Meolcian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - meolcian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

meolcian
p. ode. I. to milk, take milk from an animal :-- Se geþyrsta men meolcode ða hinde and dranc ða meolc, Shrn. 130, 4. Nán wíf hire yrfe ne meolcige, bútan heó ða meolc for Godes lufan syllan, Wulfst. 227, 10. Hyt biþ gód ceáp tó milcian, Lchdm. iii. 178, 30. II. to give milk, to suckle (Icel. mjólka to milk; also to give milk.] v. melcan. meolcian

Related words: ge-milcian) :-- Ða breóst ða ðe nǽfre meolcgende nǽron, Blickl. Homl. 93, 32. [

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