(?), an; f. A nurse not living in the house (?), one who received a child into her own house to nurse :-- Ælflǽde offéstran, Cht. Crw. 23, 22. Cf. cild-féstre.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:
Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "of-féstre." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 662.