CRABBA
A CRAB, crayfish ⬩ cancer ⬩ a sign of the zodiac ⬩ cancer ⬩ signum zodiaci ⬩ cancer
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Hwæt féhst ðú on sæ? Crabban and lopystran quid capis in mari? Cancros et polypodes Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 11. a sign of the zodiac, cancer; signum zodiaci, cancer .
á-tǽsan
To tear with a weapon
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Gif ðú wǽre on fell scoten oððe ... on flǽsc ... oððe ... on lið, nǽfre ne sý ðín líf átǽsed, Lch. iii. 54, 8.
Ælfred
Alfred the wise, king of Northumbria for twenty years
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He was educated in Ireland for the Church, and was the first literaryy Féng Ælfred [MS.
feorran
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Fela wítegan bodedon Drihten tóweardne, sume feorran, sume neán, 358, 7. Hé fela þing feorran wiste ǽr þan þe hit gewurde, Hml. S. 31, 1009
fród
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Gomol bið snoterost, fyrngeárum fród, sé þe ǽr fela gebídeþ, Gn. C. 12. Fénix byrneð fyrngeárum fród, Ph. 219. Hæfde v. and syxtig and nigon hund eác nihtgerímes wine fród wintres, Gen. 1194.
frécennes
Danger ⬩ peril ⬩ hazard ⬩ mischief ⬩ harm ⬩ perīcŭlum ⬩ discrīmen ⬩ mălum
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Se hálga wer in ða ǽrestan ældu gelufade frécnessa fela the holy man in his early age loved much mischief, Exon. 34 a; Th. 108, 31; Gú. 81
munuc
A monk
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Be ðám ðe munecum heora feoh bútan leáfe befǽstaþ. Gif mon óðres monnes munuce feoh óðfæste, bútan ðæs munuces hláfordes léfnesse, L. Alf. pol. 20; Th. i. 74, 13-16. Swá swá dafnaþ munuce, Coll. Monast. Th. 35, 5.
Linked entry: munec
neán
from near ⬩ near ⬩ close at hand ⬩ nearly ⬩ about
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Ðá wæs neán seó syxte tíd erat autem fere hora sexta, 23, 44. Wé ðæs hereweorces neán myndgiaþ we bear that warlike deed in mind nearly as it happened, have an accurate remembrance of it, Elen. Kmbl. 1311; El. 657
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fore
before ⬩ in front of ⬩ at the head of ⬩ before ⬩ for ⬩ from ⬩ through ⬩ because of ⬩ on account of ⬩ for ⬩ from ⬩ through ⬩ in place of ⬩ instead of ⬩ for the sake of ⬩ on behalf of ⬩ to the honour of ⬩ of ⬩ about ⬩ before ⬩ into the presence of
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.); tóð fore (for, v. l.) téð, honda wið honda, fét fore fét, bærning fore bærninge, Ll. Th. i. 48, 20-22.
Linked entries: fóre-beón fóre-bétan fóre-gilpan
a-sceádan
To separate ⬩ disjoin ⬩ exclude ⬩ distinguish ⬩ separare ⬩ segregare
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Ðæt eálond is feor asceáden fram Hibernia insula ab Hibernia procul secreta est, Bd. 4, 4; S. 570, 40
a-sceótan
To shoot forth ⬩ shoot ⬩ shoot out ⬩ fall ⬩ jaculari ⬩ cum impetu erumpere
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Ða eágan of his heáfde ascuton, and on eorþan feóllan the eyes shot out of his head, and fell on the earth, Bd. 1, 7; S. 478, 38
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feorh-bealo
Life-bale ⬩ mortal affliction ⬩ deadly evil ⬩ vītæ mălum ⬩ lētāle mălum
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Ic me ðæt feorhbealo feor aswápe I sweep that deadly evil far from me, Exon. 106 b; Th. 405, 20; Rä. 24, 5: Beo, Th. 314; B. 156. Ðǽr wæs hondsció, feorhbealu fǽgum there was [his] glove, deadly evil to the fated, 4160; B. 2077: 5067; B. 2537
irfe-land
heritable land
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Land that passes as an inheritance, heritable land Ic cýðo hú mín willa is ðet mín ærfelond fére ðe ic gebohte on ǽce ærfe I declare how my will is that my heritable land shall go, that I bought in perpetual inheritance, Chart. Th. 476, 12.
þurh-gán
to go over or through ⬩ to pass through ⬩ pierce ⬩ to penetrate ⬩ permeate ⬩ pervade
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Th. ii. 502, 11. of a weapon, to pass through, pierce Hé sette his swurdes ord tógeánes his innoðe, and feól him on uppon, ðæt him ðurheode (or him ðurh eode, under þurh, B. I 1. ), Homl. Th. ii. 480, 15.
un-dearninga
Without secrecy or concealment ⬩ openly
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Gekýþe hé ðæt hé ðæt feoh, undeornunga his cúðan ceápe in wíc gebohte, L. H. E. 16; Th. i. 34, 10
wiþ-foran
Before
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Before Hé feaht him wiðforan, Jos. 8, 22.
camp
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Paulus, sóhte þone feld þæs campes (certaminis campum), 110, 16. Fulfremede campe (compe) perfecto agone, Bd. 1, 7; Sch. 27, 22. Hé wolde deófol gelaþian tó campe wiþ hine, Bl. H. 29, 20.
cwellere
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Aurelianus wæs wælhreáw cwellere crístenra manna, and fela belífode gelýfedra manna, Hml. Th. ii. 308, 4. Hé ( St. Paul ) wæs crístenra manna éhtere ǽr and cwellere, Shrn. 58, 27. Ðǽs cwelres hand . . . ðǽm cwelre syllan, 129, 9-12.
láþ
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Gif hit ꝥ wǽre, swá hit feor þám sý, ꝥ þín dohtor on ǽnig láð ásliden wǽre, Hml. S. 33, 223. Ðá fugelas ús nǽnige láðe ne yfle ne wǽron aues non nobis perniciem ferebant Nar. 16, 18. Add
scearpe
A scarification
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Stande on heáfde, ásleá him mon fela scearpena on ðám scancan, ðonne gewít út ðæt átter þurh ða scearpan, 154, 2-4.