid ðý hí ðysse ungesǽligan wrixie (hac infelici vicissitudine, i. e. the passing from heat to cold and vice versa) ðrǽste wǽron. Bd. 5, 12 ; S. 628, 2. III. where there is reciprocal action, interchange :-- Ðǽr wæs heard plega, wælgára wrixl, Cd. Th. 120, 5 ; Gen. 1990. IV. where one thing takes the place of another, place, stead :-- Ðomie sculon hié gadrian óðer ierfe on ðæs wrixie (wriexle, Hatt. MS. ) ðe hé ǽr sealdon, Past. 45 ; Swt. 340, 18. Hæfdon hí mid him gehálgode tabulan on wígbedes wrixie habentes secum tabulam altaris vice dedicatam, Bd. 5, 10; S. 624, 34. V. a loan: -- Borge odde wrixie mutuo. Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 5. Wrixie mutuum (Lk. 6, 34), 74, 43. VI. what is given in return, return, requital :-- Hé forgeald wyrsan wrixie wælhlem ðone ; . . . hé him on heáfde helm gescær, Beo. Th. 5930; B. 2969.