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bóc-stæf

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Bócstæf hoc gramma, An. Ox. 18 b, 45. Ne cúþe hé nǽnige bócstafas (nequaquam litteras noverat), ac swáþeáh hé gebohte him sylfum þá béc þæs hálgan gewrites, and bæd ꝥ man rǽdde þá béc beforan him. Gr. D. 281, 22. Add:

bóc-stigel

Similar entry: stigel

bóc-sumness

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Dele

bóc-treów

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Bóctreów fagus, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 29, 17. Add

bile

(n.)
Grammar
bile, m.
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His breóst and his bile beorht syndon ... is se bile hwít, E. S. viii. 477, 29, 34. Bile rostro, An. Ox. 2410. Twégen hremmas his hús tǽron mid heardum bile, Hml. Th. ii. 144, 21. Fugelas on heora blódigon bilon ðǽra martyra flǽsc bǽron, Hml. S. 23, 80

bile-wit

(v.)
Grammar
bile-wit, -wite, -witt, -witte, -wet, -hwit.

plausible

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Add: generally in a good sense Biluit mansuetus, Mt. L. 21, 5. Bilwit simplex, Lk. L. 11, 34. Bilewite mitis, Ps. Spl. 85, 4. Bilwite (bylehwit later MS.), Mt. 11, 29. Iacob wæs bilewitte (simplex) man, Gen. 25, 27. Basilius se bylewitta (-wyta, v. l

-bíme

(suffix)

Similar entry: án-bíme

-bind

(suffix)

Similar entry: ge-bind

birc-holt

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Byrcholt betule(t)um, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 66. Add

ber-land

(n.)
Grammar
ber-land, bere-land, es; n.

bear-land

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Land where barley grows, bear-land (D. D. ) On berlandes heáfda, C. D. iii. 367, 9

ber-land

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brid

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Brid pullus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 118, 45. Cicen oððe brid, i. 77, 37. Brid swalwan pullus hirundinis, Ps. Srt. ii. p. 185, I. Fugla briddas, gif hié ǽr wilniað tó fleóganne ǽr hira feðra fulweaxene sín, Past. 383, 29. Sellan wel meltende mettas, culfrena briddas

brim

(n.)
Grammar
brim, es; n. (not m.),
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Monnum bið ðonne (in June) gewunelic ðæt hí líðað on sǽs bryme, Shrn. 88, 2. Ofer sǽs brim, Bl. H. 143, 6. dele passages from An. 496, Edw. 12, and add

brýd-bed

Grammar
brýd-bed, brýd-bedd, nuptial bed.
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Wearð ꝥ brýdbed mid brǽðe áfylled, Hml. S. 4, 32. His brýdbedd, 7, 43. Brúcan his dohtor árleásan brídbeddes, Ap. Th. 3, 7. On eówrum brýdbedde, Hml. S. 4, 19. Swá swá brýdguma of his brýdbedde, Hml. Th. i. 200, 21: ii. 10, 26: Hml. A. 27, 82. Add

cin-bán

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Add: jaw-bone, jaw Án geswel weóx on hire swuran under þám cinbáne (cynn-, v. l.) (sub maxilla, Bd. 4, 19), Hml. S. 20, 52. Cinbán maxillae, Wrt. Voc. i. 64, 45: mandibulas, ii. 77, 42: 86, 76: 56, 26: Hpt. Gl. 520, 73. Þǽra cinbán þú scealt mid brídle

cneóres-bóc

(n.)
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a book of genealogy Cneórisbóca ge(ne)seos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 51

dóm-bóc

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Ic gedó ꝥ man sceall þé wel fæste gewríðan, and þé, eall swá seó dómbóc be swilcum mannum tǽcð, oft and gelóme swingan, Hml. S. 23, 714. Add

elpend-bán

(n.)
Grammar
elpend-bán, es; n.

ivory

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An elephant's tusk, ivory Elpendbaan, elpendesbán ebor; Txts. 59, 713. Elpanbán oððe elpend (= elpendbán?; but cf. O. H. Ger. elafant ebor; elefant-ín, -isc eburneus) ebor, Wrt. Voc. ii. 28, 73. Úton his brýdbúras wǽron elpendbánum geworhte, Nar. 5,

fór-bed

(n.)
Grammar
fór-bed, fór-bedd, es; n.

A litter

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A litter: -Fórbed (-bæd, v.l.) badanola (lectus in itinere, lectus itineralis: cf. banadola lectus quo in itinere fertur, Gl. Isidor), Hpt. 31, 6, 80

fór-bóc

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Siþbóc, fór-bóc ilinerarium, i. librutn quem in itinere habebat, An. Ox. 2023. Substitute