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bócere

a bookmanan authora scholar

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Add: a bookman, an author, a scholar Nán bócere ne mæg, þeáh hé mycel cunne, heora naman áwrítan, Hml. S. p. 6, 67. Ðus Béda ðe bróema bóecere cuæð, Jn. 19, 37 margin. ꝥ andgit eów gecýðan on Englisc, ꝥ þá bóceras cunnon on Lýden, Angl. viii. 314, 23

camb

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Add: comb for the hair Genim þone camb þe heó ána hyre heáfod mid cemde . . . ꝥ on þám cambe geþolige, gesomnige, Lch. i. 332, 11-15. Ꝥ feax þe on þám cambe cleofige, 21. Ic his heáfod mid gambe gekamde, C. D. iv. 261, 2. crest, comb of a bird Combas

cycene

(n.)
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cycene, an.
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Add: cycen, e; f. Cicen coquina vel culina, Wrt. Voc. i. 57, 55. Ciacene cocquina, Hpt. 33, 241, 63. Þæs abbodes cicene (kicene, v. l. ), R. Ben. 85, 7. Beládod fram þǽre kycenan (cicene coquine, R. Ben. I. 65, 7) þénunge, 58, 14. Ðǽre kycenan wicþénas

dearnunga

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Hé ongan hí hatian dearnunga and wrégean tó þám cyninge, Lch. iii. 424, 19. Þeáh hé dearnunga forlicge etiamsi adulteretur, Ll. Th. ii. 156, 11. Hé forfleáh deornunga þá fóstormódor, Hml. Th. ii. 154, 30. Dernunga, Mt. L. 19, 18. Twá cynn sind martirdómes

deópe

(adv.)
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deópe, adv.
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Add: literal Hé hine hét sleán and deópe bedelfan, Chr. 1050; P. 170, 3. metaph. Ús is deópe beboden we are most solemnly bidden, Wlfst, 282, 22: Ll. Th. ii. 328, 27. Hit is forboden on hálgum bócum swýþe deópe, Shrn. 162, 26. Þá dǽde wrecan swíðe deópe

fleardian

(v.)
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To act with (wicked) folly, act wantonly, to stray in the paths of folly Sé þe þreágincga forlǽt, hé fleardað qui increpationes relinquit errat, Scint. 113, 16. Wá þám þe cyrican mid ídele sécað; þæt syndan þá ungesǽligan þe ðǽr fleardiað mid ídelre

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fóster-cild

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Add: lit. a foster-child Fóstorcild alumnum, seruum, Germ. 391, 48. Ic eom untýmende; nim míne þínene tó þínum bedde, þæt ic húru underfó sum fóstercild of hyre, Gen. 16, 2. Hér synd þá cnihtas ... þíne fóstercyld, Hml. S. 2, 243. fig. of a disciple,

ge-stregdan

(v.)
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ge-stregdan, ge-strédan; pp. strogden and -stregd(ed), -stréd(ed) (v. stregdan).
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to strew, scatter; — Tuiggo hiá ge[s]trédon (strægdun, R.) ł legdon on weg ramos sternebant in via, Mt. L. 21, 8. Þá gestródnan vel tóstencte dispersae, i. distribute. Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 70. Reste mid wyrtgemengnessum gestréded, Wlfst. 263, 6. in special

ge-þwǽrnes

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Add concord, peace Ǽlc ðára ðe hine áscádan wille from ðǽre geðwǽrnesse, hé wile forlǽtan ðǽre lufan grénnisse and forseárian on ðǽre ungeðwǽrnesse omnes, qui per discordiam separantur a viriditate dilectionis, arefiunt, Past. 359, 14. Gesibsumnesse

ge-wirdan

(v.)
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ge-wirdan, to injure, spoil.
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Take here <b>ge-wyrdan</b> in Dict., and add Eác hylpð gif mon mid eástánum onbærnedum þá meoluc gewyrð ( turns the milk ), Lch. ii. 218, 24. Ðý lǽs hié mid ðý tóle ðæt hále líc gewierden ðe hié sceoldon mid ðæt unhále áweg aceorfan dum per

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godspellere

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Add: an evangelist Isaias wítegode be Críste swilce hé godspellere wǽre, Ælfc. T. Grn. 9, 8. one of the four evangelists Mathéus se godspellere, Hml. A. 49, 1. Swá swá ús sǽde se godspellere (v. Mt. 28, 12), 78, 151. Sc̃e Marcus ðrowung þæs godspelleres

ge-witscipe

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For 'A testimony . . . S. 492, 5, 6' substitute: Witness*-*ship. Cf. ge-wita; the condition of being witness of a transaction Sculun of Gallia ríce cuman þá þe æt bysceopes hálgunge on gewitscype standan ( qui in ordinatione episcopi testes adsistant

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grápian

(v.)
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Se lǽce grápað suíðe fægre ymbútan ðæt ðæt hé sníðan wile ... Suá se wítga dyde ... mid his wordum ... hit wæs betre ðæt hé grápude mid ðǽm bíspelle ǽr ðon ðe hé cídde, suá se lǽce grápað and strácað ... ǽr ðon ðe hé stingan wille, Past. 187, 1-5. Ðeáh

heals-wyrt

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Halswyrt auris leporis, Wrt. Voc. i. 30, 57: auris leporis ł auris folia, Lch. iii. 300, col. 1: epicosium, 302, col. 1: epicurium, Wrt. Voc. i. 79, 22. Helswyrt, An. Ox. 56, 44. Heleswyrt epigurium, 393. Halswyrt narcissus, Lch. iii. 304, col. 1. Þysse

hleów

covershelterProtectiona protector

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Add: cover, shelter furnished by an object Under hrófes hleó, Rä. 28, 5. Hé holtes hleó geméteð, Ph. 429. Protection afforded by a person Hé ácenned wearð tó hleó and tó hróðre hæleða cynne, An. 567: III. Hé (Alfred) becóm tó Æðelingége, and on sumes

hliþ

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Add Siððan þú gehýrde on hliðes óran galan geác on bearwe, Bo. 21. Geworhton hí hlǽw on hliðe, sé wæs . . . wǽglíðendum wíde tó sýne, B. 3158. Beorga hliða (hlida, MS.) búgað and myltað (cf. ðá beorgas búgað and myltað, Wlfst. 137, 6) colles liquescent

ilding

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Ælding dilatio, Wrt. Voc. ii. 106, 38. Elding dilatio, i. mora, 140, 33. Næs þá nǽnig ylding tó þám nec mora, Guth. Gr. 129, 135. Gif fǽrunga cymð se ýtemesta dæg, þonne bið losod seó yldi[n]g if the lost day comes suddenly to the man who has deferred

hylc

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Substitute: a bend, winding, tortuous way; anfractus (cf. anfractum, iter tortuosum vel difficile, Corp. Gl. H. 18, 657) Stíge mistlicum hylcum dweliende (a recto) tramite errabundis anfractibus exorbitant. An. Ox. 3696 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 54. Fram stíge

maga

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maga, able.
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Add: having means Gif man þone man betýhð þe bið lǽssa maga ( a person of less ability; qui minus possit) þone se cyninges þegn, Ll. Th. i. 154, 7. Sé þe lǽsse maga (mæge, mage, v. ll.) sý ( qui minus potest, qui impotencior est [old Latin versions])

mitta

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Ne scyle nán mon blǽcern ǽlan under mittan ( sub modio), Past. 43, 3. Ðé ele ne áteórað ne melu on þínum mittan (hydria farinae non deficiet, nec lecythus olei minuetur, l Kings xvii. 14), Hml. S. 18, 63. On ǽghwelc þára fata mihte twégen mittan oþþe