Ræsc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ræsc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ræsc
Substitute: ræsc, es; m. A heavy shower :-- Foreweal hreósendlicum ræscum propugnaculum ruituris (ignium) imbribus, An. Ox. 3974. Naescum (raescum?) tractibus (spumosis remorum tractibus, Ald. 3, 4, the glosses may have wished to represent the showers of spray made by the oars), Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 77.

Related words: líg-, líget-ræsc. ræsc

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