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burh-waru

(n.)
Grammar
burh-waru, burg-waru; gen. dat. e; acc. e, u; f.
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Bos. 21, 10: Chr. 1013; Th. 271, 28, col. 1. Wæs mycel menegu ðære burhware mid hyre erat turba civitatis multa cum illa, Lk. Bos. 7, 12.

CANDEL

(n.)
Grammar
CANDEL, candell, condel, condell, e; f: candel, es; n. A CANDLE; candela, lampas = λαμπάς
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Glád ofer grúndas Godes condel beorht God's bright candle glided over the grounds, Chr. 937; Th. 202, 16, col. 1; Æðtelst. 15: Exon. 51b; Th. 179, 20; Gú. 1264: 72a; Th. 269, 23; Jul. 454.

Linked entry: condel

Ceortes íg

(n.)
Grammar
Ceortes íg, Certes íg, e;. f. [Hovd. Matt. West. Certesie]

CHERTSEYCertesia

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Hér drǽfde Eádgár cyng ða preóstas of Ceortes íge [Certes ige, 223, col. 3] in this year, A. D. 964, king Edgar drove the priests from Chertsey, Chr. 964; Th. 222, 5, 10

Linked entry: Certes íg

leác-tric

Grammar
leác-tric, leáh-tric, es; m.
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Ðá geseah heó ǽnne leáhtric ðá lyste hí ðæs and hine genam and forgeat ðæt heó hine mid Cristes ródetácne gebletsode then she saw a lettuce and had a longing for it, and took it and forgot to bless it with the sign of the cross, iii. 336, col. 1.

Linked entry: cærse

lyb-corn

(n.)
Grammar
lyb-corn, es; n.
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'A grain of purgative effect, especially the seeds of various euforbias, probably also of some of the gourds, as momordica elaterium, cucumis colocynthis,' Cockayne Lchdm. ii. 397, col 2 Libbcorn catharticum, Wrt. Voc. 67, 8.

ge-drípan

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Germ. 391, col. 2, 18

pytt

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</b> figurative :-- Ðæt hí for hira úpáhæfennesse befeallen on ðone pytt ofermétta ipso elationis suae barathro devorantur, Past. 439, 3. v. col-, wíðig-, wulf-pytt

scearu

(n.)
Grammar
scearu, e; f.

The share pubes

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Schere pubes, 246, col. 2. Schore, privy part of a man pubes, Prompt. Parv. 448. v. Lchdm. ii. Glossary

stycce

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Þurh sticceo per cola [cf. Ald. 4, 36: Grammaticorum regulas et orthographorum disciplinas . . . pedibus poeticis compactas per cola (per cola, i. membra þurh lim, An. Ox. 201)], Wrt. Voc. ii. 69, 8. <b>II a.

ǽc

(n.)
Grammar
ǽc, e; f.

An oakquercus

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Cod. Dipl. iii. p. 78, 7

be-fýlan

(v.)
Grammar
be-fýlan, -fílan; p. -fýlede; pp. -fýled,-fíled, -fýld; v. trans. [be, fúl foul]

To BEFOULpollutedefile make filthy inquinarefœdare contaminare

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P. 45; Th. ii. 384, 11: Basil. admn. 7; Norm. 48, 23 : Lchdm. iii. 208, 7: Cot. 104

Linked entry: be-fílan

eorþ-hnutu

(n.)
Grammar
eorþ-hnutu, -nutu, e; f.

An earth-nut būnium flexuōsum

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An earth-nut; būnium flexuōsum Of ðam cumbe in eorþnutena þorn from the combe to the earth-nut thorn, Cod. Dipl. Apndx. 308; A. D. 875; Kmbl. iii. 399, 7

Linked entry: hnutu

gærs-tún-díc

(n.)
Grammar
gærs-tún-díc, es; m.

A grass-meadow-dikevallum circa prātum ductum

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A grass-meadow-dike; vallum circa prātum ductum On gærstúndíc súðeweardne to the south of the grass-meadow-dike, Cod. Dipl. Apndx. 441; A. D. 956; Kmbl. iii. 438, 4

eallneg

(adv.)
Grammar
eallneg, adv.

Alwayssemper

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Cot

Linked entry: ealneg

masc

(n.)
Grammar
masc, max, es; n.

A mesha nettoil

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A mesh, a net, toil Ic wyrpe max míne on eá pono retia mea in amne, Coll. Monast, Th. 23, 9: 21, 13. On ðám maxum in retibus, 21, 19

Linked entries: mæscre max

ge-tyhtan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-tyhtan, p. te; pp. ed

To educateteachinstructerŭdīredŏcēreinstruĕre

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Byþ his heorte getrymed and getyhted confirmātum est cor ejus, 111, 7

Linked entry: ge-tihtan

ymbe

(n.)
Grammar
ymbe, (imbe), es; m. (?)
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. ¶ Imbæs dæl occurs Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 176, 20

eorþ-gemet

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For Cot. 95 substitute

land-folc

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Cóm ꝥ landfolc tó þe þǽr tó láfe wæs þǽr heora hláfordes líc læg, Hml. S. 32, 134. Hé wunode on þǽre byrig and bodode þám landfolce, 29, 83. Add

breóst-rocc

(n.)
Grammar
breóst-rocc, es; m. [breóst. rocc
clothing
]

clothing Breast-cloth thorax

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Cot. 163. Stíðe and ruge breóstroccas [MS. breóst-rocces] stiff and rough breast-clothes; renones, Ælfc. Gl. 63; Som. 68, 114; Wrt. Voc. 40, 24