land-mearc
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lungre
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wiþer-breca
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tæfl
Properly a board for the playing of a game. But the word seems also used of a game played on such a board: cf. the use of the word tables at a later time ⬩ The word seems to denote also a die used in playing a game. What was the precise nature of the games, to which this word and related forms are applied, does not appear; some of the references below would imply that games of chance are meant, and this would be in keeping with the love of gaming which Tacitus, Germ. c. 24, noticed among the Germans. But games of skill like chess may sometimes be meant. In Icelandic tafl is used of chess or draughts, as well as of dicing, and the Danes in England seem to have played chess ⬩ Among the Welsh, too, was a game something like draughts, called tawlbwrdd
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The word seems to denote also a die used in playing a game.
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burg-waru
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H. 201, 21. v. next word. Add
ram-hund
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Add: The true form of the word, which is given only in comparatively modern MSS., is doubtful. Rain-, raine-hound, as well as ram-hundt, occur (v. Ll. Lbmn. 626, 2), and these seem to represent the original word more nearly than does ram-.
snǽdan
to slice, cut into slices ⬩ to snathe ⬩ to lop, prune, cut branches off trees ⬩ to hew ⬩ trim stones. ⬩ putare ⬩ to cut into slices
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to slice, cut into slices On hunig gesnǽd Lchdm. ii. 294, 9. to snathe [given by Halliwell as a northern word = to prune trees, and occurs in Ray's collection, E. D. S. Pub. Gloss. B. 15.
Sol-mónaþ
February ⬩ placenta ⬩ panibus sol ⬩ sun ⬩ mire ⬩ spurcalia
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Bede says, 'Solmónaþ dici potest mensis placentarum, quas in eo diis suis [Angli] offerebant;' but there is no word sol = placenta, unless it be found in the gloss panibus sol, Epinal Glossary, ed. Sweet, p. 21 a, 11.
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a-smorian
To smother ⬩ choke ⬩ strangle ⬩ suffocate ⬩ suffocare
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To smother, choke, strangle, suffocate; suffocare Asmoraþ ðæt word suffocat verbum, Mt. Rush. Stv. 13, 22. Hí hine on his bedde asmoredan and aþrysemodan they smothered and stifled him on his bed, Ors. 5, 4; Bos. 105, 5.
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BÉD
A prayer ⬩ supplication ⬩ religious worship ⬩ oratio ⬩ supplicatio ⬩ Dei cultus
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The original word béd a prayer was superseded by ge-béd a prayer, q.v
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leoþu-cræft
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Segn eallgylden hondwundra mǽst gelocen leoþocræftum [skilfully; or leóþocræftum, (cf. leóþcræft and next word) with charms, magically; cf. the Danish banner, the Raven, supposed to be woven by the daughters of Ragnar, and to which extraordinary qualities
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meahtig-líce
Mightily ⬩ powerfully ⬩ with might
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Mihtiglíce hé mihte mid his worde hine gehǽlan búton hrepunge by an exercise of power he could have healed him with his word, without touching, Homl. Th. i. 122, 8.
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targe
A targe, small shield
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Ger. zarga costa (aheni) with the English word] Ic geann Ælmére mínen discðéne mínes taregan, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 363, 12. Targa[n] parma, scuto, Hpt. Gl. 423, 50. Twá targan and twegen francan, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 304, 30. Targena peltarum, Hpt.
Linked entry: ge-targed
þorf-fæst
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Cf. þearf, V, þearf-líc, II, and next word
Linked entry: un-þorffæst
un-begunnen
Without beginning
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Without beginning Sum ic eom is edwistlíc word and gebyraþ tó Gode ánum synderlíce, forðan ðe God is ǽfre unbegunnen and ungeendod on him sylfum and ðurh hine sylfne wunigende, Ælfc. Gr. 32; Zup. 201, 9: Wit. Voc. i. 70, 1: Homl.
ed-wenden
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for me of that happiness an end there came, mourning after mirth, B. 1774. v. previous word
fileþe
hay
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Th. 36, 2. the word occurs in compound forms in the charters: Tó fileðleáge forda, C. D. v. 394, 12. In filiðleáge, iii. 383, 8. On ðá ác on fileðcumbe, vi. 43, 21. Of Stokwei, tó Filed-hamme, iii. 445, 29. Also (?)
gilp-georn
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hlýd-mónaþ
a maple
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Dele: Add: (Could this be the word which in M. E. becomes lyn in lyntre tilia, and later linn. v. N. E. D. linn, a linden or lime ?)
hran-fisc
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Add: The word seems used of some other fish than the whale in the following Hié of ðǽm neáhéum and merum þá hronfiscas úp tugon, and þá ǽton, and be þǽm lifdon, and ꝥ wæter æfter druncon (this very imperfectly translates the Latin, which is: Hii assueti