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stricel

(n.)
Grammar
stricel, es; m.
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Lorgaulté the strickle used in the measuring of corne' Cotgrave. ' When wee goe to take up come for the mill, the first thinge wee doe is to looke out poakes, then the bushel and strickle.' Farming Books of H.

Linked entries: strycel tit-stricel

ge-trahtian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-trahtian, -trahtnian; p. ode; pp. od

To treatexplainexpoundconsidertractāreexpōnĕre

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To treat, explain, expound, consider; tractāre, expōnĕre, consīdĕrāre Sume ðas race we habbaþ getrahtnod on óðre stówe some of this narrative we have expounded in another place, Homl. Th. ii. 264, 23.

Linked entry: trahtian

ge-mynegian

(v.)
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Tó þan ꝥ beón gemyngode (-myngode, v.l. ) ꝥ úre mód on ǽlcere gedréfednysse tó Gode áwendon, Angl. vii. 38, 358

yfele

(adv.)
Grammar
yfele, adv.
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Ðý læs wén sié ðæt yfele forweorþon lest perhaps we perish miserably, Blickl. Homl. 247, 2: Ps. Th. 79, 15: 106, 26. Hé ðá yfele and earmlíce geendode, Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 546. On ðære fare heom yfele gelamp, Chr. 1075; Erl. 212, 22.

ge-beácnian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-beácnian, -bécnian, -bícnian; p. ode; pp. od [ge, and beácnian to beckon]

To point outindicatemake signsindĭcārenuntiāreinnuere

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We woldon mid gebeácnian ða sóþfæstnesse we would therewith point out the truth, Bt. 35, 5; Fox 166, 16. Gebécnadon feder his innuebant patri ejus, Lk. Skt. Lind. 1, 62

Linked entries: ge-bécnend ge-bícnian

lemian

(v.)
Grammar
lemian, p. ede

To lamecrippleenfeeblestrike

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Swá wildu hors ðonne hié ǽresð gefangnu habbaþ hié stráciaþ mid brádre handa and lemiaþ equos indomitos blanda pries manu tangimus, Past. 41, 4; Swt. 303, 11.

ge-brégan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-brégan, p. de; pp. ed [ge-, brégan to give fear]

To frightenterrifyterréreperterrére

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We sind gebrégede we are terrified, Homl. Th. i. 578, 27

cifes-gemána

(n.)
Grammar
cifes-gemána, an; m.

Fornication concubinatus

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Fornication; concubinatus We lǽraþ, ðæt man geswíce cifesgemánan [MS. cifesgemanna] docemus, ut cessent concubinatus, L. Edg. C. 21; Wilk. 84, 1

lof-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
lof-líce, adv.

Honorablygloriously

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Honorably, gloriously Uton gehýran hú swíðe loflíce Sanctus Johannes wæs mid ðæs Hálgan Gástes mægenum gefylled, Blickl. Homl. 165, 16

mann-weorþung

(n.)
Grammar
mann-weorþung, e; f.

The worshipping human beings

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The worshipping human beings lǽraþ ðæt preósta gehwilc forbeóde wilweorþunga ... and manweorþunga, L. Edg. C. 16; Th. ii. 248, 3

ge-hleow

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-hleow, adj.

Shelteredwarm

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Sheltered, warm Ond ðá on gehliúran dene and on wearmran we gewícodon in apriciore valle sedem castrorum inveni, Nar. 23, 4

þegen-weorod

(n.)
Grammar
þegen-weorod, es; n.
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A host of thanes Ðæt tó ðam hýhstan hróf gestígan, dǽr is geþungen þegnweorud, Exon. Th. 47, 6; Cri. 751

under-þencan

(v.)

to look intoconsider

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to look into, consider sculon swíðe smeálíce ðissa ǽgðer underðencean hoc in utrisque subtiliter intuendum, Past. 7; Swt. 49, 23

be-ufan

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Ðá þing þe beufan writon, Lch. ii. 228, 24. Add

ciric-steall

(n.)
Grammar
ciric-steall, es; m.
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The site of a church wrítað him ðá circan and ðone circstall and ðone worðig, C. D. iii. 52, 37

mengung

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Add: a crowd of people þe wǽron gemængde tó þysum folclicum mængungum nos turbis popularibus admixti, Ur. D. 209, 13

riht-regol

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Add: a lawful rule of life bebeódað ꝥte Godes þeówas hiora ryhtregol on ryht healdan, Ll. Th. i. 102, 15

slúmere

(n.)
Grammar
slúmere, es; m.
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A sleeper Þá gedwyldmen man hǽt on Grécisc Nictates, and on úre geþeóde slúmeras hí magon nemnan, Chrc. 26, 2

ed-hwyrft

Grammar
ed-hwyrft, <b>.
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</b> Add: Hé ús edhwyrft forgeaf tó þám écean lífe þe ǽr forworhton, Verc. Först. 78, 18

on-hefedness

(n.)
Grammar
on-hefedness, e; f.

Exaltation

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Exaltation Gif ðone hróf ðære heálícan eáðmódnesse getellan willaþ and tó ðære heofonlícan anhefednesse cuman þencaþ, R. Ben. 23, 2

Linked entry: -hefedness