searu

n (-wes/-) device, design, contrivance, art, work of art, cunning device; 1. in the following glosses it is uncertain whether the word is used with a good or with a bad meaning; 2. in a bad sense, craft, artifice, wile, deceit, stratagem, ambush, treachery, plot, device, trick, snare, ambuscade; mid \searuwe on geweald gedón to arrive at power through treachery [per proditionem tradere]; mid \searuwe ácwellan to kill by ambush [morti tradere]; \searu regnian to lay a snare; swilt þurh \searuwe death by treachery; 3. in a good sense, art, skill, contrivance, (in the adverbial instrumental searwum, skillfully, ingeniously, with art); 3a. cleverness, cunning; 4. that which is contrived with art, a machine, engine, fabric; 4a. armor, equipment, arms, war-gear, trappings; \searuwum gearwe equipped; 4b. engine (of war)