scip-gefére
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A going by ship, navigation, sailing Hé on his scipgefére hwearf eft tó Cent rediit Cantiam navigio, Bd. 2, 20; S. 521, 41
for-elcian
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to put off too long, delay unduly Ꝥ sume þá gecorene . . . beón gemanede tó Godes þénunga þe heó forelcodan, Nap. 24 (12th cent. MS.)
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eág-hlid
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Z. 298, 4 note (12th cent.). Ase þin ehelid tuneð ant openeð, O. E. Hml. i. 265, 5. ] [
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cor-snǽd
A choice or trial piece ⬩ panis conjurátus, offa consecrāta
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A choice or trial piece; panis conjurátus, offa consecrāta. A sort of ordeal in which the person accused had placed in his mouth an ounce of bread or cheese. If he ate it freely and without hurt, he was considered innocent; but guilty, if he could not
fitel-fóta
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Gl. 602, 32 (15th cent.), Wrt. Voc. i. 46, omitted after 42 (v. Angl. viii. 451)
gealg-treów
a gallow-tree
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Add: a gallow-tree (gallows-tree comes in only in the 19th cent. The older form remains in local names e. g. Gallowtree-gate in Leicester) Tó ðám galhtreówe on deópan dene, C. D. iii. 439, 12
web-beám
a weaver's beam ⬩ the treadle of a loom
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Voc. i. 218, 3 (15th cent.).]
æt-fón
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Gif feoh man eft æt þám mæn in Cent ætfó, 34, 6. Cf. 160, 8
wæter-nædre
A water-snake
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Wateraddur vipera, 177, 37 (all 15th cent. )
in-faru
Invasion ⬩ inroad
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Invasion, march into a country, inroad Se cyng bæd hine faran intó Cent ... ac se eorl nolde ná geþwǽrian ðære infare the king bade him [Godwin] march into Kent . . . but the earl would not assent to the invasion, Chr. 1048; Erl. 178, 11
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webbestre
A female weaver
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Parv. 519 (all 15th cent. glossaries).]
hundfeald-lic
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Hundred-fold Hundfealdlic hé onféhð centu*-*plum accipiet, Scint. 58, 2
stedig
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Oð stedigu cenð maniga donec sterilis peperit plurimos, Ps. Rdr. 279, 5. Add
mynster-hám
A monastic house ⬩ monastery
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Ðone oferécan mon gedǽle gind mynsterhámas tó Godes ciricum in Súðregum and in Cent, Chart. Th. 482, 18
Cant-ware
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Paulinus huerf eft tó Cantwarum (gewát tó Cent, v. l. ), Chr. 633; P. 24, 21. Add
cannon
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in Wæs ꝥ lond ádrígad and cannon palus sicca et ceno habundans, Nar. 20, 23
horu
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S. 7, 129.] of physical impurity (or uncertain) Fúles horewes squalentis ceni, An. Ox. 3598. Mixe, horwe ceno, i. luto, Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 71. Fúle horewas putidos (ergastuli) squalores, An.
un-tóbrocen
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Untóbro[cen] indisrupta, An. Ox. 4375. Add
yfel
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Hé wæs swíþe yfel monn ealra þeáwa, búton ꝥ hé wæs céne, Ors. 6, 14; S. 268, 27. Add
wáse
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Cenum, i. luti vorago, vel lutum sub aquis fetidum, i. wáse vel fæn, 130, 75.