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gebregd-stafas

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Substitute: Cunning skill Ic íglanda eallra hæbbe bóca onbyrged, þurh gebregdstafas lárcræftas onlocen Libia and Gréca I of the islands all have the books browsed on, and by cunning skill the learning unlocked of Lybians and Greeks, Sal. 2

gebúr-land

(n.)
Grammar
gebúr-land, es; n.
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Land occupied by gebúras Ðis sindon þá land-gemǽro þæs gebúrlandes (þǽsse búrlandes, C.D. v. 401, 34) tó Abbendúne, C.D.B. iii. 201, 14

Linked entry: bur-land

gebyrd-boda

(n.)
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one who announces a birth Sé onsended wæs . Summo de throno . and þǽre clǽnan . Clara voce . þe gebyrdboda (þá gebyrd bodade?) . bona voluntate . ꝥ heó sceolde cennan . Christum regem, Dóm. L. 36, 17. (?)

hlinc-gelád

(n.)
Grammar
hlinc-gelád, es; n.
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A watercourse on a slope (?). The word occurs as a place-name Ðis sind ðá landgemǽru tó Hlincgeláde (cf. quoddam ruris praediolum . . . eni solicolae antiquum indiderunt uocabulum æt Lhincgelade, 78, 21), C. D. vi. 79, 4

Linked entry: ge-lád

hundfeald-getel

Similar entry: hund-feald

mǽr-geard

Similar entry: GEARD

míl-gemet

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Út on þone feld; ðæt út tó mílgemete, C. D. v. 382, 2. Add

ofer-gemet

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Lóca nú þæt þú ofergemet ne wilnige, nú ðú hí (God and Alypius) tógædere metest, woldest cunnan God swá swá Alippius vide ergo ne impudenter velis satis Deum nosse, qui Alypium non satis nosti, Solil. H. 17, 9. Add

riht-gefég

(n.)
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a proper joining Eall þæs scipes fæt wæs ácweht and for ðám mycclum ýþum tólýsed and tósloþen fram eallum his rihtgefégum (rihtgefongum, v. l.) totum vas navis quassatum nimiis fluctibus, ab omni fuerat sua compage dissolutum, Gr. D. 248, 26

Linked entry: ge-fég

riht-geset

(adj.)
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properly appointed, canonical On ýtemystre tíde rihtgesetre in ultima hora canonica, Angl. xiii. 394, 412

seofon-getel

(n.)
Grammar
seofon-getel, es; n.
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Seven of anything Seofengetelum ebdomadibus, An. Ox. 1533

stæf-gefég

Grammar
stæf-gefég, <b>I a.</b>
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Add Ꝥ híw byð gecíged omoeuteleuton swá oft swá se middel and se ýtemesta dǽl geendað on gelícum stæfgefége, Angl. viii. 332, 13. Add Stæfgeféges litteraturae, i. scripturę, An. Ox. 7, 219. Ic ne oncneów stæfgefǽg non cognovi litteraturam, Ps. L. 70

un-gefæd

(n.)
Grammar
un-gefæd, es; n.
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Indiscretion Hit is gewuna on manegum preóst-híredum ꝥ mid miclum ungesceáde and ungefade (inrationabiliter atque indiscrete) sume þá preóstas þe woruldwelan habbað . . . scolon máran and creáslicran fódan habban on mynstre, Chrd. 13, 14

Linked entry: ge-fæd

un-gefeá

(n.)
Grammar
un-gefeá, an ; m.
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Unhappiness Ðá men þe mǽstne dreám bútan Godes ondrysnum úp áhebbað hér on wornlde, hié þonne eft mǽste unrótnesse bútan ende and mǽstne ungefeán bútan ǽnigre blisse hiá onfóó. Nap. 64

Linked entry: ge-feá

un-geméde

(adj.)
Grammar
un-geméde, adj.
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Perhaps this word should be taken as a noun; see mád-mód

un-gemét

(adj.)
Grammar
un-gemét, adj.
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Not met with, not experienced Ungeméttum inexperto, An. Ox. 2488

Linked entry: ge-métan

un-gerec

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Ungerec (printed -reo) gewarð tumultus fieret, Mt. R. 27, 24. On þám ungerece (ingerece, v.l. ), Bd. 2, 9; Sch. 147. 15. Add

wæter-gelád

(n.)
Grammar
wæter-gelád, n. (not m.

wel-getýd

(adj.)
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well-instructed, well-educated In eallum þingum hé bið welgetýd, E. S. xxxix. 354

wyrt-geard

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Þá gelǽdde hé hine tó þæs wyrtgeardes (-túnes, v.l.) gate eum duxit ad horti aditum, Gr. D. 25, 14. Paulinus onféng þá nytte þæs wyrtgeardes (horti). And þá þá se cyningces áðum gelómlíce eóde in þone wyrtgeard (hortum), 180, 28. Add