Tó-weaxan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tó-weaxan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

tó-weaxan
to grow in a scattered way, cover with a scattered growth :-- Under þám eáhþýrle geonode mycclu neolnes, and seó wæs eall tóweaxen mid mycelnessum þára clifstána sub fenestra ingens praecipitiwm patebat saxorum molibus asperum (aspersum seems to have been read?), Gr. D. 159, 26. [Cf. Þá gyrden ... wǽron tógædre iwæxene ... and wéron ufeweard on ðreó tóweaxen, H.R.N. 22, 7.] to-weaxan
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