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Shrithe

//ʃɹaɪð//

Definitions

1
To move; to proceed; to creep, roam, wander.
He realized the monster meant to attack Heorot after the blue hour, when black night has settled over all— when shadowy shapes come shrithing dark beneath the clouds.

Word Origin

Coined by English writer and translator Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941): a semi-learned borrowing from Old English sċrīþan (“to go; take one's way to a place; go about; wander”), from Proto-West Ge...

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