racente
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A chain, fetter Licgaþ mé ymbe írenbendas, rídeþ acerntan sál, Cd. Th. 24, 3; Gen. 372. Gebunden mid gyldenre racentan vinctum compedibus aureis, Ors. 3, 9 ; Swt. 128, 12. Gerǽped mid his racentan, Met. 13, 8 : 25, 37 : 26, 78.
Linked entry: racete
ge-sete
A seat, habitation, house ⬩ sedes, domicilium, habitatio ⬩ habitatio, sedes, domicilium
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Geseotu, Cd. 227; Th. 302, 20; Sat. 602. Ða cynelícan burh porres and his cynelícan geseto ipsam urbem regiam pori domumque, Nar. 4, 20. To heora gesetum to their lairs, Blickl. Homl. 199, 7
Linked entry: ge-setu
ge-manian
To admonish, exhort, prompt, remind, remember ⬩ admonere, hortari, suggerere, in memoriam rei reducere, recordari
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Oft mec geómor sefa gemanode oft my sad spirit has admonished me, Exon. 50 a; Th. 174, 22; Gú. 1181.
Linked entry: ge-monian
á-cweþan
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Add: to say, utter, declare Hé ácwæð hine fram his hyldo he proclaimed him out of his favour, Gen. 304. Hí hogodon hú hí fácen and unriht ácwǽdon cogitaverunt et locuti sunt nequitiam, Ps. Th. 72, 6.
éhtend
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Add: a pursuer, assailant (cf. éhtan, <b>I, III</b>) Scipia sǽde þæt hé þára ǽlces éhtend wolde beón, swá swá his feóndes, þe þæs wordes wǽre þæt from þóhte Scipio said he would pursue with relentless hostility every one who voted for leaving
ende-stæf
An end ⬩ conclusion ⬩ death
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Him þæt gehreówan mæg, þonne heó endestæf eft gesceáwiað, Sat. 541. Hæfdon hí on rímcræfte áwriten wera endestæf they had written down the date of men's death, An. 135. Substitute:
ginne
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Under gynne grund under the broad earth, B. 1551. ample, of great amount Hé him grundwelan ginne sealde, hét þám sinhíwum sǽs and eorðan túddorteóndra teohha gehwilcre wæstmas fédan, Gen. 457
irþling
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S. 5, 225. a bird (some of the same Latin words are used for the wren. v. wrenna) Irðling cucuzata, Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 21. Eorþlinc birbiacaliolus, Hpt. 33, 241, 56
ǽfen-gereord
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Hé sæt mid him æt ðǽm ǽfengereordum, Bl. H. 73, 5: 143, 6. Martha gearwode ðám Hǽlende ǽfengereordu, 67, 26. Heora underngereordu and ǽfengereordu hié mengdon tógædere, 99, 23
ge-sweorcan
To become dark ⬩ be darkened ⬩ saddened ⬩ angry
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Ðá geswearc se Godes man semninga and ongan heardlíce and bitterlíce wépan then suddenly the man of God become sad and began to weep sorely and bitterly; solutus est in lacrymis vir Dei, Bd. 4, 25; S. 600, 29: Exon. 77 a; Th. 290, 3; Wand. 59.
GRÉNE
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Genim ðære ylcan wyrte leáf ðonne heó grénost beó take the leaves of the same plant when it is greenest, Herb. 1, 4; Lchdm. i. 72, 7
Linked entry: groene
symbel-dæg
a feast-day, ⬩ a festival, day of a religious feast
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Se biscop sæt sume symbeldæge on ðære cierecan, Shrn. 78, 26. Ðone mǽron symbeldæg Drihtnes upstiges, Blickl. Homl. 131, 10. On symmeldæge (symbel-, MS. A.) per diem festum, Mk. Skt. 15, 6. His symbeldæg (natalitia) wé mérsiaþ, Rtl. 44, 28.
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LǼCE
A LEECH ⬩ doctor ⬩ physician ⬩ a leech
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Hé [the Pater Noster ] is lamena lǽce, Salm. Kmbl. 155; Sal. 77. Lǽteþ flint brecan his sconcan ne biþ him lǽce gód he shall cause the stones to break his legs, no doctor shall avail him, 206; Sal. 102.
hí-réd
A household, ⬩ house, ⬩ family, ⬩ the body of domestic retainers of a great man or king, ⬩ a court, ⬩ the members of a religious house, ⬩ a company, ⬩ band of associates
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Th. i. 314, 4: Cd. 226; Th. 302, 1; Sat. 592: 221; Th. 288, 5; Sat. 376. Se hírd on Seynt Eádmundsbiri the brotherhood at Bury St. Edmunds, Chart. Th. 574, 28, 33. Mín ówen hírd my own family, 575, 21. Hírédes fæder paterfamilias, Mt. Kmbl. 10, 25.
Linked entry: hý-réd
á-sáwan
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Add: to sow land Ðú þás eorþan áseówe mistlicum sǽde, Bt. 33, 4; F. 132, 26. Þá hét hé him bringan bere tó sǽde and ofer ǽlcne tíman ðá eorðan áseów, Hml. Th. ii. 144, 12. Ásáwen æcer seges, Wrt. Voc. i. 80, 47
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sælmerige
Brine
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Brine Sælmerige (sæll-, sel-; -mærige) salsamentum, Ælf. Gr. 30; Zup.192, 18
Linked entry: selmerige
FÝR
FIRE ⬩ a fire ⬩ hearth ⬩ ignis ⬩ fŏcus
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He sweartade fýre and áttre he blackened with fire and venom, Cd. 214; Th. 269, 26; Sat. 79 : 220; Th. 284, 21 : Sat. 325 : Beo. Th. 5183; B. 2595
boh
Anything curved or bent ⬩ the arm, shoulder ⬩ armus ⬩ humerus, lacertus ⬩ the arm of a tree, a BOUGH, branch ⬩ ramus, stipes, palmes ⬩ a branch of a family, offspring, progeny ⬩ propago ⬩ the bow of a ship ⬩ armus ⬩ armus ⬩ shoulder, bow of a ship ⬩ the shoulder, haunch ⬩ the shoulder of an animal
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He astrehte his bogas, óþ ða sǽ extendit palmites suos usque ad mare, Ps. Lamb. 79, 12. a branch of a family, offspring, progeny; propago Tyddrung oððe boh propago, Ælfc. Gr. 36; Som. 38, 49
Linked entry: bog
cirran
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Þá hí tó sǽ cóman, þá hét hí man cyrran, Chr. 1094; P. 229, 22. (2 a) with reflex. dat. :-- Hé forlét þá fyrde and cyrde him eft tó Lundene, Chr. 1016; P. 147, 12. of change in conduct, to turn, reform Hí geeácniað heora wíta, gif hí ǽr ende ne cyrrað
hýd
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</b> the shell of an oyster :-- Sǽ mec fédde . . . nú wile monna sum mín flǽsc etan . . . siððan hé mé of sídan seaxes orde hýd árýpeð, Rä. 76, 7. the skin of a human being Útewardre hýde cute summa, An. Ox. 50, 23.