Ge-wenge

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-wenge

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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ge-wenge
n. The cheek; maxilla :-- And ðam ðe ðé slihþ on ðín gewenge et qui to percutit in maxillam, Lk. Bos. 6, 29; and to him that schal smyte thee on o cheke, Wyc. Án strǽl hyne gewundode on hys óðer gewenge an arrow wounded him in one of his cheeks, Shrn. 97, 14. Gewenge maxilla, Ælfc. Gl. 71; Som. 70, 80; Wrt. Voc. 43, 13.

Related words: wenge. ge-wenge

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