Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

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eorþ-weard

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Substitute for 'An earth-guard,' what guards a land, a fortress, and add leóda fæsten after lígdraca

fen-hóp

(n.)
Grammar
fen-hóp, fen-hop, es; n.
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Land in the midst of fens (v. N. E. D. hope) Fleón on fenhopu, B. 764. Substitute:

feoh-georn

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Leófan men, beorgað eów wið deófles lára . . . ne beón gé tó feohgeorne, Wlfst. 40, 17 note.. Add

in-timbrian

(v.)
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Trymede hé hí mid his láre and mid his manunge heora heortan intimbrede, Guth. 64, 19. Add

un-gewemmed

Grammar
un-gewemmed, <b>. I.</b>
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Danihel læg seofan niht betwux seofon leónum on ánum seáðe ungewemmed, Hml. Th. i. 488, 5. Add

up-ness

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
up-ness, e; f.

Height

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Lamb. 103, 3

Linked entry: up

breáw

(n.)

an eye-lid,

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Lamb. 131, 4

ge-spédiglíce

(adv.)
Grammar
ge-spédiglíce, adv.

Prosperously ⬩ successfully ⬩ prospĕre

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Lamb. 44. 5

Linked entry: spédiglíce

a-wyndwian

(v.)

to blow away ⬩ ventilare

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to blow away; ventilare We awyndwiaþ [windwiaþ, Lamb.] fýnd úre ventilabimus inimicos nostros, Ps. Spl. 43, 7

dún-lendisc

(adj.)
Grammar
dún-lendisc, adj.

Hilly, mountainous land ⬩ montānus

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Hilly, mountainous land; montānus Sume sind derivatīva, swá dún-lendisc montānus, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 10

for-gitelnes

(n.)
Grammar
for-gitelnes, -ness, e; f.

Forgetfulness ⬩ a forgetting ⬩ oblīvio

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Lamb. 9, 19

for-wyrpnes

(n.)
Grammar
for-wyrpnes, -ness, e; f.

A rejection ⬩ abjectio

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Lamb. 21, 7

in-gehygdness

(n.)
Grammar
in-gehygdness, e; f.

Intention ⬩ purpose

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Lamb. 48, 5

Linked entry: ge-hygdness

Peác-

(prefix)
Grammar
Peác-, Péc-sǽtan; pl.
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The occupiers of the Peak Pécsǽtna [land is] twelf hund hýda, Cod. Dip. B. i. 414. 17

síþ-boren

(adj.)
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late-born Of ðǽm síþborenum de post fetantes, Ps. Surt. 77, 70 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 84

síma

(n.)
Grammar
síma, an ; m.
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A cord, rope Satan læg símon gesǽled (cf. Icel. sím-bundinn), Cd. Th. 47, 23 ; Gen. 765

trymþ

(n.)
Grammar
trymþ, e; f.
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Lamb. 104, 16

þenning

(n.)
Grammar
þenning, e; f.
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Stretching, extension Be Cristes earm[a] þenninge and his honda on róde, Anglia xi. 172, last line

Linked entry: earm-þenning

wísere

(n.)
Grammar
wísere, es; m.

sign-post

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Tó Afene; on wísere; on ða fúlan lace, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 301, 36

wrec-scipe

(n.)
Grammar
wrec-scipe, es; m.

Exile ⬩ living in a foreign land

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Exile, living in a foreign land Mín wrecscype incolatus meus, Blickl. Gl. : Ps. Spl. T. 119, 5

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