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hése

(n.)
Grammar
hése, hoese, haese, hýse
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woodland country, land with bushes and bushwood. [The character of the land to which this name is applied seems marked by the fact that a denbǽre is called hése] Adiectis quatuor denberis . . . heáhden, hése, helmanhyrst, C. D. i. 317, 20.

hylc

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Fram stíge geond wóge hylcas on þá swýþran hand búgende a tramite per obliquos anfractus dextra (levaque) declinantia, 3427. an inequality of surface, a hump, roughness of land Ábrocen land vel hilcas (-es, MS.) anfractus, Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 12.

gærcian

(v.)
Grammar
gærcian, p. ode; pp. od

To preparepărāre

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Lamb. 67, 11. Hí gærcodon flána heora on cocere [MS. kokere] părāvērunt săgittas suas in pharetra, 10, 3

niþere

(adv.)
Grammar
niþere, niþre; adv.

Downbeneathbelow

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Down, beneath, below Læg mín flǽschoma in foldan bigrafen, niþre gehýded in byrgenne, ðæt ðú meahte beorhte uppe on roderum wesan, Exon. Th. 89, 34; Cri. 1467. Uppe ge niþre, 360, 3; Pa. 74

Linked entries: niþer niþre niþer

palm-treów

(n.)
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Lamb. 91, 13. Palmtreó palmes, Jn. Skt. Lind. Rush. 15, 4. Ðǽr wǽron hundseofontig palmtreówa ( palmae ), Ex. 15, 27. Palmtreówa (-trýwa) twigu ramos palmarum, Jn. Skt. 12, 13

gild-scipe

(n.)
Grammar
gild-scipe, gyld-scipe, es; m.

A guild-shipsocietysodalitas

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A guild-ship, society; sodalitas Án gildscipe is gegaderod on Wudeburg lande a guild-ship is gathered at Woodbury land, Th. Diplm. 608, 30: 605, 8: L. Edg. C. 9; Th. ii. 246, 12

Linked entry: ge-gyld-scipe

ge-erian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-erian, p. ede, ode, ade; pp. ed, od, ad

To earplougharare

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Ðæt land is geerod [geered MS. C.] aratur terra, 19; Som. 22, 46 : Heming, p. 134

steór-bord

(n.)
Grammar
steór-bord, es; n.
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-Hé lét him ealne weg ðæt wéste land on ðæt steórbord and ða wídsǽ on ðæt bæcbord, Ors. 1. 1; Swt. 17, 10, 25

stálian

(v.)
Grammar
stálian, ( = staþelian)
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P. 4; Th. ii. 308, 3) man and strangie and trymme hí georne mid wíslícre Godes lage, Wulfst. 267, 21. Cf.(?) efenstáledan conficiebantur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 133, 31

Linked entry: efen-stálian

un-cúþlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-cúþlíce, adv.

Unkindly

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Unkindly Ðam elþeódigan and útancumenan ne lǽt ðú nó uncúðlíce wið hine ne mid nánum unrihtum ðú hine ne drecce ( peregrino molestus non eris, Ex. 23, 9), L. Alf. 47; Th. i. 54, 21

Linked entries: cúþ-líce un-cúþ

ic

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Of láme ic þe leoðo gesette, geaf ic þé lifgendne gǽst, árode þé ofer ealle gesceafte, Cri. 1382. Ic þurh Iúdas ǽr hyhtful gewearð and nú gehýned eom þurh Júdas eft, El. 922. Add

mýderce

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Lǽt hí ealle fordón and ic gedó ꝥ þú hæfst týn þúsend punda tó þínum mýdercum (arcariis gazae tuae), Hml. A. 96, 156. Add: —

riht-tíd

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Þý lǽs ꝥ bearn of bearneácnum wífe sié ǽr rihttíde, Lch. ii. 330, 10. Ic ondette gífernesse metes and drinces ǽr tídum and in tíde, ge eác ofer rihttíde, Angl. xi. 98, 24. Add

gærs-swín

a swine paid for the privilege of using the lord's woods for the pasturage of swine

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Cf. cap. 49 of Ine's Laws concerning the illegal pasturing of swine, Ll. Th. i. 132, 11

BREÓST

(n.)
Grammar
BREÓST, es; n.

the breast of man or beast; pectusthe breasts;ubera The heart, mind, thought pectus, cor, mens

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On breóstum læg lay on my breast, 1109; B. 552. He beót his breóst percutiebat pectus suum, Lk. Bos. 18, 13. Blíð on breóstum mild in the breast [stomach], Cd. 30; Th. 41, 13; Gen. 656.

hleápan

(v.)
Grammar
hleápan, p. hleóp, pl. hleópon and hlupon [cf.Icel.hlupu]; pp. hleápen

To LEAP, jump, dance, run

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Ðonne hleápþ se healta swá swá heort the lame shall leap as a hart, Homl. Th. ii. 16, 18. Se ðe hleápeþ he who dances, Exon. 88 b; Th. 332, 11; Vy. 83.

bealdlíce

(adv.)

boldlyconfidentlyboldlyimpudently

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Hé bealdlíce clypað: 'Dém, déma,' Wlfst. 254, 7: 256, 6. Ábrǽd Petrus bealdlíce his swurd, Hml. Th. ii. 246, 22. Hí Crístes naman andetton bealdlíce betwux gedwol*-*mannum, 558, 24. Baldlícor fiducialius, Wrt.

weorold-gestreón

(n.)
Grammar
weorold-gestreón, es ; n.
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Feor sí ðæt Godes cyrice . . . weoruldgestreón séce ( lucra quaerere ), Bd. 1, 27; S. 490, 26

clerc

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clerc, cleric.
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Add: one of the secular (as opposed to monastic) clergy Ic secge þé, cleric, on þín eáre, Angl. viii. 300, 14. On gewittnesse Byrhtstánes mæssepreóstes and on clerices þe þis gewrát, Cht. E. 255, 30.

sǽl

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Add Hé cwæð: 'On sǽlum, bróðra, on sǽlum! gé wel habbað gewunnen, blinnað nú sume hwíle ait: "Gaudete, fratres, multum laborastis, jam quiescite"' Gr. D. 202, 5