Sumsende

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sumsende

According to the Old English Dictionary:

sumsende
humming, sounding (of falling rain) :-- Hí (the storm-clouds) feallan lǽtaþ sweart sumsendu (suinsendu? Ger. summen,sumsen to hum, buzz.] sumsende

Related words: swinsian) seáw of bósme, wǽtan of wontbe, Exon. Th. 385, 19; Rä. 4, 47. [

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