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wraþu

  • noun [ feminine ]
  • adverb
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wraþu, e; f.
A prop, stay, support
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  • Wraþe

    fulcimentum, i.

    adminiculum,

      Wülck. Gl. 245, 27.
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  • Se biscop hine onhylde tó ánre ðæra studa ðe útan tó ðære cyrican geseted wæs ðære cyricean tó wraþe

    (pro munimine),

    • Bd. 3, 17
    • ;
    • S. 543, 40.
  • Ðam wáge tó wræþe

    in munimentum parietis,

      S. 544, 24.
  • Tó wealles wraðe.

      Ps. Th. 117, 21.
  • Wraðe

    cimento,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 51.
  • Wraðum

    columpnis,

      21, 70.
figurative, support, assistance
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  • Wérigra wraþu

    (St. Guthlac),

    • Exon. Th. 183, 34
    • ;
    • Gú. 1337.
  • Wísdómes wraðu, and witena frófur,

    • Runic pm. Kmbl. 340, 7
    • ;
    • Rún. 4.
  • Gyfu gumena byð . . . wraðu and weorðscype,

    • 340. 25
    • ;
    • Rún. 7.
  • Ðǽr bið á gearu wraðu wannhálum wíta gehwylces,

    • Eten. Kmbl. 2057
    • ;
    • El. 1030.
  • Wéne ic mé wraðe tó ðé

    ego in te sperabo,

      Ps. Th. 55, 3.
  • Wyrta ðú geworhtest tó wraðe manna

    producens herbam servituti hominum,

      103, 13.
  • Se mé wraþe healdeþ,

    • Exon. Th. 117, 7
    • ;
    • Gú. 220.
  • Ðǽr hí wraðe métaþ,

    • 215, 3
    • ;
    • Ph. 247.
  • Ðæt hý wraþe sécen, frófre tó feóndum,

    • 362, 12
    • ;
    • Wal. 35.
  • Ðǽr dú wraðe findest,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 168
    • ;
    • El. 84.
  • Him Freá ælmihtig fultum tióde, wíf áweahte, and ða wraðe sealde leófum rince,

    • Cd. Th. 11, 13
    • ;
    • Gen. 174.
  • Mæg secgan se ðe wyle sóð sprecan, ðæt se mondryhten, . . . ðonne hé gesealde helm and byrnan healsittendum, . . . gúðgewǽdu, wraðe (armour that ought to have proved of assistance to him; or wraðe; adv. ?) forwurpe,

    • Beo. Th. 5736
    • ;
    • B. 2872.
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v. líf-wraþu; wræþ-studu, wreþian.
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  • wraþu, n.; adv.