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geá

etiam, jam

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L. 11. 9. Geé ł sóðlíce, 12, 8. Wutetlíce ł gé ðéh ðe seel sié etiamsi oportuerit 26, 35. Gée etiam Mt. p. 14, 13 : Rtl. 22, 15. Gee, Mk. L. 13, 22. Gee (gé, R.) ł sóðlíce iam Mk. L. 8, 2. Sóð ł gee, 12, 34. Gee ł uutudlíce, Jn. L. 9, 27. Gée, Jn.

sittan

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<b>I b.</b> add :-- Hié hiene méðigne on cneówum sittende métton, Ors. 3, 9; S. 134, 31. <b>I d.</b> of an animal at rest :-- Geseah hé þǽr ánne pytt and þreó heorda sceúpa sittende (accubantes) wið þone pytt, Gen. 29, 2.

horn

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<b>I a.</b> </b> Fearres horn gebrǽdedne tó acsan, 366, 9. v. cú-, wesend-horn. horn as emblem of power and might (Biblical use) Hé ús hǽle horn árǽrde, Lk. i. 69.

-isse

(suffix)

-issa

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This suffix, Lat. -issa, which in later English became the common suffix to mark the feminine gender, is found before the Norman Conquest in the word abbud-isse abbess

lǽnend

(n.)
Grammar
lǽnend, es; m.

A creditorlender

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Twegen gafolgyldon wǽron sumum lǽnende duo debitores erant cuidam feneratori, Lk. Skt. 7, 41

ge-dærsted

(v.)
Grammar
ge-dærsted, part. [dærst leaven]

Leavenedfermentedfermentatus

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Óþ-ðæt sié gedærsted oððe gecnoeden all donec fermentaretur totum, Lk. Skt. Lind. 13, 21

Linked entry: -dærsted

swígen

(n.)
Grammar
swígen, swígenn, e; f.
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Silence, refraining from speech Ðam láreówe sylfum deraþ hwílon his swígen, ac heó deraþ symle his underðeóddum, gif him biþ seó heofenlíce lár oftogen, Homl. Th. ii. 532, 4

sweltend-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
sweltend-líc, adj.
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.), Lk. Skt. 7, 2. Wambe sweltendlíces flǽsces uentrem moriture carnis, Scint. 53, 2

á-birgan

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Ll. Th. i. 226, 24. with acc. Hé ábyrgde ðá forbodenan fictreówes blǽda, Sal. K. 182, 34

Linked entry: a-byrgan

cealfian

(v.)
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Ealdre cú meolc .vii. niht syððan heó níge cealfod hæfð, Ll. Th. i. 438, 19. Add

bydel-æcer

(n.)
Grammar
bydel-æcer, es; m.
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Land allotted to a bydel (cf. Bydele gebyreð sum landstycce for his geswince, Ll. Th. i. 440, 7) On ðæene bydelæcer, of ðám bydelæcere, C. D. vi. 152, 31

dæg-weorc

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., Ll. Th. ii. 314, 18. Gé hwyrfað niht tó dæge and dægweorc tó nihte, Wlfst. 47, 8. Add

eftern

(n.)
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evening Forðon ꝥ eftern lócað (forðon éfern longeð ðú wást, R.) quoniam aduesperascit, Lk. L. 24, 29. [The glosser seems to have read uesper aspicit.] [Cf. (?) Icel. aptan, aftan.] (?)

fédels

Grammar
fédels, fédesl.

a fatlingfeeding

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The word occurs as a technical term in the following Cyninges fédesl .xx. scillinga forgelde, Ll. Th. i. 6, 8

feng-tóþ

(n.)
Grammar
feng-tóþ, (?)
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Ll. Th. i. 94, 11, on which this passage is founded where the word wongtoþ is used), Schmid. 426, 18

Linked entry: fæng-tóþ

frence

(n.)
Grammar
frence, an; f.
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A rough cloak Frence coculus (cf. amphibalum; coculus, Ld. Gl. H. 43, col. 2, 18, and rúh hrægel amphibalum, Wrt. Voc. i. 25, 65), Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 41

ge-týnan

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Add: to fence, enclose land Gif ceorlas gærstún hæbben tó týnanne and hæbben sume getýned hiora dǽl ... þám þe hiora dǽl getýnedne hæbben, Ll. Th. i. 128, 5-9

líf-leást

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Gif þás lác ne beóð bebrocene þurh Bel, beo hit úre lífleást (let us die), Shrn. 4, 5. Wé synd ealle beléwde tó úre lif-leáste traditi sumuss Add: —

líhtan

(v.)
Grammar
líhtan, to lighten.
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Ðá lýhte (hlíhte, líhte, v. ll. ) hé sóna desiliens. Bd. 3, 14 ; Sch. 257, 12. Hí þá sóna líhton descendentes, Gr. D. 15, 27. v. ofer-, under-líhtan. Add

ærce-diácon

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Arcediácones geban, Ll. Th. ii. 290, 24. Archidiácones, Shrn. 115, 31. Sumne ercediácon, Hml. S. 29, 213. Add