hélade
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Having large heels Hélade calcanosus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 22, 73. Heálade, 127, 41
Linked entry: heálede
líf-brycgung
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D. life-day] : -lífe. v. lang-lífe : lifen. Add:
rodor-líhtung
The illumination of the heavens ⬩ the dawn
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Lamb. 73, 16
æcer-mǽlum
By acres
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By acres Ðæt land líð hídmǽlum and æcermǽlum, C. D. vi. 98, 5
morþ
death ⬩ destruction ⬩ perdition ⬩ that which causes death ⬩ murder ⬩ slaying with an attempt at concealment of the deed ⬩ murder ⬩ homicide
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See also the last passage under II.
Linked entries: morþ-weorc morþ-wyrhta
under-niman
to take surreptitiously ⬩ to steal ⬩ to take into the mind ⬩ receive what is said, taught ⬩ to take upon one's self ⬩ to blame ⬩ resent
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[Hire fader hefde iset hire to lare and heo undernom (-ueng, MS. R.) hit wel, Kath. 117.] to take upon one's self Gif ðú leornian wille hú ðæt gewurðan mæge, ðonne undernim ðú leorningcnihtes híw, Homl. Th. i. 590, 20.
Linked entry: under-fón
gid
a song ⬩ lay ⬩ poem ⬩ cantus ⬩ cantilena ⬩ carmen ⬩ poema ⬩ A speech ⬩ tale ⬩ sermon ⬩ proverb ⬩ riddle ⬩ sermo ⬩ dictum ⬩ loquela ⬩ proverbium ⬩ ænigma
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Gliówordum gól gyd æt spelle sung in metre a lay in his discourse, Bt. Met. Fox 7, 4; Met. 7, 2. Geríseþ gleómen gied a song is proper for a gleeman, Exon. 91 b; Th. 344, 1; Gn. Ex. 167. Cúþ gyddum known in lays [songs], Beo. Th. 304; B. 151.
ear-gebland
Wave-mingling ⬩ oceăni turbātio, undārum commixtio
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Wave-mingling; oceăni turbātio, undārum commixtio Ofer eargebland [æra gebland, col. 1] land gesóhtan they sought the land over the ocean [lit. the wave-mingling ], Chr. 937; Th. 202, 38, col. 2: Th. 203, 38, col. 1, 2: Bt. Met.
Linked entries: æra gebland ear earh-geblond
týn
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To instruct, educate, teach Ic tý oððe lǽre imbuo, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 3; Zup. 166, 14. Hé lǽrþ and hé týð heorde his docet et erudit gregem suam, Scint. 146, 7. Se wísdóm ðe hit lange ǽr týde and lǽrde, Bt. 3, 1; Fox 4, 30.
rignan
- Cf.
- Piers P. 14, 62.
to rain, to cause rain to fall ⬩ to rain, to fall (of rain)
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Mon geseah weallan blód of eorþan and rínan meolc of heofonum sanguine e terra, lac visum est manare de coelo, Ors. 4, 3; Swt. 162, 7
ge-wépan
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To weep over, lament Hwæt dést þú, lá flǽsc, hwæt dreógest þú nú, hwæt miht þú on þá tíd þearfe gewépan ? quid, caro, quid fades, illa quid flebilis hora?, Dóm. L. 176
leógere
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(cf. that wicked Simon had misinformed, 2 Macc. 3, 11)) Hé sceal leogeras and líceteras hatian, Wlfst. 266, 28. one who makes a false pretence, a hypocrite Lá légere hypocrita, Lk. L. 6, 42. Ðú légere ł gié légeras, Mt. L. 15, 7.
for-geat
forgot ⬩ hast forgotten
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Lamb. 41, 10: Jud. 3, 7;
for-trydst
treadest down
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Lamb. fol. 190 a, 12;
lætemest
Lastly ⬩ at last ⬩ finally
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Lastly, at last, finally Lætemest (lætmest, Lind.) novissime, Mk. Skt. Rush. 16, 14
meox-wilige
A basket for carrying dung
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Lamb. 80, 7
Linked entries: wilige meox-bearwe
rǽd
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in composition of adjectives, v. án-, fæst-, heard-, hwæt-, læt-, wiðer-rǽd[e]
ge-hyspendlíc
Despicable ⬩ abominable
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Lamb. 13, 1
streám-stæþ
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A shore Ofer streámstaðe stæppan to land, Cd. Th. 86, 21; Gen. 1434