A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary / For the Use of Students

by J. R. Clark Hall

biswic = [beswic]

[ bit] pres. 3 sg. of [biddan].

[ bīt] pres. 3 sg. of (1) [bīdan]; (2) [bītan].

[ bita] m. I. ‘bit,’ morsel, piece, Jn; Æ.

[II.] biter, wild beast.

[ ±bītan¹] to ‘bite,’ tear, B, Rd; Æ: cut, wound: (+) dash down, MkL 9¹⁸.

[ bite] m. ‘bite,’ sting, AO, Lcd: sword-cut, Ap, B: cancer.

[ bitela] m. ‘beetle,’ Gl.

[ biter] ‘bitter,’ sharp, cutting, Gu; Æ: stinging, PPs 117¹²: exasperated, angry, embittered: painful, disastrous, virulent, cruel, B, Bl. adv. -līce, Mt.

bitere = [bitre]