Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

symbelness

(n.)
Grammar
symbelness, e; f.

Festivity, solemnityfestivity, feastinga religious festivalsolemnityfestive nature

Entry preview:

Ben. Interl. 43, 2. In dege mérum symbelnisse (sollemnitatis) eówerre, Ps. Surt. 80, 3. Symelnysse, Ps. Spl. 80, 3. On ðære Eástorlícan tíde symbelnysse in ipso tempore festi Paschalis, Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 40.

Linked entries: symbel symbel-calic

rún-stæf

(n.)
Grammar
rún-stæf, es; m.

a rune

Entry preview:

Ðá áxode se ealdorman ðone hæftling hwæðer hé þurh drýcræft oððe þurh rúnstafas his bendas tóbrǽce, Homl. Th. ii. 358,11

Linked entry: rún

carcern

Entry preview:

Ðá hálgan menn geðafedon monige bendas and carcernu (karcernu, v. l. ), Past. 205, 12

rǽdere

(n.)
Grammar
rǽdere, es; m.
Entry preview:

Ben. 62, 2-15. a reader, scholar Swá swá ða geleáfullan rǽderas hit gesetton, Lchdm. iii. 256, 21. a reader, lector, the second of the seven orders Seofon hádas syndon gesette on cyrcan . . . óðer is lector ....

stíþ-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
stíþ-líc, adj.
Entry preview:

Ben. 16, 2. Sió æcs wient of ðæm hielfe ðonne of ðaere ðreátunga gáþ tó stíðlíco word ferrum de manubrio prosilit, cum de correptione sermo durior excedit, Past. 21, 7 ; Swt. 167, 10. Sege ús for hwí ðú ús ðus stíþlíce word tó sprece, H.

un-gesǽlþ

(n.)
Grammar
un-gesǽlþ, e; f.

unhappinessillfortunecalamityunhappiness which consists in absence of moral good

Entry preview:

Ben. 135, 18

Linked entry: un-sǽlþ

un-myndlinga

(adv.)
Grammar
un-myndlinga, adv.

undesignedlywithout meaning to do somethingunexpectedly

Entry preview:

Ben. 67, 12. Gif him ǽfre unmendlinga geberede ðæt..., Met. 25, 30

Linked entry: myndlinga

ge-hleótan

(v.)
Entry preview:

Ben. I. 57, 15. Gehieóte hé þá genyþerunge þe Scarioth geearnude, C. D. B. i. 156, 4. to allot, assign as a person's share, give Hít wæs gehloten tó Jósepes bearna lande fuit in possessionem filiorum Joseph Jos. 24, 32.

ge-langian

(v.)
Entry preview:

Ben. I. 17, 12. Hét se bisceop hí gelangian, Hml. S. 2, 74: 23, 761: 34, 204. to send for a person to come to another. with dat. Gelangiað mé ðone martyr Mercurium, Hml. Th. i. 450, 31. with tó, preceding the dat.

hrace

Entry preview:

Ben. 138, 14. Hracan fauces, Wrt. Voc. ii. 39, 56. of places, a gorge, narrow outlet at the upper end of a valley(?) Anlang cumbes hracan (cf. andlang cumbes tó ðæs cumbes heáfde, 434, 35), C. D. iii. 440, 22

lyre

Entry preview:

Ben. 51, 6. the fact of losing something. the being deprived of, failure to keep a possession, faculty, &c. Þonne se man geunrótsað for his ǽhta lyre, Hml. S. 16, 291. Lyre gehealtsumnesse dispendio castitatis. An. Ox. 353.

mǽl

(n.)
Entry preview:

Ben. 69, 21. Hý on án mǽl tó nónes gereorden ad nonam semper reficiant, 66, 5. Eten gebróþru on twá mǽl, þæt is ǽrest on ðǽre syxtan tíde and eft on ǽfen ad sextam reficiant fratres et ad seram cenent, 65, 14: 63, 15. (See also lencten; )

six

Entry preview:

Ben. 37, 6. with ellipsis of subst. Þǽra diácona wæs se forma Stephanus. . . þá óþre six wǽron . . . Hml. Th. i. 44, 15. as substantive, the abstract number six Eahta síðon seofon beoð syx and fíftig, Angl. viii. 303, 3.

wǽg

(n.)
Grammar
wǽg, (see also wǽge), e; f.

a weighta weyan implement for weighinga balance

Entry preview:

Ben. 78, 11. an implement for weighing, a balance On wǽge beóð áwegene statera ponderabuntur, Scint. 97, 7. Weh on wǽge, Lchdm. i. 374, 15. Gelícere wáge aequa bilance, Hpt. Gl. 512, 76. Tó wége ł tó disce ad mensam, Lk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 19, 23.

æf-ést

(n.)
Grammar
æf-ést, l. æf-est(-æst, -ist), æfst, æfstu; m. f.

zeal

Entry preview:

Ben. 131, II. Elnung ł æfista húses ðines zelus domus tuae Jn. R. 2, 17

bærnett

burningcauterizinga burnburning heatconsuming by fire

Entry preview:

Ben. 52, 13. of the effect of cold:-- Wið cile bærnettes frigore exustis, Lch. l. 228, 23. a burn Wæs þæt bærnet þe hé gelæhte æt ðám were on his sculdre gesewen, Hml. Th. ii. 346, 25.

sǽd-berende

(adj.)
Grammar
sǽd-berende, In a legend of the Holy Cross Seth is represented as bringing seeds from Paradise, whither he had been sent by Adam: Seth, ita edoctus ab angelo cum uellet discedere, dedit ei angelus tria grana pomi illius, de quo manducauerat pater eius dicens ei: 'Infra triduum cum ad patrem tuum redieris ipse exspirabit. Haec tria grana infra eius linguam pones, &c.' If the poet of the Genesis knew such a legend it might have suggested the epithet he applied to Seth. v. Mod. Lang. Rev. vi. 200. See, too, C. M. 1365
Entry preview:

His leue Seth toke of cherubyn, and þre curnels he ȝaf to hym whiche of ꝥ tre he nam ꝥ his fadir eet of Adam

mynster

(n.)
Grammar
mynster, es; n.

a monasterya place where a body of monks or of nuns resideda churchminster

Entry preview:

Ben. 127, 4-7. Wæs se ǽrest abbod ðæs ylcan mynstres Petrus háten, Bd. 1, 33; S. 499, 5: 2, 2; S. 502, 40. Mynstres aldor, L. Wih. 17; Th. i. 40, 13. Gif hwá gefeohte on cyninges húse síe hé scyldig ealles his ierfes . . .

scríðan

(v.)
Grammar
scríðan, p. scráð, pl. scridon; pp. scriden, scriðen.
Entry preview:

Ben. 135, 21. Bana wíde scráð (of the destroying angel that smote the firstborn of Egypt), Cd. Th. 180, 3 ; Exod. 39. Ðæt hine ne worian ne scríðan (uagari) ne lyste, R. Ben. 126, 18. Swá scríðende hweorfaþ gleómen, Exon.

wealcan

(v.)
Grammar
wealcan, p. weólc; pp. wealcen

To roll, toss. of the movement of watertrans. of other movement literal metaph. of action of thought, trans. To turn over in the mindto revolve, consider with a preposition intrans.to turn over, deal with

Entry preview:

Ben. 24, 3. intrans.

Linked entry: wealcian