Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

healdan

(v.)
Grammar
healdan, haldan; p. heóld; pp. healden.

to HOLD, keep, grasp, retain, restrain, confine, containto hold, have, possess, occupy, inhabitto rule, governto behave, conductto guard, defend, keep, preserve, protect, maintain, sustain, regard, observe, take heedto hold out, last, hold on, continue, hold withto hold, keep, keep sheepservare, custodire

Entry preview:

Homl. 13, 1. Heó hit heóld ǽr tó fæste wið hine she had before dealt too hardly with him, Chr. 1043; Erl. 168, 10. Gif hine heólde swá swá sceolde if he conducted himself as he ought, L. R. 7; Th. i. 192, 15.

cynd

(n.)
Entry preview:

.: es; n. nature Nis nán gesceaft ðe tiohhige ꝥ hió scyle winnan wiþ hire Scippendes willan, gif hió hire cynd (gecynd v. l.) healdan wile nihil est quod naturam servans Deo contraire conetur, Bt. 35, 4; F. 160, 23.

swerian

(v.)
Grammar
swerian, <b>. II.</b>
Entry preview:

</b> add :-- him áþas swór, þæt him gearo wǽre, Chr. 874; P. 72, 30. him áþas swóron on þám hálgan beáge þæt hié of his ríce fóren, 876; P. 74, 9

á-stífian

(v.)

to become incapable of motionto become incapable of action from fear, wonder

Entry preview:

Voc. ii. 63, 62, 65. lit. to become incapable of motion ástífode and se earm stód ungebígendlic, Gr. D. 254, 36. Heora handa ástífedon, Hml. Th. i. 598, 11. Þá múlas ástífodon, Hml. S. 31, 985. ástífod lǽge, Bl. H. 193, 8.

earm-cearig

(adj.)
Grammar
earm-cearig, adj.

Miserable and sadmĭser et tristis

Entry preview:

Miserable and sad; mĭser et tristis ic, earm-cearig, íscealdne sǽ, winter wunade how I passed a winter, miserable and sad, on the ice-cold sea, Exon. 81 b; Th. 306, 27; Seef. 14: 76 b; Th. 287, 26; Wand. 20

eówian

(v.)
Grammar
eówian, p. ode; pp. od

To shewostendĕre

Entry preview:

To shew ; ostendĕre Hi eówodon me ða wunde monstrāvērunt mihi vulnus, Bd. 4, 19; S. 589, 17. Ðá hét he his tungan forþdón of his múþe, and him eówian linguam prōferre ex ōre, ac sĭbi ostendĕre jussit, Bd. 5, 2; S. 615, 6

Linked entry: iówian

for-scapung

(n.)
Grammar
for-scapung, -sceapung, e; f.

A bad actionfaultcrimeperversa actioscĕlus

Entry preview:

A bad action, fault, crime; perversa actio, scĕlus sǽdon ðæt hió ware for Fetontis forscapunge they said that it was for the fault of Phaëton, Ors. 1. 7; Bos. 30, 35. On mislícre forsceapunge by various misdeeds, 1, 11; Bos. 35, 2

ungemet-hleahtor

(n.)
Grammar
ungemet-hleahtor, es; m.

Immoderate laughter

Entry preview:

Immoderate laughter micele má wénestú ðæt mid yrre ða út áweorpe of his temple, ðe mid unnyttum gesprǽcum and mid ungemethleahtrum ða stówa, ðe tó Godes þeówdóme gehálgode wǽron, fýlaþ and besmýtaþ, L. E. I. 10; Th. ii. 408, 32

cild-geogoþ

(n.)
Grammar
cild-geogoþ, e; f.
Entry preview:

Swá ǽr behét on his cildgeogoðe, Lch. iii. 438, 10. Sprǽcon embe heora cildgeogoðe, Hml. S. 30, 320. 374

Linked entries: cild-hád cild-ildu

eorþ-hús

Entry preview:

Se cásere hét hine gelǽdan intó ánum eorðhúse, and hét áne strange leó lǽtan in tó him, Hml. S. 30, 415. [He hehte hine makian an eorðhus . . . wes Astrild i þissen eorðhuse þat na mon heo þer nuste, Laym. 2360, 2381.] Add

hrenian

(v.)
Entry preview:

Lye' substitute: to smell of something Ǽfæst nǽfre wín hrenige, ꝥ ná gehýre þæt þeódwitan: 'Ꝥ nys coss rǽccean ac scencan' religiosus nunquam uinum redoleat, ne audiat illud philosophi: 'Hoc non est osculum porrigere, sed propinare,' Scint. 106, 5

weornian

(v.)
Entry preview:

Rómeburuh byð geswenced ꝥ heó weornað and brosnað in hire sylfre Roma fatigata in semetipsa marcescet, Gr. D. 134, 2. Eall weornige swá sýre (syer, MS.) wudu weornie, Lch. i. 384, 13.

manigfeald-ness

Entry preview:

micel monigfealdnes (multitudo) swétnesse þínre, Ps. L. 30, 20. Þeáh mid þǽre mænigfealdnysse þǽre synne bysgunge ábysgod sig licet multiplicitate negotii peccati suspensus sit, Ll. Th. ii. 176, 8.

full-gán

Entry preview:

Þæt hié his giongorscipe fulgán (fyligan, MS.) wolden, Gen. 249. to give effect to, carry out Sé þe ne hwyrfð his mód æfter ídlum geþóhtum, and him mid weorcum fulgǽð, þeáh him on mód cumen, Ps.

on-gitan

Entry preview:

ongæt (oncneów, v. l.) þæt heó wæs gehǽled in þá ylcan tíde ea hora saluti restitutam virginem agnovit, Gr. D. 29, 29.

libban

Entry preview:

Ðá gelǽredan ðe swá nylhð libban swá hié on bócum leornedon . . . hié on óðre wísan libbað, on ððre lǽrað, 29, 18-25. Hié on-'wóh libbað, 109, 21. wel libbe, 193, 22. Wille ic ꝥ pound; þá Godes þeówas. . . libban clǽnan lífe, Ll.

crístnian

(v.)
Entry preview:

cf. crístnung, Þá hǽþenan feóllon tó his cneówum biddende hine ꝥ dyde crístene. ne wandode on þám wídgillan felda þá hǽþenan tó cristnigenne . . . ac ealle sóna samtingas gecrístnode, Hml. S. 31, 1036

Linked entries: crístian crístnere

inca

(n.)
Grammar
inca, an; m.

Doubtquestionoffenceill-willfear

Entry preview:

Ðá frægn hwæðer ealle smylte mód and bútan eallum incan blíðe tó him hæfdon.

wítnian

(v.)
Grammar
wítnian, p. ode

To punishtormentplague

Entry preview:

Ðý læs hit him sié wítnod lest it be punished in him, Past. 9; Swt. 59, 17

ǽrende

(adj.)

a messagean errand, a mission

Entry preview:

Æfter hit áboden hǽfde, hié heálsade ðæt hié nánuht ðára ǽrenda ne underfénge . . . Ásǽdon his geféran heora ǽrenda ábeád, Ors. 4, 6; S. 178, 10-22. Earmra manna ǽrende wrecan (ǽrendo ábeódan, v. l.), Bd. 3, 6; Sch. 209, 20.

Linked entry: ǽrend