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Anglo-Saxon

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ge-hradian

(v.)
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To come quicily, happen quickly Sóna wól ealra mána somod gehradode luxuriam continuo omnium lues scelerum comitari adcelerauit Bd. 1, 14; Sch. 38, 18

singan

(v.)
Grammar
singan, p. sang, song, pl. sungon ; pp. sungen
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Horn song fúslíc leóþ, Beo. Th. 2851 ; B. 1423.

barþ

(n.)
Grammar
barþ, es; m.

A kind of shipa light vessel to sail or row indromo

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Gl. 103; Som. 77, 102; Wrt. Voc. 56, 24

dolh-smeltas

(n.)
Grammar
dolh-smeltas, pl. m.

Linen bandagestæniæ = ταινίαι

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Gl. 4; Som. 55, 93; Wrt. Voc. 16, 64. v. tæppan, from tæppa, m

Linked entry: smelt

eow

(n.)
Grammar
eow, es; m.

the mountain ash ornus?

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Gl. 47; Som. 65, 40; Wrt. Voc. 33, 37

earfoþ-lǽte

(adj.)
Grammar
earfoþ-lǽte, adj.

Difficult to be sent forthdiffĭcĭlis emissu

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Gl. 11; Som. 57, 47; Wrt. Voc. 19, 49

ealdnys

(n.)
Grammar
ealdnys, -nyss, e; f.

OLDNESS, age vĕtustas

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Gr. 5; Som. 5, 21. We awurpon ða derigendlícan ealdnysse we have cast off pernicious age, Homl. Th. i. 194, 25

hwistlere

(n.)
Grammar
hwistlere, es; m.

A piper

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Gr. 9; Som. 9, 25. Ðá hé geseah hwistleras cum vidisset tibicines, Mt. Kmbl. 9, 23

médren-gecynd

(n.)
Grammar
médren-gecynd, es; n.

Nature derived from the mother

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Nature derived from the mother Hé wæs sóð man þurh his médrengecynd (méddrengecynd) he was very man in the nature derived from his mother, Wulfst. 17, 7

græf

(n.)
Grammar
græf, es; n.
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Gl. 80; Som. 72, 114; Wrt. Voc. 46, 71

samod-swégende

(adj.)

consonantes

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Gr. 2; Som. 2, 49

ofer-libban

(v.)

to outlive, survive

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Láf oððe oferlibbende superstes, Gr. 9, 26; Som. 11, 7

ge-swælan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-swælan, p. de; pp. ed, ud

To lightkindleinflammareaccendere

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Gl. 60; Som. 68, 35; Wrt. Voc. 39, 21

hrif-wund

(adj.)
Grammar
hrif-wund, adj.
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If he be run through let twenty shillings be paid [cf. the passage given in the note from Alamannic Laws, 'si in interiora membra transpunctus fuerit, quod hrefwunt dicunt, cum xii sol. componat. Si transpunctusfuerit cum xxiv sol. componat.'

or-hlyte

(adj.)
Grammar
or-hlyte, adj.

Having no share of, not participating in, free from, without

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Gr. 9, 43; Som. 13, I: 47; Som. 48, 44. Orhlita exsors, Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 48. Wá ðære sáwle ðe orhlyte hyre lîf ádríhþ ðæra háligra mihta. Homl. Th. i. 346, 25. Orhlyte ýdeles gylpes, ii. 286, 28.

hleóþor

(adj.)

a soundnoisevoice

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Gehýrde heó cúðne swég and hleóðor heora bellan audiuit notum campanae sonum Bd. 4, 23; Sch. 477, 16.

Cealca ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Cealca ceaster, ceastre; f.

The chalk city

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The chalk city Camden thinks it is Tadcaster, in Yorkshire idem, ut opinatur clarus Camdenus, quod hodie Tadcaster in agro Eboracensi, sic olim vocatum a ealce ibidem copiose effossa, Som. Ben. Lye

dæg-mǽl

(n.)
Grammar
dæg-mǽl, es; n. [mǽl a mark]

A day-mark, an instrument for telling the hour, a dial, clock horologium = ώρoλόγιoν = ώρα an hour: λόγιoν a telling, an announcement

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Gl. 30; Som. 61, 58; Wrt. Voc. 26, 57

helde

(n.)
Grammar
helde, an; f.

Tansytanacetum vulgare

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Gl. 40; Som. 63, 87; Wrt. Voc. 30, 33. Genius heldan take tansy, L. M. 1, 36; Lchdm. ii. 86, 20

iung

(adj.)
Grammar
iung, adj.

Young

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Gl. 45 ; Som. 64, 106; Wrt. Voc. 32, 41 : 64, 93 ; Wrt. Voc. 32, 28