cwene f. _woman_, _Rd, W_: _female serf_, _‘quean,’ prostitute_, AO. [_Goth._ kwinō]
cweorn f. _‘quern,’ handmill, mill_, _MtL_; CP.
cweornbill _‘lapidaria,’ a stone chisel for dressing querns_ (BT), WW 438^18.
cweornstān m. _mill-stone_, _Mt_. [‘_quernstone_’]
cweorð _name of the rune for =cw= (=q=)_.
±cweðan^6 _to say, speak, name, call, proclaim, summon, declare_, _Bl, VPs_; Æ, AO, CP: (+) _order, give orders_: ± c. (tō) _agree, settle, resolve_: (+) _consider, regard_, ÆL 1^117. c. on hwone _assign to one_. cwyst ðū lā _sayest thou?_ ‘_numquid_.’ cweðe gē _think you?_ [‘_quethe_’]
cwic [cuc, cucu (this last form is archaic, and has an occasional asm. cucone, cucune)] _‘quick,’ living, alive_, _BH, Bl, Bo, CP, Lcd_; AO.
cwicbēam m. _aspen, juniper_, _Gl, Lcd_. [‘_quick-beam_’]
cwiccliende _moving rapidly_? _tottering_? OEG 2234.
cwice fm. _‘couch’ (‘quitch’)-grass_, _Gl, Lcd_.
cwichrērende _living and moving_, #Creat# 5.
±cwician _to quicken, create_, _JnL_: _come to life, come to one’s self_, _Æ, Lcd_. [‘_quick_’]
cwiclic _living, vital_, DR. adv. -līce _vigorously_.
cwicsūsl nf. _hell torment, punishment, torture_, Æ.
+cwicung f. _restoration to life_, GD 218^17.
cwidbōc f. _Book of Proverbs_, CP: _book of homilies_, MF (Vesp. D xiv).
cwiddian (e, y) _to talk, speak, say, discuss, report_: _make a claim against_, LL 400[3,1].
cwiddung (y) f. _speech, saying, report_, Æ.
cwide (y) m. _speech, saying, word, sentence, phrase, proverb, argument, proposal, discourse, homily_, _Bo_; Æ, CP: _testament, will, enactment, decree, decision, judgment_, _TC_; Æ. [‘_quide_’; cweðan]
cwidegiedd (i) n. _speech, song_, #Wa# 55.
cwidelēas _speechless_, Æ (y): _intestate_, EC 212.
cwielman (æ, e, i, y) _to torment, afflict, mortify, destroy, kill_, _Bl, VPs_; AO, CP. [‘_quelm_’] For compounds v. cwylm-.
cwild (y) mfn. _destruction, death, pestilence, murrain_. [cwelan]
cwildbǣre _deadly, dangerous, pestiferous_. adv. -bǣrlīce.
cwið I. (also cwiða) m. _belly, womb_. [_Goth._ kwiðus] II. pres. 3 sg. of cweðan.
cwudu (eo, i) n. _what is chewed, cud_, Æ: _resin of trees_. hwīt c. _chewing gum, mastic_.
cwyldseten f. _first hours of night_, #Gl#.
cwylla m. _well, spring_, KC 2·265^30. [_Ger._ quelle]
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