slipig
Slippy, slimy, viscid
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Wið slipegrum wǽtum ðæs miltes 246, 17
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wiþ-æftan
Behind.
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Grammar wiþ-æftan, prep. Grammar wiþ-æftan, with dat. Heó hym tó geneálǽhte wyðæftan hym, Homl. Ass. 182, 48. Hí cómon tó Wiht, and námon ðǽr ðæt him ǽr wiðæftan wæs (what had been left behind them), Chr. 1052; Erl. 183, 25.
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lagu-streám
Sea ⬩ stream ⬩ river ⬩ water
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Lyft wið lagustreám air with water, Exon. 93 b; Th. 351, 22; Sch. 84. Lád ofer lagustreám, Andr. Kmbl. 845; An. 423: Bt. Met. Fox. 26, 31; Met. 26, 16. Ðǽr lagustreámas wyllan onspringaþ fons in medio est, Exon. 56 b; Th. 201, 27; Ph. 62.
wrigian
To turn ⬩ wend ⬩ hie ⬩ go ⬩ move
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Ǽlc gesceaft wrigaþ and higaþ wið his gecyndes, Met. 13, 65. Wuhta gehwilc wrigaþ tóheald wið ðæs gecyndes . . . þinga gehwilc þiderweard fundaþ, 13, 10.
leán
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See examples in Dict. with dat. of person, to speak with disapproval of something to a person, with the idea of dissuading or prohibiting Ne leá ic ðé ná ðæt ðú ǽgðer lufige I do not tell you that loving both is a bad thing Solil. H. 61, 17.
sǽd
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Þǽr nǽnig láreów ǽr cóm þá sǽd sáwan þæs hálgan geleáfan, Bd. 3, 7; Sch. 212, 8. add: semen Wið swíðlicne fléwsan sǽdes, Lch. i. 220, 3. Wíf. . . ymbe .xl. níhta þæs ðe heó þám sǽde (semen) onfó, Ll. Th. 154, 16.
cíte
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Hé lét árǽran ealle ábútan ðá dúne his hyrdecnapan cýtan, ꝥ hí ðǽr gehende mid heora hláfordes yrfe lágon, and wið cyle and wið hǽton hí sylfe geburgon, Hml. S. 23, 418. a cell of a monk, hermit, &c. Cýte, hulce (hulce ł céte, Hpt.
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ge-mang
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Ofer allo gimongo wyrtana ł wyrteno gimonge super omnia aromata, Rtl. 3, 40. a mixing with people, intercourse, commerce (of sexual intercourse) Flǽsclicum gemange carnali commercio, Wrt. Voc. ii. 128, 73.
ǽg-þer
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Hét hé ǽgðer eáge út ádón, 1095; P. 231, 27. conjunction, with two clauses Ǽgðer wið Eást-Engle ge wið Norðhymbre, Chr. 906; P. 94, 22. with more than two Ǽgþer ge eargast, ge wrǽnast, ge ofer-módgast, Ors. 2, 2; S. 66, 28.
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bíte
A BITE, pain, the biting or pain of a wound, a biting disease or cancer ⬩ morsus, cancri morbus vel cancer
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Gnættas cómon ofer ðæt land mid fýrsmeortendum bítum gnats came over the land with fire-smarting bites, Ors. 1, 7; Bos. 29, 30. Wið cancerádle, ðæt is, bíte, against cancer-disease, that is, a biting disease, L. M. 1, 44; Lchdm. ii. 108, 9
be-hýdan
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Ne mæg hine nán man behýdan wið hire hǽto, Ps. Th. 18, 6. Nis mín bán wið þé behýded (occultatum), 138, 13: Bl. H. 93, 35. Behéd lác munus absconditum, Kent. Gl. 780. Of þám díglum stówum þe hí on behýdde (abditi) wǽron. Bd. I. 16; Sch. 44, 14.
ge-wyrht
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Your work will avail; God will always be a lord to help you in every-thing good, while he will be a foe to others whose works are worse, Fä. 4-7.
æl-fylc
a foreign land ⬩ aliena provincia ⬩ foreigners ⬩ a foreign army ⬩ an enemy ⬩ peregrinus exercitus ⬩ hostes
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Kmbl. 72; El. 36. foreigners, a foreign army, an enemy; peregrinus exercitus, hostes Ðæt he wið ælfylcum éðelstólas healdan cúðe that he could keep his paternal seats against foreigners, Beo. Th. 4731; B. 2371
helle-hinca
The hell-limper, -hobbler ⬩ the devil lamed by his fall from heaven,
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Grimm [Deutsche Mythologie, 944-5] speaking of the devil observes 'Am ersten fällt sein lahmer fuss auf, daher der hinkende teufel [diable boiteux], hinkebein, vom sturz aus dem himmel in den abgrund der hölle scheint er gelähmt, wie der von Zeus herabgeschleuderte
hreów-
Grievous ⬩ miserable ⬩ pitiful ⬩ sad
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His wíf wyrþe wydewe hreówlíc fiat uxor ejus vidua, Ps. Th. 108, 9. Wálá ðǽt wæs hreówlíc síþ alas! that was a miserable thing, 1057; Erl. 192, 20.
mægþ-bót
The fine to be paid by an unmarried woman
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This regulation follows one that settles the fine to be paid by 'frí wíf locbore.'
ge-týdan
To make learned, skilled ⬩ to instruct
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To make learned, skilled, to instruct Dysine and ungelǽredne ic ðé underféng and ðá ðé getýdde and gelǽrede foolish and ignorant I received thee, and then made thee wise and taught thee, Bt. 7, 3; Fox 20, 10.
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ge-dégan
to pass through ⬩ escape ⬩ pertransīre
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Gif he wille sylf Godes dómas gedégan if he himself wish to be uncondemned, Blickl. Homl. 43, 12
swellan
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Wiþ ǽlcre yfelre swellendre wǽtan, Lchdm. ii. 6, 26. Swellende yfele swilas, 264, 12
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un-treówlíce
With bad faith ⬩ perfidiously
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With bad faith, perfidiously Agothocles gedyde untreówlíce wið hiene, ðæt hé hiene on his wárum beswác and ofslóg per Agathoclem insidiis circumventus, occisus est, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 170, 9. Ðá bæd hé ðæt mon dyde beforan him ðone triumphan.