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metend

  • noun [ masculine ]
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metend, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§601;
One who measures or metes
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  • Him leán ágeaf metend (

    God

    ),
    • Cd. 86
    • ;
    • Th. 108, 21
    • ;
    • Gen. 1809.
  • Middangeardes metend

    ex Ormista (the A. S. gloss seems to be intended as a translation of the title commonly given to Orosius' History, [H]Ormesta Mundi, and is the measurer or describer of the world, i. e. a general history of the world),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 18.
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Cf. metod, metten.
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  • metend, n.