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bisceop-wyrt

(n.)
Grammar
bisceop-wyrt, biscop-wyrt, biscep-wyrt, e; f.

BISHOP'S-WORT, bishop's weed, betony, vervain, marsh-mallowammi = άμμι [ammi majus, Lin.], betonica, verbena, hibiscum = ίβίσκos

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[wyrt a wort, herb, plant] BISHOP'S-WORT, bishop's weed, betony, vervain, marsh-mallow; ammi = άμμι [ammi majus, Lin.], betonica, verbena, hibiscum = ίβίσκos Wyrc to drence æscþrotu, betonice, bisceopwyrt make into a drink ash-throat, betony, bishop's-wart

Linked entries: biscep-wyrt biscop-wyrt

wurma

(n.)
Grammar
wurma, wyrma, an; m.: wurme, an; f.

A shell-fish from which a purple dye was obtained, a purple dyewoad, a plant from which a dye is got

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A shell-fish from which a purple dye was obtained, a purple dye; also woad, a plant from which a dye is got Wurma murex, wurma, weoloc murice, Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 64, 62. Wurma, reád godwebb ostrum, 64, 10. Wyrma ostrum, i. 286, 34.

leáf

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Add: a leaf of a tree, plant, &c. Leáf folium, rind cortix Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 77. Nǽfre brosniað leáf under lyfte, Ph. 39. Lytle hwíle leáf beóð gréne, Sal. 312. Hleófa (leáf, R.) folia Mt. L. 24, 32.

hát

(adj.)
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hát, adj.

Hot, fervent, fervid, fierce [of pain, punishment, etc.]a fever

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Ðeós wyrt byþ cenned on hátum stówum this plant is produced in hot places, Herb. 115, 1; Lchdm. i. 228, 6. Hé háte lét teáras geótan he let hot tears gush forth, Exon. 48 a; Th. 165, 14; Gú. 1029.

grówan

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Add: of a plant, to shew vigorous life, flourish, be green Florescit bléwþ, crescit gréwþ, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 48. Þeós wyrt byð seldon funden, ne hý man gecnáwan ne mæg búton ðonne heó gréwð and bléwð, Lch. i. 98, 4.

hwer

(n.)
Grammar
hwer, es; m.

A kettlepotbasincaldroncooking-vessel

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Áwyl ða wyrte on hwere boil the plants in a pot, L. M. 1, 32; Lchdm. ii. 76, 18. Ǽnne sylfrene hwer on v pundon a silver basin of five pounds, Chart. Th. 558, 35.

ymb-settan

(v.)
Grammar
ymb-settan, p. te.
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Ða heargas ðara deófolgylda mid heora hegum ðe hí ymbsette wǽron fana idolorum cum septis quibus erant circumdata Bd. 2, 13; S. 516, 39. to plant with something. v. ymb-seten Ic embsette consero Wrt. Voc. ii. 133, 56.

hara

(n.)
Grammar
hara, an; m.

A hare

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Se hara mid ðysse wyrte hyne sylfne gelácnaþ the hare doctors itself with this plant, Herb. 114, 1; Lchdm. i. 226, 22: Med. ex Quadr. 4; Lchdm. i. 342, 14, 16, 18.

twǽde

(adj.)
Grammar
twǽde, adj.
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Dó ðæs swefles swilcan ðara wyrta twǽde to the quantity of sulphur put twice as much of the plants, 78, 8. Se biscop and ða hígen áhten twǽde ðæs wuda and ðæs mæstes, Chart. Th. 70, 29. Se cyning áh twǽdne dǽl (twegen dǽlas, MSS. B.

Linked entry: þridda

wǽpned-mann

(n.)
Grammar
wǽpned-mann, es; m.

a malea mana male

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Hiora wíf ofslógan ealle ða wǽpnedmen ðe him on neáweste wǽron, Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 48, 1, 6, 8. of plants, a male Gif man scyle mugcwyrt tó lǽcedóme habban, ðonne nime man ða reádan wǽpnedmen and ða grénan wífmen, Lchdm. iii. 72, 20.

bed

Grammar
bed, bedd.

a bedcoucha surface on which something rests?

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Similar entries v. grund-bed. of ground where plants grow. [O. H. Ger. betti areola.] of ground occupied by insects. Similar entries v. ǽmet-bed, bed-gerid. See D. D. bed = ant-hill

híw-cúþ

domesticfamiliar

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D. 71, 11. of things Ðeós wyrt ys culfran swíðe híwcúð (doves are very fond of this plant), þanon hý sum þeódscipe columbinam háteð, Lch. i. 170, 13.

fród

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Voc. ii. 68, 38. of persons, animals, or plants Hæfde fród hæle nigon hund wintra and hundseofontig tó, Gen. 1222. Fród cyning, hár hilderinc, B. 1306. Fród guma sægde fela geongum, Fä. 53. Ðraca sceal on hlǽwe fród, Gn. C. 27.

boh

Grammar
boh, l. bóh,

sprig

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Þegnas mǽton mílpaðas meára bógum, Exod. 171. bough of a tree, sprig, sprout of a plant : Bóg frondus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 24. Bóh ramus, i. 80, 5. Bóga, 33, 16. Píntreówes bóh pini stipitem (.i. ramum), An. Ox. 2223.

grénnes

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ðǽm botle ðǽr ðǽr wé timbran willen, ðeáh wé hí for hrædlíce tó ðǽm weorce dón me mægen for grénnesse, ǽr ðǽm ðe hí ádrúgien ( tamen non repente in fabrica (lignum) ponitur, ut prius vitiosa ejus viriditas exsiccetur ), Past. 445, 2. a green thing, plant

gærs

herbagea herb, plant the bladepasture, grazing the grass-covered ground

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Basilius underféng þæt gærs ðus cweðende: 'Ðú ús sealdest nýtena andlyfene,' Hml, Th. i. 450, 5-8. a herb, plant Mára allum wyrtum ł græsum (grasum, R.) majus omnibus holeribus, Mk.

á-springan

(v.)

to be emittedto ariseto rush upburst forthto spring,to spring upcome into existenceto spread (intrans. ) outto run outceasefail

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Chr. 1067;P. 202, 19. of plant-growth Hit út áspringþ on leáfum, Bt. 34, 10;F. 150, 4.

Linked entry: á-sprungen

wád

(n.)
Grammar
wád, es; n.

Woad,

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Woad, a plant much used for dyeing, which circumstance may account for the appearance of the word as a gloss to some of the following Latin words Ðis wád hic sandyx, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 69; Zup. 72, 14.

Linked entry: waad

ge-weaxan

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Add: to grow, be produced. of animals or plants Eall se dǽl sé þe þæs treówes on twelf mónþum geweaxeþ (-wexð, v. l. ), Bt. 34, 10; F. 150, 1. Swá hwá swá gebyrgde þæs on þám beáme geweóx, Gen. 483: Rä. 78, 6.

ge-springan

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Ex. 196. of energetic speech, to burst forth in words In ðæt mearda of heofne cwóm loceteð ł gesprang (cf. gesprintan) : 'In fruma waes word' in illud prooemium e coelo veniens eructavit: 'In principio erat verbum,' Mt. p. 9, 7. to grow as a plant (lit