Obs. [OE. túddor, túdor neut.; of uncertain origin. Cf. TIDDER v.1] Progeny, offspring.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xv. 97. Ðonne mæʓ he cennan mid ðam ðæt tuder ryhtes ʓeðohtes.

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a. 1000.  Ags. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 238/5. Foetus, i. fructus, partus, filius, tudder, soboles.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxxiii. 314. He þa … feoll and cwæð Eufrosina cristes bryd and haliʓra manna tuddor ne beo þu forgitende þinra efenþeowa.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., I. 166. Sona hyt þæt tuddur ut asendeþ.

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c. 1050.  Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 467/24. Propago, tudor oððe cyn.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 177. Deor and fishshes and fuȝeles and here tuder.

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