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tusc

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
tusc, tux, es: a wk. pl. tuxan occurs; m. A canine tooth or
Wright's OE grammar
§113;
a molar tooth, a tusk
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  • Tusc

    genuino (-um ),

      Txts. 67, 961.

  • Tux

    caninus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 81.

  • Monnes tux bið .xv. sciłł. weorð

    the compensation to be paid for knocking out a man's canine tooth is xv shillings,

      L. Alf. pol. 49; Th. i. 94, 12.
  • Cf. L. Ethb. 51; Th. i. 16.

  • Hundes tux,

      Lchdm. i. 370, 29.

  • Se flǽsctóþ wiþæftan ðone tux

    gigra,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 42, 9.

  • Mannes tuxas canini vel

    colomelli,

    i.
      43, 31.

  • Tuxas

    canini,

    ii.
      16, 50: 128, 21: Lchdm. iii. 202, 19.
  • Wið tóþwræce, hundes tuxas, i. 370, 26.

  • Tuscum genuinis, cweorntóðum

    molaribus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 76, 39.

  • Tuxum, 40, 44, Mid tuxum

    ingenuis ( = in genuinis? ),

      48, 50.

  • Grindetóþum, tuxum

    molaribus (but see 76, 39 ante ),

      54, 46.

  • Tuxum

    ginguinis ł ginguinibus

    (the passage is: Ursorum gingivis carperentur),
      Hpt. Gl. 492, 1.

  • Tuxum

    dentibus (porcorum ),

      507, 52.

  • Heora (

    the evil spirits'

    ) tóþas wǽron gelíce horses twuxan,
      Guthl. 5; Gdwin. 34, 24.

  • Hý habbaþ eoferes tucxas

    habentes aprorum dentes,

      Nar. 34, 32.

  • Tuxan ðara leóna

    molas leonum,

      Ps. Lamb. 57, 7.
Etymology
[O. Frs. tusk.]
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v. hilde-tusc, and next word.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tusc.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/31183.

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