wǽtan
To wet, moisten
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Wǽt ðæt gewrit on ðam drence, Lchdm. ii. 350, 15. Wǽt wulle mid biccean hlonde. 362, 17. Wǽt ðæt liþ mid ecede, ii. 134, 9. Wǽt mid ðínum scytefingre, Techm. ii. 126, 2. Hí ða lifre wǽten, Lchdm. i. 346, 23.
Linked entry: wǽtian
tó-cnáwenness
Knowledge, ⬩ discernment, ⬩ understanding, ⬩ knowledge which appreciates the difference between things
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Knowledge, discernment, understanding, knowledge which appreciates the difference between things Ne sind hí ðrý Godas . . . ac seó Ðrynnys is án sóð God . . . Ðeós tócnáwennys is éce líf, Homl. Th. ii. 362, 32
Scild
The name of the ancestor of the Danish kings
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His story is given in the opening canto of Beowulf. According to the Ynglinga Saga, c. 5, one of Odin's sons is Skjöldr
Hwít-ern
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Whitherne in Galloway His mynster is æt Hwíterne, Chr. 565; Erl. 19, 7
sal-warp
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The word is a river name, the Salwarpe in Worcestershire
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á-stípness
Bereavement
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Bereavement Ástépnessutn orbitationibus (Aldhelm's Latin is : orbitatis quaestibus), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 61
Linked entries: á-steópness á-stépness á-stépedness
FYLL
a FALL ⬩ ruin ⬩ destruction ⬩ death ⬩ cāsus ⬩ intĕrĭtus ⬩ a FALL ⬩ case ⬩ inflection in grammar ⬩ cāsus ⬩ inflectio
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M. 1, 4; Lchdm. ii. 48, 14, note. a FALL, case, inflection in grammar; cāsus, inflectio Cāsus, ðæt is fyll oððe gebígedniss case, that is a declining or inflection, Ælfc. Gr. 14; Som. 17, 23
nídþearf-ness
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<b>I a.</b> what is unavoidable :-- Neádþear[f]nysse débitum (naturae), An.
norþeást-lang
Long in a north-easterly direction
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Long in a north-easterly direction Brittania is norþeástlang Britannia per longum in boream extenditur, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 24, 12
saban
A sheet
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A sheet On sabanum, id est scéte in sabanis (cf. on scétum in sabanis,48, 47), Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 57
ge-aforud
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In Ps. Spl. 36, 37 exaltatum is glossed by geaforadne, but the correct form, geuferudne, occurs in Ps. Rdr. 36, 35
ge-sundfullíc
Safe ⬩ sound
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Safe, sound Ne biþ ǽfre ówiht gesundfullíces in ðam deófle there is never aught sound in the devil, Shrn. 38, 35
tweó-mann
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A creature about which it is doubtful whether it be human Homodubii hý syndon hátene, ðæt beóþ twímen, Nar. 35, 3
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CLÆMAN
To CLAM, smear, anoint ⬩ linere
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Clæm on ðone cancer smear it on the cancer, L. M. 1, 44; Lchdm. ii. 110, 4: 3, 45; Lchdm. ii. 336, 22. Clæme on ðæt geswel smear it on the swelling, Lchdm. iii. 38, 23
hræding
Hurry ⬩ haste
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Hurry, haste Be ðisum þeófum ðe man on hrædinge fúle geáxian ne mæg and man eft geáxaþ ðe hé fúl biþ concerning the thieves that are not at once found out to be guilty, and afterwards it is found on enquiry that he is guilty, L.
mǽþ
Math in after-math ⬩ mowing ⬩ hay-harvest
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Kmbl. ii. 400, 30
ge-méting
A meeting, an assembly, association, a society ⬩ conventus, conventio, conventĭcŭlum, congrĕgātio
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On gemétingum in congrĕgātiōne, 110, 1. Ne ic ne gederige gemétinga heora non congrĕgābo conventĭcŭla eōrum, Ps. Spl. 15, 4. To gemoetingum conciliis, Mk. Skt. Lind. 13, 9
wyrcend
a worker ⬩ labourer ⬩ a maker ⬩ a doer.
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Similar entries v. efen-, fore-, wín-wyrcend, and wyrcan, I. a maker. Similar entries v. wyrcan, II Ic gelýfe on ǽnne God, wyrcend heofenan and eorðan, Homl. Th. ii. 596, 25. Heó wǽron ðám wyrcendum gelíce similes illis fiant qui faciunt ea, Ps.
hláford-swice
Treachery to a lord, ⬩ treason
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one's lord is to betray his soul, and very great treachery also is it to deprive him of life, or to drive him from the country alive, Swt.
orf
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Th. i. 352, 3-13), and the oaths to be taken by those engaged in a suit concerning stolen cattle were fixed by law. v. Ll. Th. i. 178, 10-180, 16. An instance of cattle-stealing is mentioned in C. D. ii. 134