Wǽpned-mann

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wǽpned-mann

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wǽpned-mann
m. I. a male, a man:--Þriwa on gére ǽlc wǽpnedman (omne masculinum tuum) ætýwð beforan Drihtne, Ex. 23, 17: Num. 34, 23. Wǽpnedman (-men?) mares, Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 50. Se cyning wæs gód wǽpnedman rex erat vir bonus, Bd. 3, 7; S. 529, 39. Ðú (Eve) scealt wǽpnedmen wesan on gewealde, Cd. Th. 56, 29; Gen. 919. Wæs se gryre læssa efne swá micle swá bið wíggryre wífes be wǽpnedmen, Beo. Th. 2573; B. 1284. God hí geworhte wǽpnedman and wímman (wǽpman and wýfman, MS. A.: wǽpned and wímman, MS. B.: wépnedmenn and wífmenn, Rush.) masculum et feminam fecit eos Deus, Mk. Skt. 10, 6. Heó eode tó ðære wǽpnedmanna stówe (ad locum virorum), Bd. 3, 11; S. 536, 19. XX M wífmonna and wǽpned-monna viginti millia puerorum ac foeminarum, Ors. 3, 7; Swt. 116, 31. Ðara manna eallra, mid wífmannum and wǽpnedmannum, Blickl. Homl. 79, 19. Hiora wíf ofslógan ealle ða wǽpnedmen ðe him on neáweste wǽron, Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 48, 1, 6, 8. II. of plants, a male:--Gif man scyle mugcwyrt tó lǽcedóme habban, ðonne nime man ða reádan wǽpnedmen and ða grénan wífmen, Lchdm. iii. 72, 20.

Related words: wǽpen-mann. wæpned-mann

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