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brastlung

(n.)
Grammar
brastlung, e; f.

A BRUSTLING, rustling, creaking, breaking, crashing;strepitus, crepitus, fractio

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A BRUSTLING, rustling, creaking, breaking, crashing; strepitus, crepitus, fractio Híg tobrǽcon ða búcas mid micelre brastlunge they broke the pitchers with great crashing, Jud. 7, 20. Brastlung treówa rustling of trees, Ælfc.

Linked entries: BRASTL bærstlung

Winedas

(n.)
Grammar
Winedas, pl. m.

The Wends

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Mid Winedum, Exon. Th. 322, 8; Víd. 60. Winedas and Burgendan, Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 16, 30

Linked entry: Weonod-land

ofer-flówan

(v.)

to overflow, cover with waterto overflow, pass beyond bounds

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to overflow, cover with water Seó eá ðæt land middeweard oferfleów mid fótes þicce flóde, Ors. 1, 3; Swt. 32, 6. to overflow, pass beyond bounds Gód gemet, geheápod and oferflówende hig syllaþ on eówerne bearm, Lk. Skt. 6, 38

ofer-síman

(v.)

to overload, oppress

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Warniaþ ðæt eówere heortan ne sýn ofersýmede mid oferfylle, R. Ben. 64, 1: 138, 11. Ðæt ða unstrangan ofersýmede heora þeówdóm ne forfleón, 121, 23

á-wlacian

(v.)
Grammar
á-wlacian, p. ode

To grow lukewarm

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Þe lǽs þe þǽre hálgan ǽfestnesse welm áwlacige and mid ealle ácólige, Lch. iii. 442, 20

bí-geng

(n.)
Grammar
bí-geng, (big-).

practiceexercisedoingcultivationtillageobservanceworship

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Ox. 2224. ꝥá þe Godes beboda mid biggengum ne healdad, Hml. S. 16, 172. Godes biggencgum, 24, 10: 25, 738. Mid wólicum biggencgum, 18, 392. Mánfulles hǽ þenscipes bígengcas ceremonias, An. Ox. 2624. Hwí ðú úre goda biggencgas forseó, Hml. S. 8, 57.

cirlisc

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Mid cyrlisceum (ceorl-, v. l.) þeáwe rusticano usu, Gr. D. 9, 16. On þám ceorliscean móde in mente rustica, 46, 13. Interorina fram manegum mannum mid ceorliscum wordum (cyrlisceum worde, v. l.) (verbo rustico ) is genemned Interocrina, 87, 32.

ge-camp

(n.)
Grammar
ge-camp, n. (not m.).
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Wé magon ðá feóndlican leahtras mid gecampe oferwinnan, gif wé cénlíce feohtað, Hml.

on-ginnan

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Nát ic hwæðer máre wundor wæs, þe þæt hé swá mid lytle fultume þone mǽstan dǽl þisses middangeardes gegán mehte, þe ꝥ hé mid swá lytle weorode swá micel anginnan dorste (adgredi ausus fuerit), Ors. 3, 9; S. 124, 16. with infin.

lengþ

(n.)
Grammar
lengþ, e; f.

Length

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Length On lengþe mid him hé begeat ealle ða eástlond at length with them he gained all the east country, Ors. 3, 11; Swt. 144, 1. [Hit weáx on lengþe it grew in length, Chr. 1122; Erl. 249, 22.]

un-seldan

(adv.)
Grammar
un-seldan, adv.

Not seldomfrequently

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Not seldom, frequently Ðone sang wé sungon unseldon mid heom, Homl. Skt. i. 21, 264. Oft and unseldan, L. E. G. proem.; Th. i. 166, 9: Btwk. 222, 2. Oft and unseldon, L. Pen. 2; Th. ii. 278, 5

Linked entry: seldan

wróht-smiþ

(n.)
Grammar
wróht-smiþ, es; m.

A worker of crimea criminal

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Ðæt ðú mé ne gescyrige mid scyldhetum, werigum wróhlsmiðum (the cannibal Mermedonians),on ðone wyrrestan deáð ofer eorðan, Andr. Kmbl. 171 ; An. 86

feoht

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Eall úre folc mid fleáme ætwand, búton wé feówertig þe on ðám feohte stódon, 11, 74. Cynig farende tó gesettanne feht rex iturus committere bellum, Lk. L. 14, 31. Add

for-seóþan

(v.)
Grammar
for-seóþan, pp. -soden

To boil away

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Hí (the Innocents) sind gehátene martyra blóstman, for ðan ðe hí wǽron swá swá úpáspringende blóstman on middeweardan cyle ungeleáffulnysse swilce mid sumere éhtnysse forste forsodene, Hml. Th. i. 84, 15

geáp-scipe

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Hé ríxade ofer Englæland, and hit mid his geápscipe swá þurhsmeáde, ꝥ næs án híd landes innan Englælande ꝥ hé nyste hwá heó hæfde, Chr. 1086; P. 220, 19

híwcúþ-ness

(n.)
Grammar
híwcúþ-ness, e; f.

Familiarity

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Mid bylde þǽre híwcúðnysse ausu familiaritatis, 71, 24; 140, 7. with an action Bútan tó rǽdenne híwcuðnysse nisi legendi familiaritate, Scint. 220, 2

osogen

(v.; adj.; part.)
Grammar
osogen, Cf.
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Mid deórenum ceáflum wǽre forsocen ł forgnegen ferinis rictibus suggillaretur, i. rapietur (Ald. 45, 34, the passage glossed at Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 23), An. Ox. 3344. The meaning of á-sogen in Nar. 16, 26 (v. á-súgan)

swǽsness

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Ðá byrðeras synd ólǽcunga lyffetyndra geférena þe mid ólǽcunge and geǽttredum swǽsnyssum þone synfullan tihtað and heriað, Hml. Th. i. 492, 29

tínan

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Þá sǽde hé him hospword and mid manegum tálum hine týnde, 724

wíd-gal

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Hé eóde út and mid wídgalum móde worhte á hwæthugu eorðlices egrediebatur et mente vaga terrena aliqua agebat, iii, 13. Add