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BIRCE

(n.)
Grammar
BIRCE, ean; f: berc, beorc, byrc, e; f.

A birch-treebetula alba

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A birch-tree; betula alba Genim bircean take of the birch-tree, L. M. 1, 36; Lchdm. ii. 86, 7: Wrt. Voc. 285, 22

Linked entries: byrc beorc berc

hrepian

(v.)
Grammar
hrepian, hreopian; p. ode

To touchtreat

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Wé ne hrepodon ðone traht we did not treat the exposition, i. 104, 6. Ne hrepa ðú ðæs treówes wæstm touch not the fruit of the tree, 14, 1: Homl. Swt. 5, 302.

beorc

(n.)
Grammar
beorc, e; f.

a birch-treebetula

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a birch-tree; betula. the Anglo-Saxon Rune ᛒ = b, the name of which letter in Anglo-Saxon is beorc a birch-tree, hence this Rune not only stands for the letter b, but for beorc a birch-tree, as, ᛒ byþ blǽda leás a birch-tree is void of fruit Hick.

Linked entries: byrc B berc birce

æppelder

(n.)
Grammar
æppelder, æppeldor

an apple-tree

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an apple-tree

beóce

(n.)

a beech-tree

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a beech-tree

ÆSP

(n.)
Grammar
ÆSP, e; f: æspe, an; f.

An ASP or aspen-treepopulus tremula

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An ASP or aspen-tree; populus tremula Æspan rind the rind of the asp-tree, L. M. 1, 47; Lchdm, ii. 116, 1

Linked entry: æps

BOX

(n.)
Grammar
BOX, es; m? n?

The BOX-treebuxusbuxus sempervirensthe box-tree or box-wood

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The BOX-tree; buxus = πύξos, buxus sempervirens, Lin Box buxus, Ælfc. Gl. 47; Som. 65, 39; Wrt. Voc, 33, 36: 79, 71. Æt ðam boxe, of ðam boxe at the box-tree, from the box-tree, Cod. Dipl. 1102; A. D. 931; Kmbl. v. 195, 14

Linked entry: box-treów

elle

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elder*-*tree

ælr

(n.)

an alder-treealnus

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an alder-tree; alnus

æppuldre

(n.)
Grammar
æppuldre, æpuldre, an; f.

An apple-treemalus

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An apple-tree; malus

cuic-beám

(n.)
Grammar
cuic-beám, es ; m.

A juniper-tree juniperus

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A juniper-tree ; juniperus

apuldur

(n.)

an apple-tree

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an apple-tree

firgen-beám

(n.)

a mountain-tree

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a mountain-tree

æps

(n.)

a fir-tree.

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a fir-tree

syll

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Þreó gyrda tó þillianæ, and .iii. sylla tó lyccanne tres virgatas plancas ponere, et tres suliuas, id est, ires magnas trabes supponere, C. D. B. iii. 659, 5, and often. Add

un-ámetgod

(adj.)
Grammar
un-ámetgod, adj.
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Unmeasured, not having determined limits Swá swá ná unscapene ne ðrý unámetgode, ac unámetgode sicut non (tres) increati nec tres inmensi, sed (unus increalus el unus) inmensus, Ps. Rdr. 298, 12

Linked entry: á-metgod

apelder-tún

(n.)
Grammar
apelder-tún, es; m.

An apple-tree garden

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An apple-tree garden

æppel-þorn

(n.)

an apple-thorna crab-tree

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an apple-thorn, a crab-tree

epse

(n.)

an asp-tree,

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an asp-tree, Som. Ben. Lye

gespan

(n.)

the tamarisk tree;myrica,

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the tamarisk tree; myrica, Cot. 131