ge-[sceap], st. n.: 1) shape, creature: nom. pl. scadu-helma ge-sceapu, [651].—2) fate, providence: acc. sg. heáh ge-sceap (heavy fate), [3085].
[sceapan, sceppan, scyppan], st. v., to shape, create, order, arrange, establish: pres. part. scyppend (the Creator), [106]; pret. sg. scôp him Heort naman (shaped, gave, it the name Heorot), [78]; pres. part. wäs sió wrôht scepen heard wið Hûgas, syððan Hygelâc cwom (the contest with the Hûgas became sharp after H. had come), [2915].
ge-sceapan, to shape, create: pret. sg. lîf ge-sceôp cynna gehwylcum, [97].
[scear], st. m., massacre: in comp. gûð-, inwit-scear, [2429], etc.
[scearp], adj., sharp, able, brave: nom. sg. scearp scyld-wîga, [288].—Comp.: beadu-, heaðo-scearp.
[scearu], st. f., division, body, troop: in comp. folc-scearu; that is decided or determined, in gûð-scearu (overthrow?), [1214].
[sceat], st. m., money; also unit of value in appraising (cf. Rieger in Zacher's Zeits. 3, 415): acc. pl. sceattas, [1687]. When numbers are given, sceat appears to be left out, cf. [2196], [2995] (see þûsend).—Comp. gif-sceat.
[sceát], st. m., region, field: acc. pl. gefrätwade foldan sceátas leomum and leáfum, [96];—top, surface, part: gen. pl. eorðan sceáta, [753].
[sceáwere], st. m., observer, spy: nom. pl. sceáweras, [253].
[sceáwian], w. v. w. acc., to see, look at, observe: inf. sceáwian, [841], [1414], [2403], [2745], [3009], [3033]; sceáwigan, [1392]; pres. sg. II. þät ge genôge neán sceáwiað beágas and brâd gold, [3105]; subj. pres. þät ic ... sceáwige swegle searo-gimmas, [2749]; pret. sg. sceáwode, [1688], [2286], [2794]; sg. for pl., [844]; pret. pl. sceáwedon, [132], [204], [984], [1441].