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ningere

ningere, ninguere [CL] 1 to snow: a (impers.); b (w. nix as subj.). a importunum videtur omnimodis tempore messis ~uere Bede Prov. 1013; ~uit, sniuwið GlC N 117; illuc ibatur, ~ueret, plueret; quecumque porro incommoditas aeris esset W. Malm. Wulfst. III 4; ~it, snawes WW.  b nix etenim ningit, cernite, grando ruit Alcuin Carm. 55. 8. 2. 2 to descend like snow. dent Domino grates mittit qui ad vota piorum / aligeras volucres †mingentque [l. ningentque] ad septa sacelli Æthelwulf Abb. 175. 3 to shine like snow. vivida stat vultu, cui candor ningit in ore / et sanguis vernat, purpura nupta nivi Garl. Epith. VI 197. 4 (trans.) to drop like snow. candidior nivibus, dum ningit vellera nimbus Aldh. Aen. 100 (Creatura) 54.

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