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búc

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[Wright gives the accent in the last two.)

grep

(n.)
Grammar
grep, a furrow.
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Voc. ii. 82, 20 seems pl.) A ditch, drain [On] gengan grép in latrinae cuniculum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 80, 66. Grép (the MS. has the accent) cuniculum, 18, 24. Grép cuniculi (cloacarum ), 82, 20.

heardian

(v.)
Grammar
heardian, p. ode

To be or become hard, to harden

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To be or become hard, to harden Ic heardige dureo and duro, Ælfc. Gr. 35; Som. 38, 6: 37; Som. 39, 26: Herb. 1, 19; Lchdm. i. 76, 18: 2, 11; Lchdm. i. 84, 4. Ðæt wyrmþ and heardaþ ðone magan it warms and hardens the stomach, L.

Linked entry: hyrdan

óman

(n.)
Grammar
óman, pl. f.

Erysipelas, erysipelatous inflammationserysipelas.

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Voc. ii. 45, 34: 110, 52. Lǽcedómas wið ǽlces cynnes ómum, Lchdm. ii. 98, 21. In the section of which this is the heading the word frequently occurs. Of hómena stiéme cymþ eágna mist, 26, 26.

Linked entry: hóme

haga

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On ðone healdan hagan, v. 273, 6. an enclosed dwelling in a town In ciuitate Dorouernia duas possessiunculas et tertiam dimediam, id est in nostra loquella ðridda half haga, C. D. i. 243, 13.

Linked entry: hecge

ge-sund

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Th. i. 74, 10. non-material Þæt ic þín sóðfæst word gesund móte healdan, Ps. Th. 118, 20.

land-ágende

(adj.)
Grammar
land-ágende, adj.
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In. 51; Th. i. 134, 8. Landágende man, L. N. P. L. 49: 52; Th. ii. 298, 4: 10. Landágende men ic lǽrde ðæt hié heora gafol mid gehygdum águldon, Blickl. Homl. 185, 21

Linked entries: ágan land-hæbbende

teofrian

(v.)
Grammar
teofrian, p. ode
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, appoint Ðone sylfan stán ðe hine wyrhtan áwurpan nú se geworden is hwommona heágost hálig Drihten tó wealles wraðe wís teofrade (he has appointed it to be the wall's support) lapidem quem reprobaverunt aedificantes, hic factus est in caput anguli:

un-gefóg

(adj.)
Grammar
un-gefóg, (-fóh); adj.

immenseintemperateimmoderate excessive

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Skt. i. 23, 199. in a bad sense, intemperate, immoderate excessive Seó þwyre sáwul on hwílwendlícum bricum biþ ungefóh, Homl. Th. i. 408, 15. Heflgtýme leahter is ungefóh fyrwitnys, ii. 374, 3. Hé wæs mid ungefóhre gýtsunge ontend, i. 44, 5

Linked entries: ge-fóg un-gefége

ge-beorhtian

(v.)
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Is geberhtad declaratur, 3, 3. in a physical sense, to make the sight good :-- Haran geallan wið hunig gemencged. . . þá eágan gebeortigeaþ, Lch. i. 344, 5

ge-dwimorlíce

(adv.)
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Macharius cwæð: 'Ic geseó þis mǽden on menniscum gecynde, and heó nis ná áwend swá swá gé wénað . . . ac on eówrum gesihðum hit is swá gehíwod, Hml. S. 21, 474

un-eáðe

(adj.)
Grammar
un-eáðe, and un-iéðe (-éðe, -íðe, -ýðe); adj.

difficulthardtroublesomeunpleasantgrievous

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Aþelwold dráf út ða clerca of þe biscopríce, 963; Th. i. 220, 19), Chr. 995; Th. i. 244, 6. of that which is not readily done, to which one is not easily moved, and so is little done Ðú gionga, bió ðé uníðe tó clipianne and tó lǽranne do not let it be

Linked entries: un-éðe un-íðe

hwem

(n.)
Grammar
hwem, hwemm, es; m.

A cornerangle

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, if a corner be left open, so that the assailing host may have entrance through it?

Linked entry: hwæm

bucca

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Cervus vel eripes heort vel bucca (in the margin hircacervus bucheort); this is the proper reading, not that given in Wrt. Voc. i. 22, 63. v. Angl. viii. 450. Hí onsægdon deófle, swá heora þeáw wæs, buccan ( caprae ) heáfod, Gr. D. 232, 25.

ge-lóman

(n.)
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Hé hét weorpan íserne gelóman in þæs mynstres wyrtgeard, þá iserngelóman gewunelice naman wé hátaþ spadan and spitelas, 201, 19. in a collective sense, furniture Gelóma suppellex (cuncta culinae suppellex, Aid. 66, 15), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 17

ge-rinnan

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Voc. ii. 105, 15, 34: concreta, i. commixta, conjuncta, coadunata, 136, 24. Gerunnenes refrigerati, Germ. 398, 143. <b>II a.</b> figurative :-- Onn

CLÁÞ

(n.)
Grammar
CLÁÞ, cláðes; m.

CLOTH,pannusvestirnenta

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Heó ða moldan oncláðe bewand she wound the mould in a cloth, Bd. 3, 11; S. 536, 8. Dó on cláþ put on a cloth, L. M. 2, 2; Lchdm. ii. 180, 5, 10, 28: 2, 47; Lchdm. ii. 262, 2. Awring þurh cláþ wring through a cloth, 2, 53; Lchdm. ii. 274, 7.

Linked entry: clǽþ

hwider

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Ic wát hwyder (huidder, L. hwider, R.) ic gá, Jn. 8, 14: 14, 5 : Gn. C. 58 : B. 163. (a α) where the place is marked by condition existing in it :-- Tó þencenne . . . hwyder hé gelǽded sý, þe tó wíte, þe tó wuldre, Bl.

CWACIAN

(v.)
Grammar
CWACIAN, cwacigan; part. cwaciende, cwacigende ; p,ode; pp. od

QUAKE, shake, trembletremere, contremere

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Ða téþ cwaciaþ on swíðlícum cýle their teeth shall quake in the intense cold, Homl. Th. i. 132, 27: 530, 35. Ic cwacode eal on fefore I quaked all in a fever, ii. 312, 19. Cwacode eorþe contremuit terra, Ps. Spl. C. 17, 9.

gnídan

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Add Ic gníde frico, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 11. Frico ic gníde, fricui ic gnád, frictum gegniden, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 137, 15. to rub an object Hit biþ geornlic þæt mon heardlíce gníde þone hnescestan mealmstán, Ors. 4, 13; S. 212, 27. <b>I a.