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bútan

(con.)
Grammar
bútan, búton, bútun; conj. [be, útan out] .
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Unless, save that; nisi Bútan ðú [eorþan spéde] gedǽlde Dryhtne sylfum unless thou hadst bestowed [the riches of the earth] for the Lord himself, Exon. 99a; Th. 371, 19; Seel. 78. Búton ðæt hit sý útaworpen nisi ut mittatur foras, Mt. Bos. 5, 13.

búte

(con.)
Grammar
búte, conj.
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Unless, but; nisi, sed Nán þing wyrþe [geweorþe Cot.] búte hit God wille nothing comes to pass unless God wills it, Bt. 41, 2; Fox 244, 18: Bt. Met. Fox 18, 20; Met. 18, 10. Búte ic nát but I know not, Bt. 34, 10; Fox 148, 16.

butere

(n.)
Grammar
butere, an; f. BUTTER; butyrum [= βούτυρον, βοῦς , Boûs a cow,τυρός cheese]
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Voc. 82, 27. Dó ðonne mele fulne buteran add then a basin full of butter, L. M. 1, 36; Lchdm. ii. 86, 17, 19, 22. On ðære buteran in the butter, l, 36; Lchdm. ii. 88, 1.

buter-flége

(n.)
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a butterfly; papilio

búton

(prep.)
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Th. i. 24, 30. Búton synne ánum without any sin, i. 24, 35

butruc

(n.)
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a bottle, Wrt. Voc. 85, 83

butsa-carlas

(n.)
Grammar
butsa-carlas, [bátes carlas, i. e. bát-sǽ carlas]
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Seamen, sailors; nautæ, Chr. 1066; Ing. 259, 4

bútú

(pronoun.)
Grammar
bútú, [bú = bá both, tú = twá two]
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Both; ambo Ðonne beóþ bútú gehealden then both [the two] shall be preserved, Mk. Bos. 2, 22. Ðá bútú abulgon Isaace and Rebeccan then both [the two] were a grief to Isaac and Rebecca, Gen. 26, 35: Lk. Bos. l, 6, 7.

Linked entries: bútá búte

bútun

(con.)
Grammar
bútun, unless, save; nisi, Mt. Bos. 11, 27: 12, 4. v. bútan; conj.

buturuc

(n.)
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a bottle, Gen. 21, 15

búwian

(v.)
Grammar
búwian, p. ode; pp. od
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To inhabit; inhabitare Búwa eorþan inhabita terram, Ps. Th. 36, 3

bý

(n.)
Grammar
bý, es; n?
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A dwelling, habitation; habitatio Se ðe hús oððe lytel [MS. lytelo] bý hæfde in byrgenum [MS. byrgennum] qui domicilium habebat in monumentis, Mk. Skt. Lind. 5, 3. Hence, by and bye in the termination of the names of places

Linked entry: býing

BYCGAN

(v.)
Grammar
BYCGAN, bicgan, bycgean; ic bycge, bicge, ðú bygest, he bygeþ, pl. bycgaþ, bicgaþ; p. bohte, pl. bohton; impert. byge, bige, pl. bycgaþ; pp. boht; v. a.
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To BUY, procure; emere, redimere Hí woldon mete bicgan cibos emerent, Jn. Bos. 4, 8. Ðæt hie bicgan scoldon which they must buy, Beo. Th. 2615; B. 1305: Exon. 120b; Th. 463, 11; Hö. 68. Ðá híg férdon bycgean dum irent emere, Mt. Bos. 25, 10.

Linked entries: bycgean bicgan

bycgean

(v.)
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to buy, procure; emere Híg woldon bycgean they would buy, Mt. Bos. 25, 10

bycgen

(n.)
Grammar
bycgen, bycgenn, e; f.
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A buying, selling; emptio, Som. Ben. Lye

býd

(v.; part.)
Grammar
býd, = beád? commanded, bid, Gen. 50, 5; p.
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of beódan

BYDEN

(n.)
Grammar
BYDEN, bydenn, e; f.
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Bos. ll, 33. a barrel, tun, butt; dolium, cupa Hí mec baðedon in bydene they bathed me in a tub, Exon. 107b; Th. 409, 24; Rä. 28, 6. Byden cupa, Ælfc. Gl. 49; Som. 65, 94; Wrt. Voc. 34, 24

byden-botm

(n.)
Grammar
byden-botm, es; m.
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The bottom of a vessel; fundus, Ælfc. Gl. 25; Som. 60, 49; Wrt. Voc. 24, 49

býe

(n.)
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to a habitation; dat. of bý

byfian

(v.)
Grammar
byfian, p. ode; pp. od
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To tremble; tremere Eorþe ondréd oððe byfode and heó geswác oððe heó wæs stille terra tremuit et quievit, Ps. Lamb. 75, 9

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