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wed-bryce

(n.)
Grammar
wed-bryce, , es; m.

Breach of a pledge or engagement

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Eác syndan wide þurh áðbrycas and ðurh wedbrycas and ðurh mistlíce leásunga forloren and forlogen má ðonne scolde, Wulfst. 164, 7. Wed*-*bricas, 130, 6. [Cf. With wedbrek cum adulteris, Ps. 49, 18.]

for-healdness

(n.)
Grammar
for-healdness, e; f.

Incontinenceunchasteness

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Ne gewemmað eówre líchaman ðurh forhealdnesse, Nap. 24

wácmódness

Grammar
wácmódness, <b>. I.</b>
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Hé ðám fæderum bebeád þæt hí heora bearn ne geǽbiligdon, þæt hí ne wurdon gewǽhte ðurh wácmódnesse . . . Cildru behófiað swíðlicere steóre, Hml. Th. ii. 324, 27. Add

piporian

(v.)
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Wring ðurh cláð and pipera þonne, Lch. iii. 40, 7. Cnucian gódne dǽl gárleáces and dón þǽrtó and piperian swá swá þé þince, Archiv lxxxiv. 325 c. Add

wǽpen-hete

(n.)
Grammar
wǽpen-hete, es; m.

Armed hatehate that resorts to arms

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Armed hate, hate that resorts to arms Æðele sceoldon ðurh wǽpenhete weorc þrowian the noble ones were to be slain by their foes, Apstls. Kmbl. 159; Ap. 80

andet-nes

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Ðurh ondetnesse, Past. 367, 6. Wé byddaþ þé ꝥ þú sylle andetnysse Gode, Nic. 10, 28. Mid andetnessum eallra þǽra mǽrða, Hml. S. 25, 505. Add

wiln

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Hwí dést þú ðé sylfe ðurh wáce þeáwas swilce þú wyln sý, Hml. S. 8, 44. Seó wyln (cf. án mínra wimmanna, 187), 2, 211. Add: —

cleófa

Grammar
cleófa, l. cleofa,
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Ðá eóde Basilius tó ðám clyfan, ac se preóst nolde undón þá duru mid cǽge, Hml. S. 3, 480-4. Sum déma hét hí belúcan on stǽnenum cleofan, Shrn. 103, 4. Cleofan absidan, Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 51.

ge-stæððignes

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Add: staidness Gesete, Dryhten, hirde mínum múðe and ðá duru gestæððignesse (ostium circumslantiae), Past. 275, 22. Seó rípung his gestæþþignesse sý swylc þæt hine ne worian lyste cuius maturitas eum non sinat vagari, R. Ben. 126, 17.

wiþer-corenness

(n.)
Grammar
wiþer-corenness, e; f.

Reprobateness

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Reprobateness Swá fela manna gebúgaþ tó geleáfan on ðissere andwerdan gelaðunge, ðæt hí sume eft út berstaþ ðurh wiðercorennysse and leahtrum heora ðwyran lífes, Homl. Th. ii. 290, 19

rustig

(adj.)
Grammar
rustig, adj.

Rusty

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Rusty Ðá wurdon Janes dura fæste betýned and his loco rustega ' Jani portas ipse clausit, Quas obseratas otio ipsa etiam rubigo signavit, Ors. 5,15 ; Swt. 251, 21

hirw-ness

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Ne ǽnig man ne gewunie þæt hé huxlíce onhisce, ne ðurh hyrwnesse (hyruw-, v. l. blasphemiam) God ne gegremie, Wlfst. 70, 12. Take here hyrw-ness in Dict., and add

heardness

(n.)
Grammar
heardness, e; f.

Hardness

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Ðú æteówdest ðínum folce heardnyssa ostendisti populo tuo dura, Ps. Lamb. 59, 5

búta

(adv.)
Grammar
búta, adv.
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Petrus stód to dura búta Petrus stabat ad ostium foris, Jn. Rush. War. 18, 16

un-gelimplíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-gelimplíce, adv.

Unseasonablyunhappily

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Hér is ðære lyfte fágetung ðurh mislíce stormas ðe ungelimplíce becumaþ, Homl. Th. ii. 538. 33

Linked entry: ge-limplíce

for-logen

(adj.)
Grammar
for-logen, for-logen; adj. (ptcpl.)
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Guilty of bearing false witness Syndan ðurh mistlice leásunga forloren and forlogen má þonne scolde, Wlfst. 164, 7: 130, 6. Fela sýn forsworene and swíðe forlogene, 129, 7: 268, 27. Substitute:

breóst

Grammar
breóst, [The word occurs of all three genders, and can be used in the plural (dual) when a single person is referred to.]

the chestthoraxthe stomachwomba breastmammamamilla

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Add: the front of the chest Mid gildenum girdle his breóst wæs befangen . . . hé silf wæs begird æt his hálgum breóste (praecinctus ad mamillas zona aurea, Rev. l, 13), Ll. Th. ii. 370, 4-7. Oþ mannes breóst (cf. swyran, Shrn. 81, 13) heah, Bl. H. 127

orf-cynn

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Secgað sume gedwǽsmenn þæt sum orfcyn sý þe man bletsigan ne sceole, and cweðað þæt hí þurh bletsunge misfarað, and ðurh wyrigunge geðeóð, Hml. Th. i. 100, 30. Add

un-medume

(adj.)
Grammar
un-medume, (-ome, -eme); adj.

Unmeetunfitunworthy

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Hát mé unmedemre ða duru beón untýnede, Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 447. Ongitan hú micelne unweorþscipe se anwald brengþ ðam unmedeman, Bt. 27, 2; Fox 96, 10.

Linked entry: medume

ærn

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Gif ealo áwerd sié, genim elehtran, lege on ðá feówer sceátas ðæs ærnes and ofer ðá duru and under ðone þerxwold and under ðæt ealofæt, Lch. ii. 142, 11. Healde hine mon on óðrum ærne (húse, v. l.), Ll. Th. i. 64, 15: Bl. H. 221, 16.