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setl

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</b> add :-- Þǽr sǽton setla on dóme illic sederunt sedes in iudicio, Ps. L. 121, 5. <b>I c.</b> add :-- Sió sunne þǽr gǽð neár on setl þonne on óðrum lande, Ors. 1. 1; S. 24, 18.

belle

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Beácn þǽre bellan gehýran, Hml. A. 168, 107. Áhéng se munuc áne lytle bellan on ðám stánclúde . . . Se deófol wearp ǽnne stán tó ðǽre bellan, þæt heó tósprang, Hml. Th. ii. 156, 4-10. Hos-tiarius. . . sceal mid bellan bícnigan þá tída. Ll.

be-smítan

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R. 14, 34. moral þæt ic ne sié besmiten ne violer, Wrt. Voc. ii. 61, 63. of the action of a person Ic mín fǽmnhád besmát, Hml. S. 23b, 328. þúwoldest þone besmítan þe þú nánwiht yfles on nystest. Bl. H. 85, 36.

fore-mǽre

Grammar
fore-mǽre, , for-mǽre.
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Ben. 137, 25. of things, material On þǽre dúne wæs gefyrn foremǽre templ, Hml. S. 3, 236. Þæt wæs foremǽrost receda, B. 309. non-material Is ꝥ seó foremǽre gebyrd Sancte Ióhannes, Bl. H. 161, 6. Foremǽran (foræmeran, MS.; fore mǽran ?)

mǽrþu

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mǽrþu, <b>. I.</b>
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Sceolde him man bringan ongeán crætwǽn . . . hiora consulum tó mǽrþe, þæt wæs triumpheum, Ors. 2, 4; S. 70, 35. Add Mǽrþa insignia (ornamentorum et vestium). An. Ox. 5172.

bearn-teám

progenyoffspringissuechild-bearingprocreation of children

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Hé bi þǽre fægerne bearnteám gestrýnde, seó wæs Agathes geháten, Chr. 1057; P. 188, 14. Seó gelaðung ácenð micelne bearnteám, Hml. A. 30, 161. Ꝥ hí heora bearn-teám gebringon tó Críste þurh fulluht, 34, 254.

lystan

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Swá hwelcne mon swá lyste þæt witan, Ors. 1. 11 ; S. 50, 17. with gen. and dat. infin. cf. (2 d) Fela mé lyste witan ðes þe ic nát.

Pater-noster

(n.)
Grammar
Pater-noster, m. n.
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Wé habbað gesǽd embe þæt Paternoster, Hml. Th. i. 274, 19-22: ii. 604, 15-16: Hml. S. 12, 261: Wlfst. 33, 2. Se láreów sceal secgan þám lǽwedum mannum ꝥ andgyt tó þám Paternostre, 265: Hml. Th. ii. 604, 18.

fers

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the Bible: Stynt on þǽre béc on þám forman ferse, Ælfc.

án-dagian

(v.)
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Ðá cwæð ic þæt hé wolde cunnigan, and bæd ðone cing ðæt hé hit ándagade ( that he would appoint a day for taking the oath ), and hé swá dyde, and hé gelǽdde ðá tó ðon ándagan ðone áð . . . and wé ridan ðá tó ðon ándagan, Cht. Th. 171, 18-34. Add

dóm-setl

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Þæt hí on ðám micclum dóme ofer twelf dómsetl sittende beóð tó démenne eallum mannum, Hml. Th. i. 542, 20. Add

fant-hálgung

(n.)
Grammar
fant-hálgung, e; f.
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Þurh þá fonthálgunge gewyrð sóna Godes midwist, and ðurh ðá orðunge þe se sácerd on þæt wæter orðað, þonne hé font hálgað, wyrð deófol þanon áfyrsad, Wlfst. 36, 2

fram-fær

(n.)
Grammar
fram-fær, es; n.
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Ic ðé bebeóde þæt ðú ( a dragon ) gewíte of ðyssere stówe, and far tó wéstene ... and þú nánum men on ðínum framfære ne drece, 296, 5

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ge-fiscian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-fiscian, p. ode
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.), to fish for, catch or try to catch fish Críst dyde þæt hí mid his heofonlican láre manna sáwla gefixodon . . . be dám cwæð se wítega : 'Ic ásende míne fisceras, and hí gefixiað hí' ( ego mittam piscatores, et piscabuntur eos, Jer, 16, 16), Hml.

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ýfer

(n.)
Grammar
ýfer, (?); gen. ýfre.
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Þis syndon þá landgemǽru . . . þæt is ǽrest heáhýfre; of heáhýfre, C. D. B. i. 117, 26

on-cunnan

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Vos. 140, 4, and add Hí ealle bǽdon heora wóhnyssa forgyfennyssa, þæs þe hí þæs unrihtes hý oncúðan, Hml. A. 136, 670.

án-standende

(adj.)
Grammar
án-standende, alone.
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Þæt hié (hermits) ánstandende ( sola manu) ongeán deófol winnan magan, R. Ben. 9, 7

eax

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Áhóh þæt heáfod nyþerweard oððæt seó ex sý gesóht hang the head downwards until the vertical axis is reached (until it is hanging vertically downwards? ), Lch. iii. 2, 11. Add

ge-erian

(v.)
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On þæt gerád þe hé ǽlce geáre of þám lande geerige twégen æceras and þǽron his circsceat gesáwe, C. D. ii. 398, 20. .iii. æceras geerian on heora ágenre hwíle and mid heora ágenan sǽda gesáwan, iv. 306, 27. Add

nirwett

(n.)
Grammar
nirwett, n. (not m. )
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</b> a place of confinement :-- Godes Sunu wæs geléd on nearuwre binne, tó ðí þæt hé ús fram hellicum nyrwette (the prison (or (?) confinement) of hell) álýsde, Hml. Th. i. 34, 32