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swinsung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
swinsung, e ; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§373;
melody, harmony
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  • Suinsung armonia, Wrt.Voc. ii. 100, 62:

    melodium,

      113, 79.
  • Dreám, swinsunge (-c?)

    armonia,

      3, 29: 90, 61.
  • Swinsung,

      Hpt. Gl. 498, 63.
  • Gedrémere swinsunge

    consona melodia, 519, 6: consona vocis harmonia (modulatione ),

      467, 9.
  • Wensumne swinsunge ł dreám

    melodiam,

      438, 8.
  • Bebudon him gif hé mihte ðæt hé in swinsunge leóþsanges ðæt gehwyrfde

    praecipientes ei, si posset, hunc in modulationem carminis transferre,

      Bd. 4, 24; S. 597, 35.
  • Swinsunga

    melos,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 27.
sound that is not harmonious
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  • Swinsunge sǽs

    sonitus maris,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 21, 25.
  • Wið eárena swinsunge and ungehýrnesse

    for singing in the ears and hardness of hearing,

      Lchdm. iii. 70, 23.
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v.  dreám-swinsung.
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