Scima

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - scima

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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scima
m. Shadow, gloom:?-Ne hér (in hell) dæg lýhteþ for scedes sciman, Cd. Th. 271, 15; Sat. 106. Hýdeþ hine ǽghwylc æfter sceades sciman, Salm. Kmbl. 233; Sal. 116. [Cf. Uualdandes craft seal thi scadouuan mid skimon virtus altissimi obumbrabit te, Hel. 279. M. H. Ger. scheme a shadow, mask; larva: Ger. schemen.]

Related words: scimian. scima

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