betst
Best, the best, first ⬩ optimus, primus
Entry preview:
Scipio, se besta [Laud MS. betsta] Rómana witena Scipio, the best of the Roman senators, Ors. 5, 4; Bos. 104, 38; Cot. MS. Tib. B. I. fol. 85 b Se betesta the best, Cot. 153. He sealde ðæt betste hors he gave the best horse, Bd. 3, 14; S. 540, 16.
Raculf
Entry preview:
See Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 324
be-strúdan
To bespoil, spoil, confiscate, rob ⬩ spoliare, privare, confiscare
Entry preview:
Bestroden confiscatus, Cot. 108
Linked entry: be-stroden
streám-rád
Entry preview:
the bed, course of a stream Streám-raad, -rád, streúmrád alveus, Txts. 39, 129. a watery road, the way across the sea Sum streámráde con, weorudes wísa ofer wídne holm, . Exon. Th. 296, 21; Crä. 54
þri-scíte
Triangular ⬩ three-cornered
Entry preview:
On ðone þryscýtan crundel, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 374, 26
dysig-nes
Entry preview:
Eálá on hú micelre dysignesse men nú sindon O dura mens hominum et cor semper inhumanum, Ors. 3, 9; S. 136, 17. Swá hwæt swá wé þurh hwylce dysignesse gedón habban, Hml. A. 143, 137. Add
heáh-sǽþeóf
Entry preview:
For ' Cot. 9, 191' substitute Heáhséðeáf archiparratta (archipirata, Ald. 56, 31, the gloss to which in An. Ox. 4039 is: Archipirata, i. summus latro flotman), Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 44. Heáhsǽðeóf, 5, 28. See next word
síþ
Entry preview:
Add Hé cóm tó his bréðer, and his síð be endebyrdnysse sǽde, Hml. Th. ii. 358, 25. 1. Add Ǽne síþa semel, Ps. Srt. 61, 12: 88, 36
Brádan ǽ
- Hist. Eccl. Petroburg.
- Gib. Chr. explicatio 15
Broadwater ⬩ Bradanea
Entry preview:
Broadwater Bradanea Þurh án scýr wæter, Brádan ǽ hátte through a clear water called Broadwater, per unam pulcram aquam, Bradanea nomine, Chr. 656; Erl. 31, 17; Cod. Dipl. 984; A. D. 664; Kmbl. v. 5, 3
slite
cyclamen, sowbread
Entry preview:
Slite cyclaminos iii. 301, col. 2: cyclamen Wrt. Voc. i. 67, 53: ciclamina ii. 131, 37
ge-syndrian
to separate
Entry preview:
On ðære gesyndredan híde in the separate hide, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 4, 8
Linked entry: ge-sundrian
ge-þuhtsum
Abundant
Entry preview:
Abundant Hit wæs ǽr ðǽr singal druwung and sóna æfter ðam com geþuhtsum rén on eorþan there had been there before continual drought, and directly after that came abundant rain on the earth, Shrn. 113, 20
Linked entry: -þuhtsum
Fearn-dún
Faringdon, Berkshire? or Farndon, Northamptonshire?-Hér Eádweard cing gefór on Myrcum æt Fearndúne in this year [A. D. 924] kind Edward died in Mercia at Farndon
Entry preview:
D. 924] kind Edward died in Mercia at Farndon, Chr. 924; Th. 198, 1, col. 2, 3
Læwes
Entry preview:
Æt Hamme wið Læwe, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 388, 18. Hamme juxta Læwes, vi. 46, 11
mǽdwe-land
Meadow-land ⬩ land where grass that is to be mown grows
Entry preview:
Éc twelf æceras gódes mǽdwelandes, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. ii. 150, 10-18 : vi. 219, 3
Linked entry: mǽd-land
binde
A band, wreath, head-band, fillet ⬩ corolla, fascia
Entry preview:
A band, wreath, head-band, fillet; corolla, fascia Hió an Ceoldryþe hyre betstan [MS. betsðan] bindan she gives to Ceoldryth her best band, Cod, Dipl. 1290; A. D. 995; Kmbl. vi. 133, 18, 20
ge-lǽte
A going out ⬩ ending ⬩ meeting ⬩ exitus ⬩ occursus
Entry preview:
Twegra wega gelǽtu meetings of two ways, Cot. 110. Æt ðæra wæga gelǽte, Gen. 38, 21
Linked entries: þeóh-gelǽte ge-lét
sídling-weg
Entry preview:
Ofer feld on ða rihtlandgemǽre on ðone sídlingweg tó wuda, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 446, 19. Cf. Halliwell Dict. sidelings aslant, sideways : Jamieson sideling, oblique ; sydlingis obliquely, not directly
un-gehealdsumness
Incontinence
Entry preview:
Ðes þeódscype þurh ungehealdsumnesse áwyrd is, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 349, 7
unfriþ-here
A hostile army ⬩ an army that is carrying on hostilities
Entry preview:
A hostile army, an army that is carrying on hostilities Com se ungemetlíca unfriðhere tó Sandwíc, Chr. 1009; Erl. 142, 16. On ðissum geáre wæs ðet gafol gelǽst ðam unfriðehere, 1007; Erl. 141, 13