irfe
Inheritance ⬩ property
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property to warranty, and demand of the hand which has that property, that he make the chattel uncontestable to him; or prove that the dead man never owned that property, L.
giddian
To sing ⬩ recite ⬩ speak
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Gyddedon hæleþ in healle hwæt seó hand write heroes in hall discussed what did the hand write, Cd. 210; Th. 261, 18; Dan. 728
Linked entries: geddian ge-gyddian gyddian
ge-clyccan
To bend, incurve the hand
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To bend, incurve the hand Ná sý ástreht hand þín tó nimene; heó sý tó syllene gecliht non sit porrecta manus tua ad captandum; sit ad dandum collecta, Scint. 99, 2
sele
A hall ⬩ house ⬩ dwelling
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Geseah hé engles hand in sele (Belshazzar's hall) wrítan, 261, 16; Dan. 727. Hié tó sele (the Danish king's hall), gangan cwómon, Beo. Th. 652; B. 323. In sele ðam heán, 1431; B. 713: (Hygelac's hall) 3973; B. 1984.
Linked entry: burn-sele
heofon-heall
A heavenly hall
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A heavenly hall Ne hí swá fúle ne móton intó his fægeran heofonhealle nor may they so foul enter into his fair heavenly hall, L. Ælfc. P. 41; Th. ii. 382, 10
herigend-lic
praiseworthy ⬩ approbation ⬩ excellent
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Swá swá sume men gewuniaþ ꝥ hí singað mid hergendlicum cræfte ǽr há etan (the translator has misunderstood the Latin, which is: Sicut quidam ludendi (laudandi seems to have been read) arte victum solent quaerere), Gr. D. 62, 13
Linked entries: heregend-líc heregend-líc bodiend-lic
haccian
To hack ⬩ concidere, secando comminuere ⬩ to hew, chop ⬩ to hack, hoe ⬩ to chop, cleave
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To hack; concidere, secando comminuere, Lye
lemp-healt
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Substitute: Limp-halt (v. N. E. D. s. v.), halting Laempihalt, lemphihalt, lemp-halt, lemphald lurdus (cf. lordicare dorso incurvato incedere, Migne), Txts. 74, 589. Lemphealt, Wrt. Voc. ii. 71, 3: 51, 20
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healf-deád
Half dead, palsied on one side
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Half dead, palsied on one side Wið ðære healf-deádan ádle for the half-dead disease [hemiplegia] L. M. 2, 59; Lchdm. ii. 280, 1: L. M. 1, 79; Lchdm. ii. 152, 2
ge-clǽnsian
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Ox. 40, 18. to clear, prove innocent of a charge Þá witan gerehton þæt heó sceolde hire fæder hand geclǽnsian ... and heó ... geclǽnsude hire fæder þæs ǽgiftes ( she cleared her father of the charge that he had not repaid the money ), Cht.
dyþhomar
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dýþ-homar. v. dúþ-hamor; dýþ
sporu
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a spike, v. hand-, hún-sporu
hǽriht
Hairy ⬩ crinitus, setosus,
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Hairy; crinitus, setosus, Cot. 186, Lye
cófincel
A hand-mill ⬩ pistrilla
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A hand-mill; pistrilla Cot. 155
ban-fáh
adorned with bone
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adorned with bone (of a hall)
wind-gerest
A windy resting-place (?) ⬩ a hall open to the winds (?)
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, a hall open to the winds (?) Hé gesyhð sorhcearig on his suna búre wínsele wéstne, windgereste (wind gereste, MS. : windge reste, Grein) he sees the hall deserted, the resting-place of men open to the winds (?
bel-hús
A BELL-HOUSE ⬩ campanile vel campanarium ⬩ turris in qua pendent tintinnabulum vel tintinnabula
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was a bell or bells to summon the inhabitants to prayers, and for other purposes; Du Cange, fol. 1681, col. 712; CAMPANA, col. 708 Gif ceorl hæfde fíf hída ágenes landes cirican and cycenan, bell-hús ... ðonne wæs he þegen-rihtes weorþe if a freeman had
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be-hófian
To have need of ⬩ to need ⬩ require ⬩ egere ⬩ indigere ⬩ Impersonally ⬩ it BEHOVETH ⬩ it concerns ⬩ it is needful or necessary ⬩ oportet ⬩ interest
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To have need of, to need, require; egere, indigere. Impersonally, it BEHOVETH, it concerns, it is needful or necessary; oportet, interest Mycel wund behófaþ mycles lǽcedómes a great wound has need of a great remedy Bd. 4, 25; S. 599, 40.
Linked entries: a-behófian hófian be-héfe bi-hófian
ciric-griþ
Church-peace, right of sanctuary ⬩ ecclesiæ pax
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A.] swá swá hit betst stód let every church-peace stand as it has best stood, L. Edg. i. 5; Th. i. 264, 25: L. E. G. 1; Th. i. 166, 20.
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