† tudder, tuder Obs.
[OE. t{uacu}ddor, t{uacu}dor neut.; of uncertain origin. Cf. tidder v.1]
Progeny, offspring.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xv. 97 Ðonne mæᵹ he cennan mid ðam ðæt tuder ryhtes ᵹeðohtes. a 1000 Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 238/5 Foetus, i. fructus, partus, filius, tudder, soboles. c 1000 ælfric Saints' Lives xxxiii. 314 He þa..feoll and cwæð Eufrosina cristes bryd and haliᵹra manna tuddor ne beo þu forgitende þinra efenþeowa. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 166 Sona hyt þæt tuddur ut asendeþ. c 1050 Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 467/24 Propago, tudor oððe cyn. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Deor and fishshes and fuȝeles and here tuder. |