Melc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Melc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: meolc; Related words:

Definitions

1 melc

adj. Giving milk, milch :-- Melc foetus, Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 57: fetus, ii. 36, 33. Melce and tydrende foetus, 36, 32. Hé geseah wilde hinde melce and se geþyrsta mon meolcode ða hinde, Shrn. 130, 3. Wið tittia sár wífa ðe beóþ melce, Herb. 19, 4; Lchdm. i. 112, 26. Meolce breóst ubera, Wrt. Voc. i. 44, 14. [Icel. mjólkr giving ,milk: O. H. Ger. melch foetus: Ger. melk.] melc

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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