Be-hættian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - be-hættian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

be-hættian
p. ode. I. to make bald:--Behættod decalvata (quam-vis caesaries raderetur et decalvata traheretur, Ald. 62), An. Ox. 4466. II. to strip the skin from the head:--Þá cwelleras hine be-hættedon they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair (2 Maccabees 7, 7), Hml. S. 25, 126. Behætiian, 116. in Dict. be-hættian

Related words: hættian

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