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be-sengan

  • verb [ weak ]
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be-sengan, p. -sengde; pp. -senged, -sengd
To singe, scorch, burn; ustulare, urere, æstuare
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  • Beren ear beseng

    singe a barley ear,

      L. M. 1, 51; Lchdm. ii. 124, 18.
  • Óðra wéron forberned oððe besenged [MS. besenced]

    alia æstuaverunt,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 13, 6.
  • Hí besáwon on ða besengdan burh and on ða wéstan

    they looked on the burnt and wasted city,

      Ors. 2, 8; Bos. 51, 42.
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v.  sengan.
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