Dim

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - dim

According to the Old English Dictionary:

dim
Add: I. dark, without light, gloomy:--Ꝥ under þǽre brygce urne swýþlíce sweart and dim (niger et caliginosus) eá, Gr. D. 318, 28. Dimne and deópne hellewítes grund, Wlfst. 48, 2. Of dymmum díglum de latebrosis recessibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 55. II. dark-coloured. III. wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy:--Of dimre, earmre calamitosa (fames atrocitate), An. Ox. 3853. Dymre, 2, 261. On ðǽre dimman ádle in that miserable malady, Gú. 1135. IV. dark, wicked; Gen. 685. dim

Related words: dim-híw:--Seó byrgen is bewrigen mid dimmum stánum and yfellicum, Shrn. 66, 24.

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