þistel-twige
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þistel-twige
. Add :-- þisæltunga
cardella, Hpt. 33, 241, 51.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "þistel-twige." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 729.
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þistel-twige
, an; f. A goldfinch or some other bird that eats thistle-down. [In E. D. S. Pub. Bird Names, p. 58, thistle-finch is given as a name of the goldfinch; Halliwell quotes: 'Carduelis a linnet, a thistle-finch' (1581). Cf. O. H. Ger. distil-finco carduelis: Ger. distel-fink a linnet: O. H. Ger. distil-ziu carduelus] :-- Þisteltuige, distiltige cardella, Txts. 47, 381. Þisteltwige, Wrt. Voc. i. 281, 19.