fyrst
a threshold
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Dele, and see first
geafle
a fork
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Dele, and see geafel a fork
bisenian
model
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to set or give an example of something (acc. or clause) to a person (dat.) Gif hé wel lǽrð and yfele mid weorce bysenað, R. Ben. 11, 19.
seonu-wealt
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Se móna went his hrigc tó ðære sunnan, ðæt is, se sinewealta ende ðe ðǽr onlýht biþ, Lchdm. iii. 242, 14. Ðæs sinewealtan hringes teretes(-is ?) cycli, Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 60.
Linked entries: sine-wealt sino-walt sin-wealt syne-wealt
byrst
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A bristle; seta Byrst seta, Wrt. Voc. 286, 57: Glos. Epnl. Recd. 162, 49. Hyre twigu beóþ swylce swínene [MS. swinen] byrst its twigs are like swine bristles, Herb. 52, 2; Lchdm. i. 156, 3
gleow-stól
A glee-stool ⬩ seat of joy ⬩ lætitiæ sedes ⬩ sella
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A glee-stool, seat of joy; lætitiæ sedes vel sella Ðone gleowstól [MS. gleáw- prudens, gnarus] bróðor mín ágnade my brother possessed the seat of joy, Exon. 130 a; Th. 499, 1; Rä. 88, 9
a-wyrgian
To curse ⬩ execrate ⬩ malign ⬩ execrari ⬩ maledicere ⬩ malignari ⬩ execrable ⬩ wicked ⬩ detestable ⬩ execrabilis ⬩ maledictus ⬩ malignus ⬩ malignans
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Seó gegaderung ðara awyrgdra consilium malignantium, 21, 14. The devil is called Se awyrgda the accursed, Cd. 220; Th. 284, 3; Sat. 316. Se awyrgeda gást the accursed spirit, Guthl. 7 ; Gdwin. 44, 12.
hand-gewrit
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Cóm se deófol . . . þá cwæð se hálga wer, ' Wé clypiað tó ðám Hǽlende . . . oð ꝥ þú ꝥ handgewryt ágife'. . . Æfter fyrste feól ꝥ ylce gewryt of þǽre lyfte . . . Se biscop áxode one cnapan gif hé oncneówe ꝥ gewryt.
fore-þingung
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Seó ceaster wearð áhred þurh Agathen foreþingunge, Hml. S. 8, 234. Seó burh hæfð Agathen miccle foreþingunga, 9, 135. Add
hwettan
To WHET ⬩ sharpen ⬩ instigate ⬩ urge ⬩ incite ⬩ excite
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Se lǽce his seax hwæt the physician sharpens his knife, Past. 26, 3; Swt. 187, 5. Úsic lust hwætep desire urges us, Andr. Kmbl. 571; An. 286. Ðurh ðæt his mód hweteþ by that means excites his mind, Salm.
hlæder
a ladder ⬩ flight of steps ⬩ stairs
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a ladder, set of moveable steps (lit. or fig.) Seó hlǽdder (hlǽddra, R. Ben. I. 28, 7) (scala) tácnað úre líf ... þǽre hlǽdre sídan tácniað líchoman and sáule; on ðǽm twám sídum missenlice stæpas eáðmódnesse sió gelaðung gefæstnode, R.
ymb-standan
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Hí bióþ úton ymbstandene (printed -standende, but see útan ymbestandne, Met. 25, 7) mid miclon geférscipe hiora þegna septos tristibus armis Bt. 37, 1; Fox 186, 4
hræfn
A crab
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A crab Se hrefn ðe sume menn hátaþ crabba the 'hrefn' that some people call a crab, Shrn. 162, 21. Hrefnes geallan and leaxes a crab's gall and a salmon's, L. M. 3, 2; Lchdm. ii. 308, 6, see note. Hræfnes geallan, Lchdm. iii. 2, 21.
un-gelícness
Difference ⬩ dissimilarity ⬩ diversity
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Hwæt ðonne ða ungelícnesse ðe of hiera unðeáwum forðcymeþ, se godcunda dóm geðencð omnes homines natura aequales genuit, sed variante meritorum ordine alios aliis culpa postponit.
egle
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Sé ðe eów hrepað, hit mé bið swá egle swylce hé hreppe ðá seó mínes eágan, Hml. Th. i. 390, 15: 516, 22. Ne mæg þé ǽnig yfel egle weorðan non accedent ad te mala, Ps. Th. 90, 10: Rún. 29.
ge-hirdan
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Gesmyrede and gehyrde lita (cf. átre gemǽled lita (veneno spicula), 96, 69, and see áhyrded, B. 1460), Wrt.
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stóc-líf
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Se ðe égðer wilt ge ðissa lǽnena stóclífe ge ðara écena háma, 164, 9. Cf. cot-, mynster-líf for words in which líf is similarly used ; and see stóc
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snód
A snood, fillet, head-dress
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Ðá wénde heó ðæt se hring tóburste, oððe seó snód tóslupe, ac ðá ðá heó áfunde . . . ða snóde mid eallum cnottum fæste gewriðen . . . Homl. Th. ii. 28, 16-26. Snóda vittarum Hpt. Gl. 526, 57. Wæs ðæm deóre se hrycg ácæglod swelce snóda (snide?)
be-smiþian
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Nim þás næglas and heó besmiþian hát on þínes sunu brídle take these nails and order them to be set in thy son's bridle (cf. þú þás næglas hát . . . on his brídels dón, El. 1175. The Emperour dyde doo sette the nayles in his brydel, H.
græf
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Synd gesealde from þám abbode ealle neádbehéfe þing, þæt is ... seax, græf ( gravium ) ... weaxbreda, R. Ben. 92, 3: 56, 20.