Hyscan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hyscan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hyscan
p. te To mock, deride, taunt, reproach :-- Hé hiscþ geþeahtas ealdra reprobat consilia principum, Ps. Lamb. 32, 10. Seðe eardaþ on heofonum hyseþ [hyscþ?] hý qui habitat in cælis irridebit eos, Ps. Spl. T. 2, 4. Ðonne hyscte hé on ða godcundan láreówas, Wulfst. 235, 25. Hyhsan conviciari, Gl. Prud. 696. Hihsendes subsannantis, Hpt. Gl. 524.

Related words: husc, ge-, in-hyscan. hyscan

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