wine
A friend. ⬩ applied to an equal ⬩ applied to one who can help or protect ⬩ a friendly lord ⬩ a (powerful) friend ⬩ used of a husband or lover ⬩ applied to an inferior or subordinate, one to whom favour or protection may be shewn
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Geared lǽfde land and leódweard (cf. Geared gold brittade..., his freómágum leóf, 72, 8; Gen. 1183), Cd. Th. 72, 29; Gen. 1194. Ne þurfon mé hæleð ætwítan, nú mín wine (Byrhtnoth) gecranc, ðæt ic hláfordleás hám síðie, Byrht. Th. 139, 7; By. 250.
hreów
Sorrow ⬩ regret ⬩ penitence ⬩ penance ⬩ repentance
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Hú langæ ðú on hreówe ǽwunian sceole quamdiu pœnitentiæ insistere, Bd. 4, 25; S. 600, 11. On gódre hreówe in vera pœnitentia, L. Ecg. C. 2; Th. ii. 136, 24. Mid synna hreówe with repentance for sins, L. Wih. 3; Th. i. 36, 18: 5; Th. i. 38, 8.
ríþ
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Tó ðam lande ðe fléwþ on ríþum meolce and hunies, Num. 16, 14. v. wæter-r-iþe and next word
lencten
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Hér wæs mycel gefeoht on Norðhymbra lande on lengtene ( in spring or in Lent ? ) on .iiii. No. Apł Chr. 798; P. 57, 35. On længtene eregian and impian, beána sáwan . . . Angl. ix. 262, 6.
þorn
A thorn ⬩ the prickle of a plant ⬩ a plant on which such prickles grow
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Átió hé of lande ða þornas and ða fyrsas and ðæt fearn and ealle ða weód ðe hé gesió ðæt ðám æcerum, derigen liberat arva fruticibus, falce rubos filicemque resecat, Bt. 23; Fox 78, 22: Met. 12, 3. Þ byþ þearle scearp, Runic pm.
BEÓN
To BE ⬩ exist ⬩ become ⬩ esse ⬩ fieri
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Ne byþ lang it shall not be long Elen. Grm. 433 : Beo. Th. 3529; B. 1762. Sélre biþ ǽghwám it is better for every one Andr. Kmbl. 640; An. 320 : Ps. Th. 111, 9 : Beo. Th. 2009; B. 1002 : Mt. Bos. 5, 14, 19, 21, 22.
HÝD
HIDE ⬩ skin
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Ðá heó [the snake] gefylled wæs hé hét hý behyldan and ða hýde tóRóme bringan ... heó wæs hundtwelftiges fóta lang, Ors. 4, 6; Bos. 85, 1. Hé healde iii niht hýde [of an ox] and heáfod and sceápes eallswá.
Linked entry: hýd-gild
tela
Well. ⬩ well, rightly, aright, correctly ⬩ well, perfectly, completely, thoroughly, certainly ⬩ well, prosperously, happily ⬩ well, in a beneficial or pleasant manner ⬩ marking degree, very, to a great extent ⬩ as an exclamation, well, good
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Th. 2455; B. 1225. as an exclamation, well, good Ðá andswaredon hí: 'Nis hit lang tó ðon.' Cwæþ hé: 'Tela, utan wé ðære tíde bídan,' Bd. 4, 24; S. 599, 5. Cwæþ ic: 'Hwí ne sceolde mé swá ðincan?'
sittan
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Add þǽr sæt on þám lande swýðe swýþlic hungor vehemens fames incubuerat, Gr. D. 251, 10. Þǽr on sæt mycel hunger, 145, 5. Heofonflód micel on sæt (set, v. l. ), Bd. 3, 24; Sch. 309, 16. Þeáh ðe him ádl on ne sitte, Hml. Th. i. 614, 16.
Cerdic
Cerdic ⬩ Cerdĭcus
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And six years after they landed, they subdued the West-Saxons' kingdom; and they were the first kings, who conquered the West-Saxons' land from the Welsh; and he had the kingdom sixteen years; and when he died, then his son Cynric succeeded
irmþ
Poverty ⬩ penury ⬩ misery ⬩ wretchedness ⬩ calamity ⬩ distress ⬩ disorder
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Nis ðǽr on ðam londe yldu ne yrmþu in that land there is not age or misery, Exon. 56 b; Th. 201, 6; Ph. 52 : 64 b; Th. 238, 34; Ph. 614.
Linked entry: earmþu
mín
Mine ⬩ my
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Grammar mín, used substantively Wlwine habbe ðæt land ðe hé mínes hafde, Chart. Th. 580, 24. Ic heóld mín tela, Beo. Th. 5468; B. 2737. Gif ic mót míne wealdan, Cd. 102; Th. 136, 1; Gen. 2251. Ealle míne synt ðíne, and ðíne synt míne, Jn.
ge-faran
To go ⬩ proceed ⬩ reach by going ⬩ arrive ⬩ ire ⬩ proficisci ⬩ meare ⬩ to depart ⬩ die ⬩ to proceed ⬩ get on ⬩ fare ⬩ To get by going ⬩ experience ⬩ occupy ⬩ reach ⬩ obtain ⬩ go against
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Twegen æðelingas gefóran ðæt lond two princes occupied that land, Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 32, 35. Philippus gefór heora burh Philip took their town, 3, 7; Bos. 60, 6.
Linked entry: ge-fór
ge-niman
To take, take up, take away, assume, receive, accept, obtain, comprehend, enter into ⬩ sūmĕre, tollĕre, auferre, assūmĕre, accĭpĕre, nancisci, comprehendĕre, inīre
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Hú lange démaþ gé unrihtwísnysse, and ansýne synfulra genimaþ usquequo jūdĭcātis inīquĭtātem, et făcies peccātōrum sūmĭtis? Ps. Spl. 81, 2. Heó genam cúðe folme she took the well known hand, Beo. Th. 2609; B. 1302: 4850; B. 2429.
Linked entries: aweg-geniman ge-namne ge-nioman ge-nyman
æt-bredan
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Þá land þe ðá hǽðenan ætbrodon hæfdon, Hml. S. 30, 307. Æt-bróden direpta, An. Ox. 3647. with idea of rescue Ic ætbréde oððe áhredde eripio, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 168, 9. Sé ðe úre fæderas feóndum ætbrǽd, Hml. S. 19, 153.
ealdor-dóm
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Willelm cyngc geaf Ródbearde eorle þone ealdordóm ofer Norðhymbra land, 1067; P. 203, 20. Ealdordóm tribunatum, i. principatum, Hpt. Gl. 427, 22. Ealderdóm monarchiam, i. principatum, An. Ox. 1994.
gird
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</b> a straight line drawn as a mark :-- Ymniscus ys seó gyrd þe byð betwyx þám twám pricon ligende, Angl. viii. 333, 44. as a measure of length, a rod, pole. v. passage under weall-stellung and met-gird Ðæs landes . . . .xxiii. gerda on lange,
ge-unnan
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Hí habbað geunnen twá land in tó ðǽre hálgan stówe, C.
wærlíce
warily, cautiously, circumspectly, ⬩ in a way that guards against surprise ⬩ in a way that guards against an ill result, safely ⬩ carefully, heedfully, prudently
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, 3. in a way that guards against an ill result, safely Námon hí tó rǽde, ðæt him wærlícor wǽre, ðæt hí sumne dǽl heora londes wurðes æthæfdon they came to the conclusion, that it would be safer for them to keep back some part of the price of their land
CNIHT
A boy ⬩ youth ⬩ attendant ⬩ servant ⬩ KNIGHT: ⬩ puer ⬩ juvenis ⬩ adolescens ⬩ servus
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Ic, Oswold bisceop, landes sumne dǽl sumum cnihte ðæm is Osulf nama, for uncre sybbe, forgeaf I, bishop Oswald, have given a portion of land to a knight named Osulf, for our kinship Cod. Dipl. 557; A. D. 969; Kmbl. iii. 49, 32: 612; A.