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in-wærc

(n.)
Grammar
in-wærc, es; m.
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Internal pain Ic þrowode mycelne ece mínre heortan and líflicra leoma . . . þá mettrumnesse lǽcas hátað mid Gréciscre sprǽce sincopia, inwræc (cf. sincopia, defectio stomachi, Ld. Gl. H. 41, 47), Gr. D. 243, 21. Wið innwræce (inwerce, v. l. ), Ll.

ísern

(adj.)
Grammar
ísern, adj.
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'Sete íserne weall. . . ' Da isernan hierste-pannan tǽhte for íserne weall. . . ísernum wealle, Past. 165, 8-12. Ðæt him genáme áne íserne (írene, v. l. ) hierstepannan, 161, 7 : 163, 22. íserne gelóman, Gr. D. 201, . 19.

hýþan

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Híðendum grassantibus (ad diram prostrata necem grassantibus armis, Ald. 204, 10), Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 37. Add

lín

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Liin manitergium, Txts. 76, 634. Lín, Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 42. befealdan mid líne uoluant crucem sindone, Angl. xiii. 421, 808. onféng líne (linteum) and hine mid begyrde, Hml. A. 155, 92, 103. [v. N. E. D. line.] Add: —

ofer-hón

(v.)
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to hang with something so as to cover an object Þæs muntes cnoll mid þeósterlicum genipum eal oferhangen wæs, Hml. Th. i. 504, 31. To him geneélǽhton sume ælþeódige men . . . oferhangene mid tóslitenum cláðum (scissis vestibus, pannis obsiti ), Gr.

Linked entry: hón

on-hildan

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1. Add Mid þám þe þá flaxan onhyllde (-hylde, v. l.), þá eóde þǽr út án nǽddre cum flasconem inclinasset, de eo serpens egressus est, Gr. D. 142, 11. Add Fram dómum þínum ic ne anhylde (declinaui), Ps. L. 118, 102

smearcian

(v.)
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Swá se hálga wer þis gehýrde, þá smercode (hlóh, v. l.) swilce þæt spell forhogode quo audito vir sanctus dedignando subrisit, Gr. D. 29, 13. Ðá heó þis gehýrde, þá smearcode heó wið his weardes, Hml. S. 23 b, 590. Add

swígan

Grammar
swígan, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Ðá ðe fore-eádun giðreótodun hine ꝥte swígde, Lk. R. 18, 39. v. æt-swígan. to pass over in silence, v. swigian; III Ne ic eác swíge (forsuwie, v.l. ) , his gingra ge-wunode reccenne, Gr. D. 157, 18

swimman

Grammar
swimman, <b>. II.</b>
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Add þonne swam mid þám ilcan scipe, þonne hit wæs ýþa full qualiter cum carabo undis pleno nataverat, Gr. D. 347, 21. Add Ágeót wæter uppon ðone ele, and se ele ábrecð úp and swimð bufon, Hml. Th ii. 564, 14

teosu-word

(n.)
Grammar
teosu-word, es; n.
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An injurious word Þá swíðust óðre men mid tesowordum tǽl[d]e in his renceo, þá earnode þæs écan teónan, Nap. 62. Þá oftost tesoword spræc in his onmédlan gealpettunga, þá earnode þára mǽstan benda, 27, 39

tó-beátan

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scip becóm Ostican swíðe tóbrocen and -beáten fram þám ýþum ( fluctibus quassata ), Gr. D. 347, 7. Ðá cempan hine lange swungon ... þá cómon his geféran and fundon hine licgendne on blódigum limum and tóbeátenum líchaman, Hml. S. 31, 981. Add

æfter

Grammar
æfter, <b>. A. I.</b> 5.
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Add Æfter ðám hege, C. D. iii. 77, 29. 16. add :-- Gesellan welan æfter ( in order to obtain) anwealde, Bt. 33, 2; F. 124, ii. &lt;b&gt;B.&lt;/b&gt; add: marking sequence Ǽrest . . . æfter, Ll. Th. i. 6, 17

á-stregdan

Grammar
á-stregdan, Add: also pp.-strogden
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Stregd (ástregd,v. L.) þis gehálgode wæter ofer þæs mannes líchaman, Gr. D. 82, 17. Ástregde (-stréde, v. 1.) man þone wǽtan mid háligwætere liquor aspergatur aqua benedicta, Ll. Th. ii. 214, 29. Ástrogden asparsus, Rtl. 118, 5 : 119, II: 122, 22

á-stihting

(n.)
Grammar
á-stihting, e; f.

Instigation

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Instigation Of ástihtinge instinctu, i. doctrina, An. Ox. 2707. [So also Hpt. Gl. 469, 65.Napier (v. note) takes the word as an error for átihtinge, but cf. Paulus for his líchaman stihtunga bæd, (de carnis suae stimulo) Gr. D. 166, 25.]

án-forlǽtan

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Add: to let go what one holds 'Ic bebeóde hine leng ne beran, ac hine ánforlǽtan.' And hié sóna hine forlétan and gefeól, Bl.

Linked entry: for-lǽtan

Dorn-sǽte

(n.)
Grammar
Dorn-sǽte, Dor-sǽte; gen. -sǽta ; dat. > -sǽtum, -sǽton, -sǽtan; pl. m. [dor = Celt. dwr, dur water; -sǽte dwellers, inhabitants: dwellers by water]

Inhabitants or men of Dorsetshire, people of Dorsetshire in a body, DORSETSHIREDorsetenses, Dorsetia

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Dipl. 1302 ; A. D. 1006; Kmbl. vi. 155, 6: 1334; A. D. 1046; Kmbl. vi. 195, 31. On Dorsǽtan in Dorsetshire, Cod. Dipl. 841; Kmbl. iv. 200, 26: 871; Kmbl. iv. 221, 5: Chr. 1078; Th. 350, 17

Linked entry: sǽta

hǽþ

(n.)
Grammar
hǽþ, a heath, hǽþ a plant. Take these together, for ' e ; f. ' substitute es; n.
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m, and add: a heath, a tract of uncultivated, waste land, masc. Andlang ðǽre díc ðǽm hǽðe foreweardan . . . ; ðonne westweard ofer ðone hǽð, C. D. iii. 264, 2-4. Úp on ðene hǽð; ofer ðene hǽð, 384, 26. neut. Ofer ðæt hǽð, C. D. iii. 392, 3, 5.

wiþ

Grammar
wiþ, <b>. I</b> I a.
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add: where the motion is in a direction opposite to that in which another object moves Se líg dreów wið þæi windes, Hml. Th. ii. 510, 9. Add Þeáh him mon sleá mid sweorde wiþ þæs heáfdes, Bl. H. 47, 14. 2.

A

(prefix)
Grammar
A, A. It is not necessary to speak of the form of what are often called Anglo-Saxon letters, as all Teutonic, Celtic, and Latin manuscripts of the same age are written in letters of the same form. There is one exception: the Anglo-Saxons had, with great propriety, two different letters for the two distinct sounds of our th: the hard þ in thin and sooth, and the soft ð in thine and soo
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Occasionally á becomes oe in English; as a doe, a foe, toe, woe; but the oe, in these words, has the sound of o in no. The same may be said of oa in oak, goad.

ge-cneordnes

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Add Ic hine þe befæste mid heálicre gecneordnisse on Crístes gewitnysse I most earnestly commend him to you calling Christ to witness, Ælfc. T. Grn. 16, 47.