wudu-byrþra
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A bearer of wood Wudubyrþran calones, An. Ox. 869
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gúþ-wudu
War-wood ⬩ a spear
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War-wood, a spear, Fins. Th. 11; Fin. 6
wæl-wulf
a war-wolf, one who is as fierce to slay as is a wolf ⬩ a fierce cannibal, one who preys on the dead like the wolf
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as an epithet of a warrior, a war-wolf, one who is as fierce to slay as is a wolf Wódon wælwulfas, wícinga werod, Byrht.
fandung
A temptation, trial, proof ⬩ tentātio, prŏbātio, inquīsītio
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Ðære lufe fandung is ðæs weorces fremming the proof of love is the performance of work, Homl. Th. ii. 314, 28. On ðære fandunge in temptation, Boutr. Scrd. 23, 8.
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fromlíce
Strongly ⬩ stoutly ⬩ boldly ⬩ strenuously ⬩ promptly ⬩ speedily ⬩ audācĭter ⬩ strēnue ⬩ prŏpĕre
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Ic sceal fromlice féðemundum þurh steápne beorg strǽte wyrcan I shall strenuously work with my feet a road through a steep mountain, Exon. 104 b; Th. 397, 9; Rä. 16, 17: Cd. 95; Th. 123, 23; Gen. 2050: Bd. 5, 7; S. 620, 41.
Lid-wiccas
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The word seems to contain the British name for Armorica, Llydaw. v. notes to the passages from the Cod. Exon. and from the Chron. 918
Lindisfaran
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Name of people settled in part of Northumbria (the word occurs generally with eá or eá-land) Óswald Aidanum on Lindesfarona eálonde biscopsetl forgeaf (in insula Lindisfarnensi): on Lindesfearona eá, Bd. 3, 3; S. 525, 20, 35.
mis-fón
to fail to take ⬩ to mistake
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to fail to take, to mistake Ic hwílum gecoplíce funde ac ic nú gerádra worda misfó once I readily invented, but now I fail to get appropriate words, Bt. 2; Fox 4, 9. Be ðǽm ðe on cyricean misfón.
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rá
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The word is found in names of localities, e.g. On ráhweg : ðæt ondlong ráhweges on ráhdene, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 378, 22. Ðonan wið heortsolwe; ðonne wið ráhgelega, 391, 32
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scrætte
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Angl. 325; and in this sense Halliwell gives scrat as a word in dialects of the North. Scritta is the form glossing hermaphroditus in Ælfric's Glossary, Wrt. Voc. i. 45, 28. Corresponding forms but with different meanings are found in O. H.
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stillan
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Ðæt swéte word gemanigfealdaþ mannes freóndscipe and stilleþ mannes feónd, Salm. Kmbl. p. 206, 2 : Salm. Kmbl. 268 ; Sal. 133. Cyning ( Christ ) ýðum stilde, wæteres wælmum, Andr. Kmbl. 902 ; An. 451. Ðæt se ðám ómum stille, Lchdm. ii. 182, 6.
þǽr-rihte
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Rush. 1, 20. v. next word
wyrcness
work ⬩ labour ⬩ operation ⬩ working ⬩ doing ⬩ operation ⬩ working ⬩ performance
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work, labour, operation. Similar entries v. wyrcan, I Dónde wircnisse (operationes) in wætrum miclum, Ps. Surt. 106, 23. working, doing, operation.
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cwalu
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Him næs on þám hláfe forholen seó cwalu (wól, v. l. pestis ), Gr. D. 118, 9. Hwæt bið unáberendlicre tó gesiónne ðonne ðæs bearnes cwalu ( mors ) beforan ðæs fæder eágum?, Past. 34. 3, 11.
freót
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Hér geswutelað on ðissere Crístes béc ðæt Eádríc hæfð geboht Sǽgyfu his dohtor æt Ælfsige abbod tó écum freóte and eall hire ofspring, C.D. vi. 209, 10, 14: 210, 32. a grant of freedom (in this sense the word occurs as feminine), manumission Æilsig þe
ge-ríp
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hana
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. ¶ The word is given by runes contained in the text of Rä. 43, which has a cock for part of its subject. Add: —
holm
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holm- wudu ; and for the later use of the word in this sense cf. þe vox ulih to þam holme (cleoue, 2nd MS.), Laym. 20861.] sea Brym vel holm cataclismus, diluvium Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 42.
nosu
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Vos. 113, 6 second: 134, 17. substitute: <b>nóse,</b> an; f, taking it as a separate word
wealwian
To fade, wither ⬩ wallow = to fade away
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To fade, wither (Halliwell gives wallow = to fade away, as a Somerset word) Hæfð se Ælmihtiga ðæt gewrixle geset, ðe nú wunian sceal, wyrta grówan, leáf grénian, ðæt on hærfest eft hrést and wealuwaþ (cf. fealwaþ, Bt. 21; Fox 74, 23), Met. 11, 58.
Linked entries: walwian wealowigan wealowigan