Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

deád-wille

(adj.)
Grammar
deád-wille, adj.
Entry preview:

Unproductive, barren Ðá beorgas tódǽlað ꝥ wæsmbǽre land and þæt deádwylle sand mons dividit inter vivam terram et arenas, Ors. 1, 1; S. 26, 19. Cf. cwic-wille

ge-stynþo

(n.)
Grammar
ge-stynþo, [= ge-styntþo ?]; f.
Entry preview:

Þá hé oftost tesoword spræc in his onmédlan gælpettunga, þá earnode hé mé þǽre mǽsta[n] gestynþo and þára mǽstan benda. Nap. 32. See preceding word

Linked entry: -stynþo

gop

Entry preview:

Add: The metre makes góp probable, though perhaps not quite certain: at least a short vowel occurs in the similar verse: Is þæs gores sunu, Rä. 41, 72

hege-ságol

(n.)
Grammar
hege-ságol, es; m.

A hedge-stake

Entry preview:

A hedge-stake Wearð his óðer fót be his scó fæst on ánum hegesáhle (on ánum ságle þæs geardes, v. l. in sude sepis), Gr. D. 24, 28

Linked entry: ságol

riht-willend

Entry preview:

Add: -willende Rihte hit geríst þæt hine ealle rihtwillende emnlíce herian rectos decet collaudatio, Ps. Th. 32, 1. Wuldriað ealra rihtwillenda heortan gloriamini omnes recti corde, 31, 13

swaþu

Entry preview:

Gl. 510, 57] Hí ne mihton on þám fæte nǽnige swaðe findan þæs bryces, Gr. D. 97, 23

teart

Entry preview:

On þǽre teartestan tintregun acerrimo, i. asperrimo tormento, 1946

trendan

Entry preview:

Se æppel nǽfre þæs feorr ne trenddeð (trendleð?) hé cýð hwanon hé cóm pomum licet ab arbore igitur unde reuoluitur tamen prouidit unde nascitur, Angl. i. 285. Add

un-meahtig

Grammar
un-meahtig, <b>; I.</b>
Entry preview:

Swá micclum swá þæs mannes gecynd unmihtigre wæs, swá hit wæs leóhtre tó miltsunge homo quanto fragilior in natura, tanto facilior ad veniam, Angl. vii. 4, 35. Add

eahta

Grammar
eahta, <b>; I.</b> add: <b>I a.</b> with ordinals
Entry preview:

Th. 38, arg. the abstract number eight Nim viii and sete hine on þám forman lyðe þæs þúman, Angl. viii. 326, 32

á-feallan

Entry preview:

Þǽm áfeóllan þá eágan of þǽm heáfde, Shrn. 93, 37. Se hreófla wearð nyðer áfeallen, Hml. A. 192, 320. of the approach of night. Cf. night-fall Mé áfeóll seó ǽfentíd þæs dæges, Gr.

fíftig

Entry preview:

S. 18, 250. uncertain Þæs ymbe fíftig daga (but cf. l. 22 v. supra), Hml. Th. i. 312, 10: Bl. H. 133, 14. Án sceolde fíf hund penega and óðer fíftig (fífteih, L.), Lk. 7, 41.

bísgu

Grammar
bísgu, l. bisgu,

occupationtrouble

Entry preview:

Ic wolde for þǽm bysegum mínes módes mé gerestan ego animo aeger ad requiem vado, 30, 21

filmen

(n.)
Grammar
filmen, The gender varies, with meaning foreskin it is masc. or neut., otherwise fem.

skinmembranescaleskinshellhuska crack

Entry preview:

Be þæs miltes filmene, 166, 13. Filmena membra[na]rum (laterna membranarumtenui velamine facta, Aid. 142, 6), Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 51: 57, 4.

Linked entries: film fylmen

háte

Entry preview:

Ðonne þǽre sunnan scíma hátast scínþ, Bt. 5, 2 ; F. 10, 29. of glowing iron. Cf. hát; 2 Lecgað ðá ísenan clútas háte glówende tó his sídan, Hml. Th. I. 424, 35.

án-mód

Entry preview:

Ðá geseah se cyning þæt hí ánmóde wǽron, Hml. Th. i. 570, 27. Ánmódde unanimes, Ps. Srt. 67, 7. Add

á-lesan

Entry preview:

Monig óþer tácu mæg on þǽre béc gemétan swá hwylc swá hié rǽdeð, þe wé þás of álǽson (-lésan, v. l.) de quo haec excerpsimus, Bd. 4, 10; Sch. 400, 21

bísgung

Grammar
bísgung, l. bisgung,
Entry preview:

Þeáh hé mid þǽre manigfealdnysse þǽre synne bysgunge ábysgod sý licet multiplicitate negotii peccati suspensus sit, Ll. Th. ii. 176, 8.

écelíce

(adv.)
Entry preview:

Þæt hí écelíce árǽrede synd that they will never die after their resurrection, Hml. Th. i. 440, 26, 28. Sý him wuldor á on ealra worulda woruld écelíce, Hml. A. 72, 181. Beóð welige hwílwendlice, þæt gé écelíce wǽdlion, Hml. Th. i. 64, 16

for-gangan

(v.)

to forgoabstain from

Entry preview:

to forgo, abstain from Forgang þæt ic þé forbeóde. Hwæt mæg hit beón þæt þú forgán sceole? Ic ðé secge, forgang þú ánes treówes wæstm, Hml. Th. i. 14, 8-10. Forgang hwít abstine te ab albo, Ll. Th. ii. 132, 5.

Linked entry: for-gán