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líc-rest

  • noun [ feminine ]
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líc-rest, e; f.
A place of rest for a dead body, tomb, sepulchre
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  • Hé hæfde ðæt land syððan him sylfon tó lícreste

    he had the land afterwards for his own burial place,

    • Gen. 23, 20
    • .
  • On líchryste

    in cœmeterio,

    • Hpt. Gl. 507, 67
    • .
  • Man slóh án geteld ofer ða hálgan bán binnan ðære lícreste,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 100, 150
    • .
  • Heó hyre lícreste geceás ón élíg byrig

    she chose her burial place in Ely,

    • Lchdm. iii. 430, 17
    • .
Etymology
[
Laym. þu hit scalt leden to ðere lichraste ... þer þine wines liggeþ.
]
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  • líc-rest, n.