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a cloud, an accumulation of vapour.
a cloud in the sky
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  • Wolcnu ł genipu

    nubes,

      Ps. L. 17, 13.

  • Winterbiter weder and wolcna genipu, Az. 105. (1 a) a storm-cloud :-- Gyf strongra storm and genip swíþor þreáde

    si procella fortior aut nimbus perurgeret,

      Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 361, 3.

  • Þá wæs swýðe mycel genip geworden in þám wolcnum, and unmǽte rénas ríndon

    collecto in nubibus aere immensa nimis pluvia erupit,

      Gr. D. 196, 1.
a cloud resting on the earth
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  • Þicce genip (

    nubes densissima

    ) oferwréh þone munt,
      Ex. 19, 16.

  • Mid þýstro genipum þæs muntes cnoll eal oferswógen wæs,

      Bl. H. 203, 8.

  • Mid þeósterlicum genipum oferhongen,

      Hml. Th. i. 504, 30.
darkness, obscurity.
of night; in pl.
shades of night
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  • Þrang þýstre genip, þám þe hé sceóp nihte naman,

      Gen. 139.

  • Dagas forð scridun, nihthelma genipu,

      Gú. 943.
  • Þurh nihta genipu hí neósan cwóman, 321.

  • Ne se móna næfð nánre mihte wiht ꝥ hé þǽre nihte genipu mæge fleógan

    pallida nocturnam nec praestat luna lucernam,

      Dóm. L. 110.

  • Tír á byð on færelde ofer nihta genipu,

      Rún. 17.
  • (1 a) of the darkness to which the sun seems to sink

    Færeð sunne in þæt wonne genip under waetra geþring,

      Sch. 79.
of a place without light
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  • In þissum neowlan genipe (

    Hell

    ),
      Sat. 102.

  • Fyrgenstreám under næssa genipu niðer gewíteð

    the stream plunges into dark depths,

      B. 1360.
fig.
darkness of trouble
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  • Gewítað ðá genipu úre dreórignysse,

      Hml. Th. i. 614, 29.
of dim sight
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  • Wið eágena þýstru and genipe,

      Lch. i. 366, 13.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-nip.” 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/49065.

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