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án-tíd

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Add:as an alternative meaning: An appointed hour, time when something is due Ymb ántíd óðres dógores wundenstefna gewaden hæfde þæt þá liðende land gesáwon, i. e. the boat was in sight of land at the time when it was due to be so. Cf. án-daga

án-waldan

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Dele

an-weald

(n.)
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an-weald, &c. In some of the following instances (e.g. anwald monarchiam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 45) perhaps ánweald, &c. should be read, but for the most part the passages may be taken as additions to the
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onweald, &c. forms, q. v

an-weald

(adj.)
Grammar
an-weald, adj.
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Powerful Hi wuldrodon þá anwaldan and hergendlican þrynysse, Hml. S. 30, 452

an-wealda

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Hé wæs swá milde swá him nán onwald (an-wealda, v. l. ) næs ǽr þǽm, Ors. 6, 2; S. 254, 22. Add

an-wealdend

(n.)
Grammar
an-wealdend, es; m.
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A ruler: — From onwealdendum ( the Latin is abominationem which the glosser has misread as a dominatione ?), Ps. Spl. T. 87, 8

an-wealdian

(v.)

Similar entry: ge-anwealdian

an-wealdness

(n.)
Grammar
an-wealdness, e; f.
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Power, possession Anwealdnesse possessiones, Ps. L. 104, 21. On anwealdnesse in potestatem, 135, 9. On anweald-nyssum in potestatibus, 19, 7

Linked entries: an-weald wealdness

an-wealh

Similar entry: on-wealh

an-wedd

(n.)
Grammar
an-wedd, (and-?), es; n.
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Security for a loan, recognizance Hire fæder áborgude XXX punda æt Godan and betǽht him þæt land þæs feós tó anwedde ( pro vadimonio eidem dedit terram). Cht. Th. 201, 17

án-wíg

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Ánwíges biddan to challenge to a duel, Ors. 3, 6; S. 108, 10: Bl. H. 201, 22. Golias clypode bysmor Godes folce, gearu tó ánwíge, Hml. S. 18, 21. Ðá gewearð him bám ꝥ hí twégen tó ánwíge eódon, 27, 53: Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 17. Rómáne curon III hund cempena

án-wíg-gearo

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l. an wíg gearo

án-wíglíce

(adv.)
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Substitute Ánwíglíce feohtende singulariter congrediens, Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 1

án-wintre

Grammar
án-wintre, v. én-wintre
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in Dict.:

an-wlǽta

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dele, and see and-wlata

an-wlite

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an-wlite, dele, and see un-wlite
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in Dict

an-wrigennes

Grammar
an-wrigennes, v. on-wrigenness
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in Dict

an-wunigende

(adj.)
Grammar
an-wunigende, l.
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an wunigende

bí-genge

(n.)
Grammar
bí-genge, (?), an; f.

attendant

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A female worshipper, attendant Bígencge (but cf. bígengcest, An. Ox. 2065, a gloss of the same passage) cultricem, ministraticem, Hpt. Gl. 455, 16

bíme

(n.)
Grammar
bíme, (ié, é, ý), an; f.: bíma; m.?

a trumpet ⬩ a tablet ⬩ billet

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a trumpet (in the first place of wood v. beám: cf. horn) Hefe úp ðíne stefne suá bíme (biéme, v. l. tuba), Past. 91, 20. Béma, Rtl. 5, 14. Býma, Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 58. Béme concha, Txts. 53, 571: barbita, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 28. Býme salpix, 96, 22. Hlúdstefne

Linked entries: býme beám

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