castel
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For native English usage, cf. ꝥ woerc castellum, Lk. L. 24, 13.] an old British or Roman earthwork (?). v. N. E. D. castle, 8 On ánne castel at Swíndúne; of ðý castele . . . tó ánne castel; of ðí castele on ánne herepað, C. D. iii. 397, 18-21
wíte-þeów
In slavery as a consequence of crime
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Gif wíteþeów Englisc mon hine forstalie, hó hine mon, L. In. 24; Th. i. 118, 6. Gif ðǽr hwylc wíteðeów man sý ðe hió geðeówede, hió gelýfð tó hyre bearnon ðæt hí hine willon lýhtan for hyre sáulle, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 132, 8.
ge-writ
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Þú bǽde mé oft Engliscra gewritena, Ælfc. T. Grn. 1, 16. Gewrita litterarum, An. Ox. 2008.
íren
Iron ⬩ a sword ⬩ blade
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Iron, an iron weapon [cf. use of steel in modern English], a sword, blade Ðæt swurd, drihtlic íren, Beo. Th. 1788; B. 892.
H
hail
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In later English the guttural h is generally represented by gh, e. g. leóht light, heáh high. Under certain circumstances h takes the place of c and g, see those letters.
for-habban
To hold in ⬩ restrain ⬩ retain ⬩ abstain ⬩ refrain ⬩ tĕnēre ⬩ contĭnēre ⬩ cŏhĭbēre ⬩ prŏhĭbēre ⬩ abstĭnēre
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Ðæt mynster óþ gyt to dæge Englisce menn ðǽr on ælþeódignysse hí forhabbaþ quod vĭdēlĭcet mŏnastērium usque hŏdie ab Anglis tĕnētur incŏlis, 4, 4; S. 571, 17. Forbeód oððe forhafa oððe bewere tungan ðíne fram yfle prŏhĭbe linguam tuam a mălo, Ps.
hús-ting
a meeting ⬩ court ⬩ tribunal
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It is found also in English Mid hundeahtigum marcan hwítes seolfres be hústinges gewihte, 329, 22. Hí [the Danes] leaddon ðone biscop tó heora hústinga, Chr. 1012; Erl. 146, 17
brogdettan
to shake ⬩ quiver ⬩ to glitter ⬩ be splendid
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Brogdetende vel cleppetende campus (can the English words be epithets applied to campus ( = aequor, cf. Corp. Gl. H. A. 314, aequor, pelagus vel campus) referring to the quivering of the surface of the water?), Txts. 49, 411.
gefá
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., þonne onscunode heó hine swylce hé wǽre hire gefá, Wlfst. 237, 27. in a legal sense, one who is party to a blood-feud as pursuer Gif þeów wealh Engliscne monnan ofslihð ... héden his þá gefán, Ll. Th. i. 150, 1.
swǽfan
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Ger. sweibón volvere, ferri, and later English swayne in :-- He (the whale that swallowed Jonah ) swengeȝ and swaynes to þe se boþem, Allit. Pm. 99, 253.
tǽcan
To shew. ⬩ to offer to view, present ⬩ to shew an object to a person so that the object may be attained by the person, to shew a way, a place, etc. ⬩ without an object, to shew the way, direct ⬩ without an object, to direct ⬩ to shew a person (dat. or acc.) the direction that must be taken, to direct, to cause a certain direction to be taken, the direction being marked, by a preposition. ⬩ to shew the course that must be followed, what should be observed, to direct, appoint, prescribe, enjoin. ⬩ to shew, indicate, signify
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Ǽfre se ðe áwent oþþe se þe tǽcþ of Lédene on Englisc ǽfre hé sceal gefadian hit swá ðæt ðæt Englisc hæbbe his ágene wísan he that makes a translation from Latin into English, or he that in teaching turns Latin into English must use idiomatic English,
bisceop-stól
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Peter), episcopal authority Cathedra is gereht bisceopstól on Englisc, and se hálga Petrus wæs áhafen on þám dæge on his bisceopstól. Þone stól hé gesæt seofon geár, Hml. S. 10, 4-7. Candelstæf candelabrum, bisceopstæf (? l. -stól) cathedra, Wrt.
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sacerd
A priest
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Suíðe ryhte ða sacerdas ( sacerdotes ) sint gehátene sacerdas, ðæt is on Englisc clǽnseras, forðæm hié sculon látteówdóm gearwian ðám geleáffulum, Past. 18, 7; Swt. 139, 14. Ða sacerdas of Leuies cynne, Deut. 27, 1, 14 : Ps. Th. 77, 64.
A
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The long Anglo-Saxon á is accented, and words containing this long or accented á are now represented by English terms, with the vowel sounded like o in no and bone.
hid
A hide of land.
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Kmbl. ii. 5, 25, seems to shew that the word is connected with híwan, hígan, and this etymology is supported by the use of familia and híd in the Latin and English versions respectively of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
fram-scipe
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Fram ðyssa munuca fram-scype (freóndscipe, v.l.) tó lǽrenne Crístes geleáfan Angelþeóde wæs sended Aidan thanks to the energy of these monks (but the Latin is: ab horum collegio monachorum) Aidan was sent to teach belief in Christ to the English, Bd.
dún-sǽte
Mountaineers, inhabitants of the mountains of Wales ⬩ montĭcŏlæ Walliæ
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Dúnsétan] gesetton this is the ordinance which the witan of the English race and the counsellors of the Welsh nation established among the inhabitants of the mountains of Wales, L. O. D. pref; Th. i. 352, 2. Be Wentsǽtum and Dúnsǽtum.
súþ
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Ger. sund- and Icel. sunn- point to the n that has been lost from the English word. ] See the compounds which follow, and Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 337, 338, for names of f
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mengan
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add: to mix one thing with another, interpose among Mé ys neód ꝥ ic menge ꝥ Lýden amang þissnm Englisce, Angl. viii. 317, 16. to mix two or more things together Heora underngereordu and ǽfengereordu hié mengdon tógædere, Bl.
hæft-néd
Captivity, thraldom, custody
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All Angelcyn ðæt búton Deniscra monna hæftniéde wæs all the English that were not held in subjection by the Danish men, Chr. 886; Erl. 84, 28. On hæftnéd lǽdan, Blickl. Homl. 79, 22. Gehweorf úre hæftnéd converte captivitatem nostram, Ps.
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