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á-teorian

(v.)

to get exhaustedfaint,to lose heart or energyget wearyfaintto get exhaustedcome to an endfailbe wantingto be defective

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Se móna þe byð ádwǽsced oððe áteorod III. Kl. Augusti, Angl. viii. 316, 38. Ne biþ áteored non auferetur (sceptrum). An. Ox. 432. Ðín mægn is áterod, Hml. S. 3, 611. Áteoredum exhausta, Hpt.

smiþ

(n.)
Grammar
smiþ, es; m, A smith, a worker in metals or
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Monast. Th. 30, 29. Smiþ faber vel cudo. Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 26: faber, 286, 74. Fýres god, helle smiþ Vulcanus, ii. 95, 7.

Linked entry: helle-smiþ

þeód-land

(n.)
Grammar
þeód-land, es; n.
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an inhabited district, a region, country Fromcyme folde weorðeþ, þeódlond monig, ðíne gefylled, Cd. Th. 106, 4; Gen. 1766.

ge-nídan

(v.)
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Gif þeów mon þeówne tó nédhǽmde genéde, Ll. Th. i. 78, 14. Git hine mon tó genédan scyle, 60, 13. Gif hwá tó hwæðrum þissa (áð and wed) geniéd sié, 60, 4.

gildan

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Th. i. 296, 5. to pay wergild for a slain person Gif wíteþeów hine forstalie, hó hine mon and ne gylde his hláforde. Gif hine mon ofsleá, ne gylde hine mon his mǽgum, Ll. Th. i. 118, 6-8.

CROP

(n.)
Grammar
CROP, cropp, es; m.

a sprout or top of a herb, flower, berry, an ear of corn, a bunch of berries or blooms, cluster cymathyrsusspica, corymbusracermus, uvathe CROP or craw of a bird vesicula gutturisa kidney rien

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Croppas racemos Mone B. 2572 Croppum uvis 3836 the CROP or craw of a bird; vesicula gutturis Wurp ðone cropp and ða feðera wiðæftan ðæt weofod vesiculam gutturis et plumas projiciet prope altare Lev. 1, 16. a kidney; rien Crop rien Ælfc.

Linked entry: croppa

DRÉFAN

(v.)
Grammar
DRÉFAN, part. dréfende; p. dréfde; pp. dréfed

To disturb, agitate, disquiet, vex, trouble commovēre, turbāre, conturbāre, tribulāre, contristāre

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Dréfaþ conturbant, Mone B. 2613. Ne lagu dréfde it disturbed not the water, Exon. 106 a; Th. 404, 31; Rä. 23, 16. Ðæt ðú lagu dréfde that thou mightest disturb the water, Exon. 123 a; Th. 473, 26; Bo. 20.

Wéland

(n.)
Grammar
Wéland, es; m.
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Wélandes geworc ne geswíceþ monna ǽnigum, Wald. 2; Vald. 1, 2. Wélandes bearn, 74; Vald, 2, 9. Beaduscrúda betst, Wélandes geweorc, Beo. Th. 914; B. 455.

Linked entry: Weolud

cíte

(n.)
Grammar
cíte, an; f.
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S. 23, 418. a cell of a monk, hermit, &c. Cýte, hulce (hulce ł céte, Hpt. Gl. 465, 45) tugurio .i. cella (the cell of John the hermit), An. Ox. 2515. Sý þám untrumum gebróðrum synderlíce cýte (hús, cýte, R. Ben.

Linked entry: céte

ge-lytlian

(v.)
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Suá beóð monige lǽcedómas ðe sume ádle gelytliað and sume gestrongiað; suá eác hláf ðe strongra monna mægen gemiclað, hé gelytlað cilda medicamentum, quad hunc morbum imminuit, alteri vires jvngit; et panis, qui vitam fortium roborat, parvulorum necat

HORD

(n.)
Grammar
HORD, es; n. m.
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Hordas, gerýne arcana, Mone B. 4216 (v. gold-hord)

or-lege

(n.)
Grammar
or-lege, es; n.
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swíðe ðínum brýdguman thou hast by thy hostile proceedings acted contrary to the judgement of wise men, dost reject too violently thy suitor, 248, 17; Jul. 97. a place where hostility is shewn Cwǽdon ðæt hé on ðam beorge byrnan sceolde . . . gif hé monna

Linked entry: or-læg

ge-coren

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Þára monna mód þe beóð on heora gecynde gecorene praestantes natura mentes, Bt. 18, 1; F. 60, 22. Þá feówer and twéntig gecorenra þe God heriað (cf. vigintiquattuor seniores cantabant ... dicentes: 'Dignus es, Domine,' Rev. 5, 8-9), Ll.

hlihhan

(v.)

to laughto rejoiceto laugh atto laughto scornTo laugh atderidescorn

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Þeáh þé monn hwelces yfeles on hlingc (cf. M. E. to laugh on a person) and þú þé unscyldigne wite though scorn is poured on you for some evil and you know yourself to be innocent (see Prov. Kmbl. 12 in Dict.), Prov. M. 12. trans.

Linked entry: hlehhan

hýd

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</b> the shell of an oyster :-- Sǽ mec fédde . . . nú wile monna sum mín flǽsc etan . . . siððan hé mé of sídan seaxes orde hýd árýpeð, Rä. 76, 7. the skin of a human being Útewardre hýde cute summa, An. Ox. 50, 23.

ge-mǽnan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-mǽnan, p. de; pp. ed [ge-mǽne communis] .
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[mǽne vilis, scelestus] to make common, contaminate, defile, violate; communicare, coinquinare, violare Ðæt ðǽr ǽnig mon wordum ne worcum wǽre ne brǽce, ne þurh inwit-searo ǽfre gemǽnden that there not any man by words or works should break the compact

Linked entries: mǽnan mǽnan

hwæt

(adj.)
Grammar
hwæt, adj.

Quickactivevigorousstoutboldbrave

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Nis mon ofer eorþan tó ðæs hwæt ðæt hé á his sǽfóre sorge næbbe there is no man on earth so bold as never to have anxiety for his journey on the sea, 82 a; Th. 308, 16; Seef 40.

on-hréran

(v.)
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Ðonne hine mon drincan welle, onhrére eft, Lchdm. ii. 270, 13. Ne mæg him se flǽschoma hond onhréran, Exon. Th. 311, 22; Seef. 96. Eorþe biþ onhréred of hire stówe, Blickl. Homl. 91, 36. Lyft wæs onhréred, Cd. Th. 208, 13; Exod. 482.

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scyndan

(v.)
Grammar
scyndan, scendan; p. de.
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mon monige scyndan scyle ( de exhortatione multis exhibenda ) tó ðæm ðætte his gódan dǽda ne weorðen tó yflum dǽdum, Past. 60; Swt. 453, 6

un-hǽlu

(n.)
Grammar
un-hǽlu, indecl.: un-hǽl, e; f.

bad healthdiseasesicknessinfirmityunsoundnessmisfortunemishap

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Lind. 8, 17. of animals, unsoundness Gif mon hwelcne ceáp gebygeþ and hé ðonne onfinde him hwelce unhǽlo on binnan .xxx. nihta, L. In. 56; Th. i. 138, 11. [Licome unhele, O. E. Homl. i. 7, 23. Unhæle and ælde, Laym. 11546.

Linked entries: hǽlu un-hǽl