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mearþ

(n.)
Grammar
mearþ, es; m.

A martena kind of weasel

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A marten, a kind of weasel Mearth furuncus, Ep. Gl. 9 d, 11. Mearþ, Wrt. Voc. ii. 36, 21: furo, idem deminutive furunculus, 39, 58: ferunca vel ferunculus, i. 22, 51. Mærþ feruncus, 78, 17: rumusculus, ii. 76, 36. Merþ ferunca, 40, 12.

Linked entries: mærþ merþern

Godmundingahám

(n.)
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Goodmanham, between Pocklington and Beverley, a place a little to the east of York, beyond the river Derwent, where a famous Witena-gemót was convened by Edwin, king of Northumbria, in A.

þroc

(n.)
Grammar
þroc, es; n.

a throcka table

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a throck (v. E. D. S. Pub., Cheshire Gloss., where is quoted: 'The Throck is the piece of Timber on which the suck (share) is fixed.' Academy of Armory by Randle Holmes.

un-fæstrǽd

(adj.)
Grammar
un-fæstrǽd, un-fæstrǽde, -rád; adj.

Infirm of purposeinconstantunstableweak

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Infirm of purpose, inconstant, unstable, weak Unfæstrǽd inconstans, Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 4. Ðá ongon ǽresð herigean on him ðæt ðæt fæsðrǽdes wiste and sóna æfter ðon suíðe líðelíce hierd[d]e ða ðe unfæsðráde (unfæstrǽdes, Cott.

and-heáfdu

(n.)
Grammar
and-heáfdu, (-a); n. pl.
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Headlands, the unploughed ground at the end of the furrows where the plough was turned Andlang ðǽra andheáfda, C. D. v. 298, 7, 9. Be ðém andheáfdan, ii. 172, 29: iii. 193, 8: vi. 8, 27, 29 (cf. on ðá heáfda, 36).

Linked entry: on-heáfdu

á-fleón

(v.)
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Dele v. trans. . . . ; fugare, and add Áflíð effugiet , Kent. Gl. 670. Se þorn of þám man áfleáh, Guth. 68, 22. Bearn áfleóndra (? printed aflundra) filii excussorum , Ps. Spl. M. 126, 5.

cræftiga

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Add: a craftsman, &c. Cræfican (cræftcan?) artifices, R. Ben. I. 94, 10. Ðæt wǽron .iiii. stáncræftigan in Róme, þǽr wæs samod .vi. hund cræftigena and xxii, and nǽron náne óðre him gelíce, Shrn. 146, 14.

dihtian

(v.)
Grammar
dihtian, p. ode
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To dictate, what is to be done Seó lufu gemet þǽre þreáunge dihtað ( dictat ), Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 67, 13. what is to be written In þám folclárum þe ic wrát and dihtode, Gr. D. 290, 11.

Linked entries: dihtan dihtere

drepan

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Mid cwylde drepen and slægen mortalitate percussus, 289, 11. Drepen and gestelled, 298, 27. wearð drepen in þá sceare percussus in inguine, 324, 14. wæs in feorh dropen, B. 2981. On gemynd drepen stupefied, Gen. 1571. Add

dyrstig-líce

(adv.)
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Se gedwola dirstilíce cwæð on Críste wǽron twégen hádas, Ll. Th. ii. 374, 18. Dyrstelíce, Hml. Th. i. 170, 35. Úre nán be him sylfum dyrstelíce ne trúwige, ii. 82, 26

fágung

a diversity

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D. 158, 31-159, 9. a diversity Fágungum diversis, Mk. p. 5, 7

ge-grówan

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D. 198, 28. of soil, to produce, bear Se æcer syððan gegreów .c. síða sélor þonne ǽr dyde, Shrn. 137, 25. Swá se fiicbeám ofersceadað ðæt lond ðæt hit under him ne mæg gegrówan, Past. 337, 11

ge-stincan

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Heó cwæð heó nǽfre ǽr náht swilces ne gestunce, S. 4, 349. Add

ge-trahtnian

(v.)
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Take here the first two passages under <b>ge-trahtian</b> in Dict., and add Manega men wénað þes middaneard scule standan on six þúsend wintrum, for ðan þe God gescóp ealle þing binnan six dagum; ac þaet getæl wíse witan on óðre wísan getrahtnedon

hefigian

(v.)

to weary

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Add: intrans. To become heavy. to increase in weight Se wǽta ásígð ðǽm lime, ðonne áswilð hit and hefegað, Past. 72, 10. of disease, to grow worse Hefiendre (hefigende, v. l.) þǽre ádle ingravescente molestia, Gr. D. 297, 14. trans.

hrægel-þegn

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Add: as officer of royal household Ǽlcan gesettan hræglðéne hundeahtatig mancusa goldis, C. D. B. iii. 75, 30 (from K.

íþe-lic

(adj.)
Grammar
íþe-lic, adj.
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Gr. D. 87, 2

Linked entry: eáþe-lic

saltere

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Add Eálá þú psaltere (psalterium) and hearpe, Ps. L. 56, 9. <b>II b.</b> add :-- This syndon thá cyrican mádmas on Scírburnan. Thǽr synd twá Crístes béc . . . i. mæssebóc and i ymener and i salter, C. D. B. iii. 660, 32.

searu

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Add Man áhéhþ mid searwum mycle sweras pendere magnas in machinis columnas, Gr. D. 270, 4. Þá sóhtan heora gewinnan him sarwe and worhtan him hócas non cessant uncinata hostium tela, Bd. 1, 12; Sch. 34, 27

slege

(n.)
Grammar
slege, es; m.
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Add Slegum alapis. An. Ox. 61, 59. ondrédon þǽre ferelan slegas of þæs hálgan mannes handa ex ejus manu ictus ferulae pertimescebant, Gr. D. 229, 25. Add Sle[gum] tunsionibus, An. Ox. 4114. Add Sleges, forwyrdes internitionis, i. mortis, An.