mis-micel
Wanting in greatness or quantity(?) ⬩ few
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ðonne men cunnon to preserve the life of all that lives on earth Noah had an everlasting remnant (one from which an endless line of descendants would come), an original pair, father and mother, of every one of the offspring-producers, few in number, (
ge-tweógan
To doubt ⬩ hesitate ⬩ dŭbĭtāre
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Ðá gehreów him ðæt hyne ǽfre swá on his geþohte getweóde then he repented that he had ever so doubted in his mind, Shrn. 155, 19
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ge-wadan
To wade ⬩ go ⬩ vadere ⬩ ire ⬩ To pervade ⬩ go through
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Wundenstefna gewaden hæfde ðæt ða líðende land gesáwon the ship had gone [so far] that the sailors saw land, Beo. Th. 446; B. 220. v. trans. To pervade, go through Flód blód gewód blood pervaded the flood, Cd. 166; Th. 207, 6; Exod. 462: Elen.
Grécas
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The Greeks; Græci Ðá gefélde he his líchoman healfne dǽl mid ða ádle geslægene beón, ðe Grécas nemnaþ paralysis, we cweðaþ lyft-ádl then felt he that the half of his body was struck with the illness which the Greeks call paralysis, we call lift-ill,
bord-hreóða
the cover or protection of the shield ⬩ clypei tegmen vel tutela ⬩ a shield, buckler ⬩ clypeus
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Hæfdon hie ofer bordhreóðan beácen arǽred they had a signal reared over their bucklers, 160; Th. 198, 9; Exod. 326. Brǽcon bordhréðan they broke through the bucklers, Invent. Crs. Recd. 242; El. 122
box
A wooden case made of box-wood, a BOX ⬩ buxom, pyxis ⬩ a box
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Seó hæfde box mid deórwyrþre sealfe she had a box of precious ointment, Mt. Bos. 26, 7. Ellenes blósman gedó on box put blossoms of elder into a box, L. M. 2, 59; Lchdm. ii. 288, 3. Hundteontig boxa a hundred [of] boxes, Jn. Bos. 19, 39
ge-cost
Tried ⬩ proved ⬩ chosen ⬩ probātus
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Tried, proved, chosen; probātus Til mon, tiles and tomes meares, cúþes and gecostes a good man has care for a good and tame horse known and tried, Exon. 91 a; Th. 342, 14; Gn. Ex. 143. Heápe gecoste with a chosen company, Elen. Kmbl. 538; El. 269.
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ge-frinan
To learn by asking ⬩ find out ⬩ hear of
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Hie hæfdon gefrunen they had learned, Beo. Th. 1392; B. 694 : 4797; D. 2403
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ge-hédan
to hide ⬩ conceal ⬩ condĕre ⬩ abscondĕre ⬩ to acquire ⬩ obtain ⬩ seize ⬩ obtĭnēre ⬩ deprehendĕre
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Forðonðe he ne úðe ðæt ǽnig óðer man ǽfre mǽrþa má gehédde under heofenum ðonne he sylfa because he would not grant that any other man had ever obtained more glories under heaven than himself, Beo. Th. 1014 : B. 505
geond-hweorfan
To turn or pass through, go about, traverse ⬩ pertransire, peragrare, perlustrare
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Hwílum cwén flet eall geondhwearf at times the queen went about all the hall, Beo. Th. 4039; B. 2017. Ðonan ic ealne geondhwearf éðel Gotena thence I traversed all the country of the Goths, Exon. 86 b; Th. 325, 9; Wíd. 109.
un-ásmeágendlíc
Unsearchable ⬩ past finding out ⬩ inscrutable
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Th. ii. 232, 4: Ham]. Skt. i. 1, 33. Ðín myldheortnys is swíðe mycel and unásmǽgendlíc, 3, 548. Ðære sáwle brógan, unásmeágendlícu yrmðu ( misery beyond the power of man to explore ), Wulfst. 249, 19.
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dyrstig
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Hé þá hálgan róde genam hám tó his earde árleáslíce dyrstig, Hml. S. 27, 26. Þæt heofonlice hors wearp ádúne þone dyrstigan Heliodorum, 25, 777. Gif huætd ungebyredlic bidda dyrstigo ué sindon si aliquid incongruum rogare ausi sumus, Rtl. 179, 34
freó-sceatt
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Property entirely at the owner's disposal, property of which the owner has absolute possession Ná þá áne þe freó synt, ac gyt má þá þe ǽhtborene synt and óþera manna freósceattas (freó sceattas?)
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ge-hwearf
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Æðeluuold bisceop sealde mé tó gehwerfe (mutuauit) ðone hám Heart-ingas wið ðám mynsterlande, iii. 60, 30. Geseoh, ic þé sylle þysne man tó gehwearfe for hine ecce, hunc hominem pro eo vicarium praebeo, Gr. D. 180, 20 : 181, 28
geár-gemearc
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Cf. fót-gemearc, míl-gemearc; geár-gerím Mé onsende sigedryhten mín, siððan ic furðum ongon on þone æfteran ánseld búgan geárgemearces ( directly after I had begun the second year of my inhabiting the hermitage.
ge-wirdan
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Ðý lǽs hié mid ðý tóle ðæt hále líc gewierden ðe hié sceoldon mid ðæt unhále áweg aceorfan dum per hoc in se sana perimunt, per quod salubriter abscindere sauciata debuerunt, Past. 365, 12.
lof-georn
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Ná hé lof-georn ( but the Latin has prodigus) ne sý, 55, 3
maga
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Þá preóstas þe áðer oððe ágen wylla oððe mage aelmeshand (a parent who had means but exhausted them by almsgiving; cf. Past. 325, 6-8) hæfenleáse gedyde clerici quos voluntas aut natiuitas pauperes fecit. Chrd. 12, 19. Cf. magian
líge-leóht
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same kind, and an adjective lége-leóht seems to be implied as much as the adjectives hát and hwít).