Ge-wǽge

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wǽge

Substitute: Weight. (1) determination of amount by weighing :-- In swá hwelce giwége (on suá huælc gewǽge, L.) giwegen gí bióðon eft giwegen bið iów in qua mensura mensi fueritis remetietur uobis, Mk. R. 4, 24. Genim ðú betonican þǽre wyrte twá trymessan gewǽge (by weight), Lch. i. 76, 11: 17: 22: 78, 8: 13. (2) an amount determined by weighing. (a) indefinite :-- Gewoege l gemet gód hiá sellað mensuram bonam dabunt, Lk. L. 6, 38. (b) a definite amount :-- Genim ðú huniges ánre yndsan gewǽge (cf. genim huniges áne yndsan, 17) take an ounce weight of honey, Lch. i. 76, 11. Genim þǽre wyrte twégra trymesa gewǽge, 78, 24: 180, 27. Genim týn penega gewǽge, 116, 5: iii. 46, 11. Betonican swilce ánes peninges gewǽge, ii. 108, 4. Cnuca tó dúste ánre tremese gewihte (gewǽge, ), i. 110, 9. [O. H. Ger. ge-wági stater, talentum, mina.] v. sinc-gewǽge. ge-wæge

Related words: l.