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regol-weard

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Add Ðe regluuard, Jn. L. 4, 51

sǽ-weard

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Add: In a charter granting land in Cornwall the land is freed 'ab omni regali censu excepta expeditione arcisue munimine et uigiliis marinis,' Cht. E. 295. See, too, Kemble, Saxons in England, ii. 63

seonu-wealt

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seonu-wealt, [In the gloss at Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 54 perhaps torosa denotes the roundness or plumpness of a muscular object. Could it be a gloss on a passage from Ovid, torosa colla boum?]
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Add Sinewealtre trendla tyrnincge tereti circulorum rotunditate, An. Ox. 522. Add Of sinewealtum þrǽda cliwene ex tereti filorum glomere, An. Ox. 3734. Sinewealte popelstánas rotundas lapillulos, 1813

strǽt-weard

(n.)
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strǽt-weard, e; f.
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Guarding of roads De stretwarde. De qualibet hida in hundredo iiii. homines ad stretwarde invenientur . . . Et guardereve, id est prepositus custodum, habebit .xxx. hidas quietas pro labore suo, Ll. Th. i. 479, 25-29

Linked entry: weard

súþan-weard

(adj.)
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súþan-weard, adj.
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Southern (part of a place) Súþanweard hit hefdon Brittas, Chr. pref.; P. 3, 14

súþe-weard

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Þæt þridde heáfodríce wæs þæt Affricanum, and on súðeweardum. Ors. 2, 1; Bos. 38, 24. Add

tó-weard

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tó-weard, <b>I b.</b>
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Add Þá wǽron Seaxan sécende intingan and tó-weardne (an occasion, and one in the immediate future) heora gedáles wið Bryttas quaerentes occasionem diuortii, Bd. 1. 15; Sch. 42, 26. 1 a a. without inflexion Leoniþa sǽde þæt þá tída þá yfele wǽron and

tó-weard

(prep.)
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tó-weard, prep.
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Add Fram þám littlan fingre tóweard þæs earmes, Vis. Lfc. 85. Add Þá áþenede Benedictus his hand and áwrát Crístes róde táken þǽr tóweard extensa manu Benedictus signum crucis edidit, Gr. D. 105, 4. 3. Add Hig eódon tó Sodoman weard abierunt Sodoman

þider-weard

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Add: where a verb of motion is implied Geseah hé olfendas þyderweard vidit camelos venientes procul, Gen. 24, 63. Ðá þá hé þágíta wæs feorron þyderweard adhuc longe positum, Gr. D. 37, 15

úte-weard

(adj.)
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Adj Útewardre hýde cute summa, superficietenus, extrema. An. Ox. 50, 23

út-weard

(adv.)
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út-weard, ; adv.
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Forth, outside, out of doors Swá hí gedón hæbbon swá beón hí on ofeste útweard ubi perfectum habuerint opus suum cum summa festinatione egrediantur foras, Chrd. 31, 29: 31

weale-spinel

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Of wolcspinle calamistro, An. Ox. 26, 70-v. ge-wealcian. Add

wealh-basu

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Wealhbasu ł mædre uermiculo. An. Ox. 35, 4. Add

weall-geweorc

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Wealgewuorc, C. D. iv. 51, 19. Cf. muri fabrica, 50, 13. Add

weard-geréfa

(n.)
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weard-geréfa, an; m.
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The captain of the guard

wéngeard-wealh

(n.)
Grammar
wéngeard-wealh, a labourer in a vineyard: — Wéneardwealas
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vinatores, Chrd. 68, 2

wiþer-weard

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wiþer-weard, <b>. II.</b>
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Hié wurdon him selfum wiðerwearde þęt hié hit ǽfre ongunnon, and Scribanianus ofslógon they became opposed to themselves, that they had ever attempted it, and slew Scribonianus ; exercitus conversus in poenitentiam, Scribonianum interfecit, Ors. 6,

sǽ-weard

(n.)

sea-ward,

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sea-ward, keeping watch and ward on the sea-coast; it was a duty that might be required in some cases of the thane and of the &#39;cotsetla&#39; Of manegum landum máre landriht áríst tó cyniges gebanne . . . sǽweard ( the section refers to the

wealc-spinel

(n.)
Grammar
wealc-spinel, e; f.

A curling-iron crisping-pin

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A curling-iron, crisping-pin Walcspinl calamistrum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 75

Linked entry: ge-wealcian

wealh-wyrt

(n.)
Grammar
wealh-wyrt, e; f.

Wall-wort dwarf elderthe word glosses ebulum and intula

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Wall-wort, dwarf elder; the word glosses ebulum and intula Walhwyrt, uualhuyrt, ualuyrt ebulum, elleus, Txts. 59, 714. Wealwyrt ebulum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 28, 75. Walwyrt, i. 30, 58. Wealwyrt ł ellenwyrt ebule ł eobulum, Lchdm. iii. 302, col. 1. Wælwyrt vel

Linked entries: weale-wyrt weal-wyrt