Weoloc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Weoloc

Old English Dictionary Entry

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Definitions

1 weoloc

m. A kind of shell-fish, a whelk, cockle; also the dye obtained from such fish :-- Wioloc coccum, Txts. 55, 594. Uulluc, uuluc involucus, 71, 1115. Weoluc, Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 56 : cochlea, i. 65, 72, Weoloc, 281, 50: ii. 16, 29: conquilium, i. 291, 27. Wurma, weoloc murice, ii. 56, 62. Weluc murice vel conchyleum, i. 56, 8. Weoloces scyll conquilium, 34, 11. Fiscdeáh, weolces conchilii, Hpt. Gl. 524, 19. Lytle snæglas vel weolocas cocleas, Wrt., Voc. ii. 135, 45. Hér beóþ swýþe genihtsume weolocas, of ðám biþ geweorht se weolocreáda tælhg sunt et cochleae satis superque abundantes, quibus tinctura coccinei coloris conficitur, Bd. 1. 1 ; S. 473, 19. Uuiolocas, uuylocas cocleas, Txts. 53, 542. Wilocas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 81. weoloc

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ᚹᛇᛚᚩᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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