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Old English Dictionary Entry

óþ-sceotan

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1 óþ-sceotan

to shoot away, escape, turn aside, hurry off :-- Swá hwá swá óþscýt fram ánnysse ðæs geleáfan whoever turns aside from the unity of the faith, Homl. Th. i. 370, 17. Man gehylt ðæt hé. hæfþ gif hé him ondrǽt ðæt hit him óþsceóte a man guards what he has, if he is afraid that it will escape from him, Pro
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ᚩᚦ-ᛋᚳᛇᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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