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full-sleán

(v.)
Grammar
full-sleán, to effect the death of a person,
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kill outright Gif Petrus móste þone man fulsleán, þonne ne héte hine Críst ná geswícan þæs weorces, Ll. Th. ii. 386, 30

smeoru

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Gyf þú buteran habban wylle oððe smeoru, þonne stríc þú mid þrím fingrum on þíne innewearde hand, Tech. ii. 123, 22. Add

swæþer

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add: Sé dyde þonne swaþer hé dorste . . . swá (vel) hé hit ágnode, swá (vel) hé hit týmde, Ll. Th. i. 160, 7

efen-sárgung

(n.)
Grammar
efen-sárgung, e; f.
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Compassion Þá heó þis gehýrde, heó wénde ꝥ hit má wǽre bysmrung þonne efensárgung quod audiens irrisionem potius credidit quam compassionem, Gr. D. 180, 8

Linked entry: sárgung

crístnian

(v.)
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Þonne se sácerd crístnað, þonne orðaþ hé on þone man . . . and mid þæs sácerdes hálsunge se deófol wyrð áflýmed fram þǽre menniscan gesceafte . . . þæt sealt þæt se sácerd þám men on múð déþ þonne hé crístnað, þæt getácnað godcundne wísdóm . . . and ðonne

Linked entries: crístian crístnere

á-melcan

(v.)
Grammar
á-melcan, pp. -molcen
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To milk Nim gáte meoluc, þonne hió furþum ámolcen sié, Lch. ii. 188, 12. Níwan ámolcene, 202, 16. [O. H. Ger. ar-melchan.]

heáh-clif

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Add: — Swá bið eác gelíce be þám heáclifum þonne hí hlifiað feor úp ofer þá óðre eorðan, Wlfst. 262, 10. Cf. heáh-torr

leásettan

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Þonne hý sume mid geficum wið þone ánne þeódað and leásettað, sume wið þone óþerne dum adulantur partibus R. Ben. 125, 2. Add

mearh

(n.)
Grammar
mearh, a horse.
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Mera mengeo on onsióne máran . . . þonne ðá elpendas maiores elephantorum corporibus hypopotami, Nar. 11, 1. Add

stillan

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Add Ðonne sceal him mon sellan hát wæter drincan; þonne stilð (ꝥ) ꝥ gesceorf innan and clǽsnað þá wambe, Lch. ii. 240, 23

wæl-grim

Grammar
wæl-grim, wæl-grimm.
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Dá earman men beóð wyrs bereáfode fram þám unrihtwísan déman þonne fram þám wælgrimmestan here ( a cruentis hostibus ), Ll. Lbmn. 475, 17. Add

wil-þegu

(n.)
Grammar
wil-þegu, e; f.

A grateful repast

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A grateful repast Tólýsan líc and sáwle, and þonne tódǽlan werum tó wiste and tó wilþege fǽges flǽschoman, Andr. Kmbl. 306; An. 153

á-wrǽnan

(v.)

to make wrǽne

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Gif mon sié tó unwrǽne, wyl on meolce þá ilcan wyrt, þonne áwrǽnst þú, Lch. ii. 144, 21

Linked entry: wrǽnan

eástane

(adv.)
Grammar
eástane, (-ene); adv.
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Þonne hé eft wǽre eástane (-ene, v. l. ) hámweard, 6, 31; S. 286, 10. marking direction of measurement, v. eástan, Þá beorgas onginnað ǽrest eástane of þǽm gársecge and þonne licgað west*-*ryhte, 1, 1; S. 14, 8.

á-hopian

(v.)
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to trust in (tó) Þonne se móna wexeþ, hé bið gelíc þǽm gódum men þe áhopað (á hopað?) tó þǽm écean leóhte, Bl. H. 17, 23

Linked entry: hopian

for-nǽman

(v.)
Grammar
for-nǽman, p. de

To consume

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To consume Þonne heó byð mid langre nearonesse þǽre gnornunge forht and geswænced and fornǽmed cum longa moeroris anxietudine fuerit formido consumta, Gr. D. 245, 3

stroccian

(v.)
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to stroke Gyf þé meolce lyste, þonne strocca (stráca?) þú þínne wynstran finger mid þínre swýþran handa þám gelíce swylce þú melce. Tech. ii. 123, 24

feald

Grammar
feald, (?)
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þonne on áre stówe, Lch. iii. 438, 22

for-néþan

(v.)
Grammar
for-néþan, p. de (reflex.)
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To risk one's life Him leófre wæs þæt hié hié seolfe fornéðdon þonne hié þá iermþo leng þrowedon, Ors. 5, 3; S. 222, 1

ge-þunrian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-þunrian, p. ode
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To thunder Gif on Frígedæg geþunrað, þonne getácnað ꝥ nýtena cwealm. Gif on Sæternesdæg geðunrað, ꝥ tácnað démena cwealm, Archiv cxx. 46, 9-11

Linked entry: þunrian