eald-dagas
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Be ðám ðe hit of ealddagum witan gerǽddan, Angl. ix. 259, 6. ꝥ > On ealddagum wæs án hús árǽred Gode tó lofe binnan þǽre byrig Gerusalem, Wlfst. 277, 13. Add
hors-weard
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Add: Perhaps as horsweard is coupled with heáfodweard (q. v.), the duty of the geneát, which has this name, was the care of the lord's horses when out on an expedition
sæc
hostile, offensive, hateful ⬩ guilty,
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(-sæc) guilty, charged with guilt. and
Linked entry: bí-sæc
úrig-feþera
Wet-feathered, with dewy plumage
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Wet-feathered, with dewy plumage Earn úrigfeþera, Judth. Thw. 24, 27; Jud. 210. Úrigfeðera earn, Elen. Kmbl. 57; El. 29. Úrigfeðra, 221; El. 111. Úrigfeþra, Exon. Th. 307, 17; Seef. 25
torn-wracu
Grievous revenge
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Grievous revenge Gé hér áteóþ in ða tornwræce (the destruction with which the evil spirits threatened Guthlac if he remained in his hermitage) sigeleásne síð, Exon. Th. 120, 16; Gú. 272
symbel-calic
A chalice
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Ic an Ðeódréd mín wíte massehakele ðe ic on Pauie bouhte and simbelcalice, Chart. Th. 515, 18
Linked entry: calic
clipur
A CLAPPER of a bell ⬩ tintinnabuli vel campanæ malleus
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So with the touch of the rope the band moves the clapper, Wanl. Catal. 109, col. 2, 16-20
fóre-bétan
To make full amends to or for anyone or anything ⬩ compensāre prō ălĭquo
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To make full amends to or for anyone or anything; compensāre prō ălĭquo Ládige mid his mágan, ðe fǽhþe móton mid-beran, oððe fórebétan let him clear himself with his kinsmen, who must bear the feud with him, or make full amends for it, L.
Linked entry: fór-bétan
hweorfa
a joint ⬩ a whorl
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Nim ðone hweorfan ðe wíf mid spinnaþ bind on his sweoran take the whorl that women spin with, bind it on his neck, L. M. 3, 6; Lchdm. ii. 310, 21
Linked entries: hweorf hweorf-bán hwerfa
of-beátan
To kill by beating ⬩ to beat to death ⬩ to beat to pieces
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Sume wǽron mid wǽpnum ofslagene óðre mid swipum ofbeátene some were slain with weapons, others scourged to death, Homl. Th. i. 542, 27
ge-wítnian
To punish ⬩ chastise
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On Noes dagum gewítnode God manna gálnysse mid wætere ... why were the sinful punished with water? In Noah's days God punished men's wantonness with water..., Boutr. Scrd. 22, 30: Gen. 20, 18.
stíp
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Milton's 'the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat Hath lost us Heaven'), fall as the meaning, and compares with Icel. steypa to cast down, overthrow ; steyping an overthrow, Cf. also Norweg
Linked entry: stúpian
þreá-nídla
Painful constraint ⬩ restraint of punishment ⬩ oppression
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Hé þeóstra þegnas þreániédlum bond he bound the ministers of darkness with penal restraints, Exon. Th. 143, 29; Gú. 668
Linked entry: -nídla
ymbeaht
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as if the form had been connected with eahtian to consider, and the word were regarded as a compound, ymb-eaht. See Engl. Stud. xi. 492
efen-eald
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Lǽswede heó sceápum mid óþrum mægdenum hire efnealdum ( with other maidens of like age with herself ), Shrn. 101, 16. Heó tǽhte þám mægdene hire efenealde mægdenu coaevas ei puellas ostendit, Gr. D. 287, 13.
ge-horwian
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Gé mid horu speówdon on his andwlitan El. 297.] with moral impurity Gálnyss gehorwigende libido sordidans Hy. S. 5, 5.
ofer-lecgan
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Oferlecge mid línene cláðe, 182, 4. to affect as with a superincumbent weight, oppress Gif hí hió sylfe mid swíðlicre druncennysse oferlecgað, Hml. A. 147, 73.
on-bútan
About
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Skt. i. 23, 651. of time Onbútan Martines mæssan and gyt lator, Chr. 1089; Erl. 226, 19. with ðǽr Æt Hocneratúne and ðǽr onbútan, 917; Erl. 102, 14. Ofer eall ðǽr onbútan, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 490, 660
ofer-irnan
to pass by running, cross ⬩ to run over, go over a subject ⬩ to come upon with violence, overwhelm, to come upon with surprise
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Wé wyllaþ scortlíce oferyrnan ða dígelystan word, 202, 29. to come upon with violence, overwhelm, to come upon with surprise Seó sǽ oferarn Pharao and ealle his crætu, ii. 194, 27. Mé slǽp oferarn cum mihi somnus obrepsisset, Bd. 5, 9; S. 622, 33
tó-swellan
To swell out ⬩ grow big
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Of ðám tóswollenum fótum (feet swollen with dropsy), Homl. Th. i. 86, ll