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screare [CL], to spit out phlegm or saliva. b (w. in & acc.) to spit at or into; c (w. internal acc.). sit tibi sedile tornatile tale paratum / quod valeant in eo residentes retro screare D. Bec. 1055; 1298 ne in lavatoriis ‥ ~are vel a naso spumam excutere ‥ presumant Reg. Cant. 819; nasum purgare nunquam scivitque screare / quo se mundare sic possit seu maculare Hist. Durh. 2; 13‥ spaten, escouper, ~o (MS Bodl. Ashmole 342) Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen X (1992) 176; ~o, A. to spete WW. b an ceca flamina non vident qualiter / cedentes impii pium atrociter / screant in faciem verendam viliter? Walt. Wimb. Carm. 101. c sputa screare, aures purgare Alcuin Didasc. 963B.

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