A.-S.

American  

abbreviation

1. Anglo-Saxon.

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Example Sentences

Glead is the A.-S. glida or kite, though, in our version of Deut. xiv. 13., both glede and kite are mentioned.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Fellow of Brasenose Coll. and Prof. of A.-S. in the Univ. of Oxf., is announced for early publication by the �lfric Society.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

Hierd and Heerd, from A.-S. hierde, perhaps also Hardewick or Harderwyk from the same.

From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Or is here used in its old sense, meaning before, from A.-S. ær.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

The past participle of the old verb yede, from A.-S. gangead, to go, to proceed.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James