mis-boren
mis-born ⬩ mis-shapen at birth ⬩ abortive ⬩ degenerate
Entry preview:
M. 33, 34: ȝif hit (the child) is mis-born, as hit ilome limpeð.) degenerate Misboren degener, Germ. 393, 130
níd-hǽs
A command which is attended by compulsion
Entry preview:
A command which is attended by compulsion Man for cyning gebidde and hine búton neádhǽse heora willum weorðigen let people pray for the king, and honour him without injunction, of their own accord, L. Wih. 1; Th. i. 36, 16
Linked entry: hǽs
niht-eald
A day old
Entry preview:
A day old Gif hit biþ nihteald þiéfþ if it is a theft a day old, i. e. if a day passes between the commission of the crime and the capture of the thief, L. In. 73; Th. i. 148, 10
Linked entry: eald
self-ǽta
Entry preview:
An eater of those belonging to its own species, (applied to man) a cannibal, anthropophagus Ðú scealt féran . . . ðǽr sylfǽtan eard weardigaþ . . . swá is ðære menigo þeáw, ðæt hié uncúðra ængum ne willaþ feores geunnan, Andr. Kmbl. 350; An. 175
be-þearfaþ
he needs, wants ⬩ opus habet
Entry preview:
he needs, wants; opus habet Hwæt helpeþ vel beþearfeþ [MS. beþearfaþ] menn what does it help to a man or what needs a man [of what use is it to a man]? quid prodest homini? Mt. Rush. Stv. 16, 26
Linked entry: þearfian
ge-mundbyrdan
To protect, defend, patronize ⬩ protĕgĕre, tuēri
Entry preview:
To protect, defend, patronize; protĕgĕre, tuēri Ða is fór God wille gemundbyrdan whom I will protect before God, Cd. 113; Th. 149, 11; Gen. 2473. Ðæt he hine gemundbyrde that he would protect him, Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 21
Linked entry: mundbyrdan
un-fulfremed
Imperfect
Entry preview:
Imperfect Praeteritum imperfectum, ðæt is unfulfremed forðgewiten, Ælfc. Gr. 20; Zup. 124, 3. Ðæt hí didon unfulfremed ( inperfectum ) forlǽtende, R. Ben. lnterl. 24, 1.
wráþ
cruelty ⬩ what is grievous ⬩ the painful
Entry preview:
Gl. 518, 35. what is grievous, the painful Ðæt nán wiht ne sý, . . . ne ðæs heardes ne ðæs hnesces, ne ðæs wráðes ne ðæs wynsumes, . . . ðæt hig þonne mihte fram úres Drihtnes lufan ásceádan, Wulfst. 184, 20
Linked entry: wráþ-líc
ýþ-hof
Entry preview:
Ongan ófostlíce ðæt hof (ýðhof is suggested by Grein, which would restore the missing alliteration ) wyrcan, Cd. Th. 79, 25; Gen. 1316
á-hwettan
Entry preview:
Is mé swíþe earfeðe hiera mód tó áhwettanne necessarium acumen elicere non possum, Ors. 4, 13; S. 212, 30. His mód wæs mid þǽm bismre áhwet hac contumelia quasi cote ad virtutem usus est, 6, 30; S. 280, 14. Add
Linked entry: hwettan
Elmed-sǽte
Entry preview:
The inhabitants of Elmet, the ancient British Loidis, an independent district in Yorkshire Elmedsǽtan (Elmet-, Elmeth- in Latin MSS.) landes is syx hund hýda, C. D. B. i. 414, 17. Cf. In monasterio . . . quod est in silua Elmete, Bd. 2, 14
fæst-land
Entry preview:
Land adapted to resist attack, that is hard to invade Fóran wé þurh ðá fæstlond and þurh þá ungeférenlican eorþan we marched through country which could easily have been defended and over ground that was almost impassable, Nar. 17, 6
fleswian
Entry preview:
Another various reading is fleose-wade. For 'To mutter, whisper' substitute:
ge-híwodlíce
Entry preview:
Hí magon eác sume beón geðeódde datiuo gehíwodlíce : amicus illi est hé is him freónd . . . Sume nimað accussatiuum gehíwodlíce: exosus bella onscuniende gefeoht, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 250, 13-251, 1
Linked entry: -híwodlíce
ge-span
Entry preview:
Ús is gecynde ðæt wé ǽlc yfel on ðrió wísan ðurhtión, ðurh gespan (suggesiione) . . . Ðæt gespan bið ðurh dióful . . . Ðá wæs Adam ðurh gespan ðǽre nǽddran oferswíðed . . . On ðǽm gespane wé magon ongietan ðá synne, Past. 417, 19-30. Add
ge-tácniendlic
Entry preview:
Ben. 72, 9. symbolical Hí getácnigendlice lác offrodon. pæt gold getácnode þæf hé is sóð cyning, Hml. Th. i. 116, 8
handfangen-þeóf
Entry preview:
.), which is the usual form in lists similar to those in which it occurs Hámsócn and forsteall, griðbrice and handfangenðeóf, C. D. iv. 233, 9. Handfangeneðeóf, 17: 23: 30
heáh-helm
Entry preview:
Having foliage high up; of a light, having far-reaching rays þone heáhhelman leóman iubar alticomum (the passage is: Modio lateat ne tecta lucerna, sed iubar alticomum Domini diffundat in aedem, Vita S. Cudbercti c. 21, 50), Hpt. 33, 238, 1
medum-ness
Entry preview:
Seó gyfu ne bið oncnáwen of þǽre medem*-*nysse, ac gewuna hí is tó getácnigenne of þǽre sáwle dǽdum, Hml. S. 23 b, 240. Ða medomnesse ðǽre strengio se salmscop ongeat hanc dignitatem fortitudinis Psalmista considerat, Past. 85, 22. Add
riht-gewittig
Entry preview:
Hwylc rihtgewittigra manna is tó þon snotor ꝥ hé wylle þá gástas secgan líchamlice? quis sanum sapiens esse spiritus corporeos dixerit?, 305, 2
Linked entry: ge-wittig