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Wull

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f. Wool :-- Uul lana, Wrt. Voc. ii. 112, 44. Wul, i. 66, 29: 82, 7. Wull, ii. 51, 61. Unáwaxen wul lana sucida, 54, 6. Unáwæscen wul, i. 61, 8. Rammes wul (wull, ), Lchdm. i. 356, 11. Ða loccas hire heáfdes wǽron swá hwíte swá wull, Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 177. Gá seó wǽge wulle tó .cxx. p., L. Edg. ii. 8; Th. i. 270, 3. Wulle flýs lanam, Ps. Th. 147, 5. Ne wát ic mec beworhtne wulle flýsum (uullan fliúsum, Txts. 150, 3), Exon. Th. 417, 12; Rä. 36, 3. Hí beóð gegyrede gódre wulle, Ps. Th. 64, 14. Mid línene cláðe oððe mid eówocigre wulle, Lchdm. ii. 182, 5. Mid hnesce wulle oferwríðe ealle ða scearpan, 130, 10. Nim wǽte wulle, i. 312, 12: 362, 17: Ps. Surt. 147, 16. Wullan (? the MS. has wulla with a stroke after the a) lanam, Kent. Gl. 1135. Wulla lanas, Hpt. Gl. 524, 14. [Goth. wulla: O. H. Ger. wolla: Icel. ull.]
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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

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