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byrst
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Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Verb
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Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
byrst
bursts, breaks, fails; 3rd pers. pres. of berstan.
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Possibly connected entries from the Supplement:

byrst
a bristle. Substitute: e; f., in passage from Lch. read swínen . . . bristle, and add :-- Byrst seta, An. Ox. 51, 1. Brysti setes, Txts. 109, 1132. Manu, brystae (biriste, Hpt. 33, 244, 5) juba, setes porci et leonis cabalique, 110, 1182. Hí heora flán him on áfæstnodon swá þicce swylce íles byrsta, Hml. S. 5, 428: 32, 118. Hé wæs ðára strǽla swá full swá igl biþ byrsta, Shrn. 55, 9. v. feþer-byrst.
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byrst
loss. Add: I. injury :-- Se byrst wyrð gemǽne, Wlfst. 159, 3. Fela byrsta (bersta), 157, 1: 128, 4. II. failure, v. teám-byrst; cf. berstan, I. 2. III. a cash; cf. berstan, II :-- Byrstum creporibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 83. [v. N. E. D. burst. O. H. Ger. brust.]
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-byrst
, -byrste -bristled, v. fiþer-byrst, fiþer-byrste, ge-byrst, ge-byrst.
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