Wif-þing
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wif-þing
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- wif-þing
- pl. n. Matters connected with women, marriage, intercourse :-- Tó wífþingum foxes tægles se ýtemæsta dǽl on earm áhangen; ðú gelýfest ðæt ðis sý tó wífþingum on bysmær (irritamentum ad coitum) gedón, Lchdm. i. 340, 22 ; 368, 16. Wífþing, gifta, hǽmed hymeneos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 43, 13. Be ðam men ðe gelómlíce wífþing begǽð de homine qui crebras nuptias conciliat, L. Ecg. P. ii. 20, tit. ; Th. ii. 180, 32. [He weddede þat mæiden, and nom heo to his bedden; þer wes wífðing riche, Laym. 31128.] Cf. brýd-þing. wif-þing