Cwealm

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cwealm

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cwealm
Add:--Cwealm nex, Wrt. Voc. ii. 62, 21. Þæt fífte (the fifth plague in Egypt) wæs hyra nýtena cwealm (pecorum et jumentorum strages), Ors. 1, 7; S. 38, 6. Æfter þǽra cilda cwealme (the murder of the Innocents), Mart. H. 10, 10. Mid hungre oþþe mid cwealme with famine or with pestilence, Hml. S. 13, 143. Generian from þon écan cwealme, Bl. H. 25, 28. Hé lécnode monigo of cualmum (plagis), Lk. L. 7, 21. Nelle wé ná ꝥ þú swelte þurh missenlice and mænigfealde cwealmas and tintergu nolumus te per varios cruciatus mori, Gr. D. 254, 6.

Related words: beorþor-, mǽg-, mann-, slit-cwealm. cwealm

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