Cnyss(?)

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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cnyss(?)

f. A beating; pulsus:--Cardiacus (glossed by cardian, i.e. pulsum cordis patiens) heortan cnysse (þrowiende), Hpt. 31, 13, 321. Or is heort-ancnysse (= -angnysse) to be read ? Cf. cardiacus dicitur qui patitur laborem cordis, vel morbus cordis heortcoþa vel ece, Wrt. Voc. i. 128, 64.

Related words: cnyssan, ge-cnos. cnyss