Scitte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scitte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

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1 scitte

f. Looseness of the bowels, diarrhœa :-- Wið ðon ðe men mete untela melte and gecirre on yfele wǽtan and scittan, Lchdm. ii. 226, 6. [Prompt. Parv. skytte or flux fluxes, lienteria, dissenteria, dyaria : Icel. skita diarrhœa.] scitte

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ᛋᚳᛁᛏᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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