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beó-breád

  • noun [ neuter ]
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beó-breád, bió-breád, bí-breád, es; n.
BEE-BREAD; apum panis. ☞ Quite distinct from weax beeswax; cera = κηρόs : and hunig-camb honey-comb; favus the pollen of flowers collected by bees and mixed with honey for the food of the larvæ;
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  • Ic eom swétra ðonne ðú beóbreád blénde mid hunige

    I am sweeter than if thou blendedst bee-bread with honey

    • Exon. 111 a
    • ;
    • Th. 425, 20
    • ;
    • Rä. 41, 59.
  • Hí synt swétran ðonne hunig oððe beóbreád

    they are sweeter than honey or bee-bread

    • Ps. Th. 18, 9.
  • Þynceþ bíbreád swétre; gif he ǽr bitres onbyrgeþ

    bee-bread seems sweeter, if he before has had a taste of bitter

    • Bt. Met. Fox 12, 17
    • ;
    • Met. 12, 9.
  • Hit is hunige micle and beóbreáde betere and swétre

    it is better and sweeter than much honey and bee-bread

    • Ps. Th. 118, 103.
honey-comb; favus, sometimes, from a deficient knowledge of natural history, beó-breád is used for hunig-camb
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  • Swétran [MS. swetra] ofer hunig and beóbreáde

    dulciora super mel et favum

    • Ps. Lamb. 18, 11.
  • Híg brohton him-dǽl gebrǽddes fisces, and beóbreád

    illi obtulerunt ei partem piscis assi, et favum mellis

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    oί έπέδωκαν αύτψ ίχθύos όπτoύ μέρos, καì άπò μελισσίoυ κηρίoυ;

    and from a honey-comb

    • Lk. Bos. 24, 42.
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v.  bí-breád bió-breád beón-breád.
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  • beó-breád, n.