Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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sige

(n.)
Grammar
sige, a fall.
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sol

(n.)
Grammar
sol, a sole (?).
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Dele the explanation

sporu

(n.)
Grammar
sporu, a heel.
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Dele (?) and add Hé spearn hine mid his spuran hunc calce pulsavit, Gr. D. 254, 27

swylt

(n.)
Grammar
swylt, a whirlpool.
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Dele: probably swyttes in the gloss is for swyftes

þeód-scipe

(n.)
Grammar
þeód-scipe, a people.
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Þanan hý sum þeódscipe columbinam háteð, Lch. i. 170, 14. Þeódscipum ongemang, ... byrgum tómiddes, Dóm. L. 282. Add

þeód-guma

Grammar
þeód-guma, For 'A chief man ... great man' substitute: A member of a þeód (v. þeód; I a),
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a retainer of a chief. Cf. dryht-guma

ge-óleccan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-óleccan, v. a.

To allure ⬩ blandiri

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To allure; blandiri Ðá hí ðé mǽst geóleccan when they most allure thee, Bt. 7, 2; Fox 18, 1

Linked entries: óleccan ge-ólǽcan

brego

Grammar
brego, (-a).
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Sum árleás cynincg, Cosdrue geháten, wæs swá upáhafen, and swá árleás brega, ꝥ hé wolde beón God, Hml. S. 27, 27. Add

cóp

(n.)
Grammar
cóp, a garment.
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Cóp ependiten, Txts. 59, 757, 760: Wrt. Voc. ii. 29, 43. Add

copp

(n.)
Grammar
copp, a cup.
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Hé gefylde copp ( spongiam ) mið æcced, Mk. L. R. 15, 36. Bolla full ł copp full, Jn. L. 19, 29. Add

eá

(n.)
Grammar
eá, a river.
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Add: gen. ié, é; dat. ié, ee; dat. pl. eáuum, éum Eá amnis, Wrt. Voc. i. 80, 56. Eá mid treówum ymbset amnis, 54, 16. Seó eá (éa, MS.) Danai, Ors. 1, 1; S. 8, 16: Nar. 35, 5. Se múþa þǽre ié (íe, MS.), Ors. 1, 1; S. 10, 13. Ælfe múþa þǽre ié, 16, 6.

cýp

(n.)
Grammar
cýp, a tub.
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For second passage substitute Byden, cýpe dolium (in Hpt. Gl. 492, 32 the same form occurs, but in another gloss of the same passage the form is cýue, An. Ox. 2, 236), An. Ox. 3657, where see note

getæl-fers

(n.)
Grammar
getæl-fers, es ; a.
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Ferse that depends on the number of feet Mid getelferse ł syxfétum catalectico uersu, An. Ox. 127

ge-tíma

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tíma, a warranter.
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Take here <b>ge-teáma, ge-týma</b> in Dict., and see teám; III

Linked entries: ge-teáma ge-týma

hát

(n.)
Grammar
hát, a promise.
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ꝥ hát fadores promissum patris, Lk. p. 11, 14. Add

ham

(n.)
Grammar
ham, a garment.
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Colobium, dictum quia longum est et sine manicis loþa, hom vel smoc, mentel, Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 37. Hom colobium, i. 288, 34. Ham, hom, Txts. 46, 167. Haam camisa, 50, 244. Ham, cemes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 13, 23. Ham, hacele subucula, An. Ox. 5316. Add

ham

(n.)
Grammar
ham, a ham.
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Add: — Hom copla, poples, Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, 80. Hamme publite, Txts. 111, 25. [H]omme poplite, 182, 81. Hamme suffragine, An. Ox. 38, 3. Gebígedum hamme curvo poplite, Hpt. Gl. 493, 75. Hommę puplites, Txts. 114, 102. Homme cambas (=gambas), Lch. i.

hol

(n.)
Grammar
hol, a covering.
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Mt. L. 5, 18 has stæfes heáfod. Add

hulc

(n.)
Grammar
hulc, a hut.
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Hulce tugurio, An. Ox. 2515. Add

lǽwed

(n.)
Grammar
lǽwed, a layman.
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Dele, and see leód

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