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ord-fruma

(n.)
Grammar
ord-fruma, an; m.

source, originauthor, source,applied to the Deitychief, head, prince

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Ðonne beóþ ða synfullan genyðerade mid heora ordfruman, swá hé genyðerad wearþ, Blickl. Homl. 33, 1

up-áhafenness

(n.)
Grammar
up-áhafenness, e; f.

Upliftingelevationexaltationexultationarrogancepride

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Skt. ii. 23 b, 399. metaphorical, exaltation Drihten ys mín upáhafenys Dominus exaltatio mea, Ex. 17, 15.

gold

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mid nánum þingum ne gebicge, ne mid golde ne mid seolfre, 380, 12

on-bryrdness

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Mid andbryrdnysse (compunctione) synna andettan, Ll. Th. ii. 174, 1. Mid wópe and onbryrdnysse þancunge dón, Hml. S. 30, 382. Mid onbryrdnysse and behreówsunge hine gebiddan, Hml. Th. 430. 5

ságol

(n.)
Grammar
ságol, es; m.

A staff, cudgel, club

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Hét ða cwelleras mid stearcum ságlum hine beóton, Homl. Th. i. 424, 32. Mid stíðum ságlum beátaþ, 432, 12: 468, 33. Hét his cwelleras ðone hálgan beátan mid heardum ságlum. Ðá bærst sum ságol intó ánes beáteres eágan, Homl. Skt. i. 4, 142.

þearfedness

(n.)
Grammar
þearfedness, e; f.
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Mid ðearfednesse ge mid heora ungelǽrednesse paupertate ac rusticitate sua, Bd. 4, 27; S. 604, 28. In ðearfednisse in paupertate, Ps. Surt. 30, 11

un-gesceád

(n.)
Grammar
un-gesceád, es; n.

Indiscretionunreason

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Indiscretion, unreason Ða ðe on ðám sylfum cildum mid ungesceáde gehátheortaþ qui in ipsis infantibus sine discretione exarserit, R. Ben. 130, 7. Hé on ánum dæge mid ungesceáde forspilð þreóra daga andlifene, Homl. Ass. 145, 30: Lchdm. iii. 442, 32

Linked entry: ge-sceád

ge-bild

Grammar
ge-bild, boldness.
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Take here ge-byld in Dict. and add Uton mid gebylde búgan tó fulluhte, Hml. S. 3, 52. Cwæð Cecilia mid gebylde, 34, 137: Hml. Th. ii. 508, 29. Ic ðás bóc áwende; ná þurh gebylde mycelre láre, i. 2, 19

ge-dyngan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-dyngan, to dung, manure.
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Substitute Seó eá þæt land middeweard oferfleów mid fótes þicce flóde, and hit þonne mid Sim gedynged wearð fluvius per plana diffusus augmentis ubertatis inpendebalur, Ors. l, 3 ; S. 32, 7. Gedyngde æceras ceratos agros, Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 22

ge-weaxness

(n.)
Grammar
ge-weaxness, e; f.
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Increase; interest on money, usury Se sláwa þeów þone onfangenan talent from his hláforde bútan geweaxnysse (cf. mid þám gafole cum usura, Mt. 25, 27; mid gestreóne cum usuris, Lk. 19, 23) áhýdde on eorþan, Hml. S. 23 b, 15

Linked entry: weaxness

mete-láf

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Add:: — For hwí ne mót se ðearfa onfón þínes metes, þe mid ðé is tó onfónne heofona ríce ? . . . Hwí nis sé wyrþe ꝥ hé onfó þínra meteláfe, þe mid þé is tó cumenne tó engla gebeótscipe?, Hml. A. 142, 102-107

sǽ-scill

(n.)
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a sea-shell Hé wæs nacod and on carcern onsænded, and þǽr wæs understregd mid sǽscellum and mid scearpum stánum (cf. mittitur in carcerem ubi . . . fragmenta testarum subter eum sternebantur, Bede's Life of Felix), Shrn. 51, 13

stær-blind

(adj.)
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Arrianus wearð slagen mid sæmnedlicre blindnesse, swá ꝥ hé eallunga stærblind wæs gelǽded mid fræmdum handum Arrianus subita caecitate percussus est, atque alienis manibus ad suum habitaculum reductus, Gr. D. 235, 3.

ende-dæg

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Hwelcne endedæg mín módor oþðe mín geswuster gebídan scoldon quem exitum mater mea sororesque mee habituri sint, Nar. 31, 19.

ród

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. . hé gebletsode þæs holes múð mid þǽre hálgan róde tácne, Gr.

óra

(n.)
Grammar
óra, an; m.

A species of money introduced by the Danes

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Icel. eyrir, the eighth part of a mark) þolie twelf órena mid Denum and .xxx. sciłł. mid Englum, L. E. G. 7; Th. i. 170, 16. Béte man ðæt æt deádum menn mid .vi. healfmarce, and æt cwicon mid .xii. óran, L. Eth. iii. 1 ; Th. i. 292, 11.

ort-geard

(n.)
Grammar
ort-geard, es; m.

An orchard, garden

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Beóþ hyra orcerdas mid æpplum áfyllede, Lchdm. iii. 252, 22. Seó eorþe stód mid holtum ágrówen . . . mid æppelbǽrum treówum and mid orcgeardum, Hexam. 6; Norm. 12, 6

Linked entries: orc-eard ord-ceard

cearung

(n.)
Grammar
cearung, e; f. [cearu care]

Pensiveness, anguish of mind, a complaintsollicitudo, Som. Ben. Lye.

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Pensiveness, anguish of mind, a complaint; sollicitudo, Som. Ben. Lye

pumic

(n.)
Grammar
pumic, es; m.
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Pumice Of felle áscafen mid pumice, Lchdm. ii. 100, 15

glitenung

(n.)
Grammar
glitenung, e; f.

A flashgleam

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A flash, gleam Mid glitenungum coruscationem, Ps. Spl. 143, 8