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mán-full

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Þás mánfullan men þe ymbe specað wǽron getealde for godas, Wlfst. 106, 15. Þára mánfulra forþforlǽtenesse on þás woruldspéda, Bt. 5, 1 ; F. 10, 22. Add

mynegung

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Add Tóforan eallum þingum ðæs mynegunge dóð ꝥ hý bútan ceorunge sýn hoc ante omnia ammonentes, ut absque murmuratione sint, R. Ben. 65, 10. Minegungum oraculis, i. sermonibus An. Ox. 3384. Add Þý lǽs seó mynugung forlǽge.

on-efn

(prep.; adv.)
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Circumflexus accentus byð of þám óðrum twám geworht, swá hér onem (at the side ) habbað ámearkod, Angl. viii. 333, 27

riht-ǽw

(n.)
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Add lǽrað ꝥ man geswíce cifesgemánan and lufige rihtǽwe, Ll. Th. ii. 248, 18. Add Gif hé cyfesan hæbbe and náne rihtǽwe si concubinam habeat, et nullam legitimam uxorem, Ll. Th. ii. 186, 3.

DRINC

(n.)
Grammar
DRINC, drync, es; m: drinca, an; m: drince, an; f.

DRINK, a drink, draught potus, haustus

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We ðé drinc sealdon dedĭmus tibi potum, 25, 37; Bt. Met. Fox 8, 43; Met. 8, 22. Nǽron ðá mistlíce drincas there were not then various drinks, Bt. 15; Fox 48, 5: Bt. Met. Fox 8, 18; Met. 8, 9

Linked entries: drænc drync dryngc

þracu

(n.)
Grammar
þracu, gen. þræce; f.
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At once were the Romans prepared, 90; El. 45. Geceósan swá þrymmes þræce swá þrýstra wræce to choose either the power of glory or the misery of darkness, Exon. Th. 37, 14; Cri. 593.

Linked entries: ge-þracen þrece

ge-coren

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Wer gecorenne (-one, -ene, v.ll.) on his þeáwum uirum probum moribus, Bd. 3, 23; Sch. 299, 9

Brunan burh

(n.)
Grammar
Brunan burh, gen. Brunan burge; dat. Brunan byrig; f.

Brunanburh, about five miles south-west of Durham, or on the plain between the river Tyne and the Browney,

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There is a plain between the rivers Wear and Browney [Brunan eá], and west of Durham, well adapted for a great battle. We find, in the present day, east and west Brandon [Brunan dún] and Brandon castle, the property of Viscount Boyne.

greótan

(v.)
Grammar
greótan, ic greóte, ðú grýtest, grýtst, he greóteþ, grýt, pl. greóteþ; p. greát, pl. gruton; pp. groten
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To weep; flere, lacrimare Heó sceal oft greótan she shall often weep, Salm. Kmbl. 753; Sal. 376. Se ðe on sefan greóteþ who weeps in spirit, Beo. Th. 2689; B. 1342

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Þæt is gesewen þæt hé wæs gewiss his silfes forðfóre of þám þe nú secgon gehýrdon (ex his quae narrauimus), Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 492, 2: Ll. Th. ii. 348, 31. Ymbe þá þing þe nú handledon, Angl. viii. 304, 24: 298, 19.

bréman

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Weorþodan and brémdon þone myclan symbeldæg, Bl. H. 131, 9. Eall cynn lofu bréme (celebret). Hy. S. 48, 9. Bletsien þec fiscas and fuglas, ealle þá þe onhrérað hreó wǽgas brémen Dryhten, Az. 142 : 116. Brémed celebratur, honoratur. Hpt.

cuppe

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Gif þám þearfan gerǽcað cuppan fulle cóles wæteres, Hml. A. 141, 82. Hé genam áne cuppan mid cwealmbǽrum drence . . . and begól þone drenc, Hml. S. 14, 73. Ne mage gé samod drincan úses Drihtnes calic and ðæs deófles cuppan, 17, 218.

costnung

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'Ne geðafa þæt beón gelǽdde on costnunge.' Óðer is costnung, óðer is fandung. . . . Þurh ðá fandunge hé sceal geðeón, gif hé þám costnungum wiðstent, Hml. Th. i. 268, 6-19.

earg-lic

(adj.)
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earg-lic, adj.
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Cowardly, craven, timid Ne gewurðe hit ná on lífe ꝥ álecgan úre wuldor mid earhlicum fleáme, Hml. S. 25, 661. Ful earhlice laga ( laws that only cowards would submit to ) and scandlice nýdgyld ús synt gemǽne, Wlfst. 162, 10.

friþ-splott

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Substitute: A place which is a sanctuary on account of the sacred character superstitiously attributed to it, an asylum lǽrað ꝥ preósta gehwilc ǽlcne hǽðendóm ádwǽsce, and forbeóde. . . þá gemearr þe man drífð on mislicum gewíglungum and on friðsplottum

Linked entry: friþ-geard

fulloc

(n.)
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A full, final agreement willað ꝥ . . . getrýwe gewitnes and riht dóm and fulloc (ful loc?) . . . fæste stande, Ll. Th. ii. 302, 6. v. loc; and cf. Icel. full-mæli a final, full agreement

ge-rádlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
ge-rádlíce, adv.
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habbað ymbe þǽre sunnan ryne manega þing gerádlíce átrahtnod, 308, 15. Cf. ge-rǽdelíce

Linked entry: ge-rádelíce

mund-bora

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An ðás rédenne ic hit ðider selle ðe se monn sé ðe Kristes cirican hláford sié, sé mín and mínra erfewearda forespreoca and mundbora and an his hláforddóme bián móten, C. D. i. 311, 21. Iulianus úre ciricean mundbora ( defensor ), Gr. D. 71, 12.

wyrtwalian

(v.)
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Add Weód wyrtwalian, Angl. ix. 262, 21

wicu

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Add: where the reference is to any day but Sunday, week as in week-day Gyf se terminus becymð on ðone Sunnandæg . . . Gyf se terminus gescýt on sumon dæge þǽre wucan, Lch. iii. 244, 17