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beácen
/bea:tʃen /*
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Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
beácen
. Add: an audible signal :-- Sóna swá hí þ̵ beácn (signum) gehýron, Chrd. 32, 26: 34, 4.
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BEÁCEN
, bécen, bécn, bécun; g. beácnes; n. A BEACON, sign, token, standard; signum, significatio, typus, vexillum, portentum, miraculum; in specie de sancta cruce et de sole :-- Leóht eástan com beorht beácen light came from the east a bright beacon, Beo. Th. 1144; B. 570. He beácen onget he perceived the sign, Cd. 198; Th. 246, 33; Dan. 488. Wæs beácen boden the token was announced, Andr. Kmbl. 2403; An. 1203. Beácnes cyme the beacon's [the sun's] coming, Exon. 57b; Th. 205, 4; Ph. 107.
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