Gnagan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gnagan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gnagan
Dele bracket at end, and add:--Gnæhð, cíwþ sulcat (corpora vermis), An. Ox. 23, 49. Wyrmas heora bán gnagað byrnendum tóðum vermes lacerant ignitis dentibus ossa, Wlfst. 139, 10: Dóm. L. 211. Wé hédað þǽra crumena ðæs hláfes and ðá Iúdéiscan gnagað þá rinde, Hml. Th. ii. 114, 34. Sceal se hund bán gnagan, Lch. ii. 48, 12. Gnægen conrosus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 24, 35. Gnagene (gragene, MS.) roderentur (leonum rictibus), An. Ox. 2, 224. [O. H. Ger. gnagan: Icel. gnaga.] gnagan
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