Washington, its derivation (Bosworth, A Dictionary of the Anglo Saxon Language, 1838)

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Sub-type: a word definition/derivation
Relevance: prophecy
Text: "And the serpent [the dragon] cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth." Revelation 12:15,16 "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." Revelation 13:11 ...a planted beast/nation!

TU’N, es ; m. [...]   1. A place fenced round or enclosed; [...]   3. A place of residence, house, dwelling, village, TOWN, a territory lying within the bounds of a town; [...]
Bosworth, Joseph, A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language,
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman; Talboys, Oxford; Stevenson, Cambridge, 1838, p. 401, col. 78y.


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