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DUN

(adj.)
Grammar
DUN, adj.

DUN, a colour partaking of brown and black fuscus, aquĭlus

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DUN, a colour partaking of brown and black; fuscus, aquĭlus Dun fuscus, Cot. 141, 147: natius [ = nātīvus? ], Ælfc. Gl. 79; Som. 72, 86; Wrt. Voc. 46, 43. Dunn balidus [ = βαλιόs? ], Wrt. Voc. 289, 28.

Linked entry: dunn

dún-elfen

(n.)
Grammar
dún-elfen, e; f. [-ælfen a fairy]

A down or mountain fairy castălis, ĭdis

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A down or mountain fairy; castălis, ĭdis; f. one of the muses; castălĭdes, um, f. Ælfc. Gl. 113; Som. 79, 112; Wrt. Voc. 60, 19

DUNG

(n.)
Grammar
DUNG, e; f.

DUNG fimus, stercus

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DUNG; fimus, stercus Ic hine bedelfe, and ic hine beweorpe mid dunne fŏdiam circa illam et mittam stercŏra, Lk. Skt. Hat. 13, 8

Linked entries: ding dyng dinig

Dunnan tún

(n.)
Grammar
Dunnan tún, es; m.

Dunna's town = Dunnington

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Dunna's town = Dunnington

dunnian

(v.)
Grammar
dunnian, he dunnaþ, pl.dunniaþ ; p. ode; pp. od

To make of a dun or a dark colour, to obscure, darken obscūrāre

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To make of a dun or a dark colour, to obscure, darken; obscūrāre Se móna ða beorhtan steórran dunnaþ [MS. dunniaþ] the moon obscures the bright stars, Bt. 4; Fox 6, 35

dún-sǽte

(n.)
Grammar
dún-sǽte, gen. -sǽta; dat. -sǽtum,sǽtan ; pl. m. [dún a mountain, -sǽte dwellers, inhabitants]

Mountaineers, inhabitants of the mountains of Wales montĭcŏlæ Walliæ

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D. 9; Th. i. 356, 16-20

dúr

(n.)
Grammar
dúr, es; n.

A door

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A door. v. dúru, pl. nom. n. v. dór, n

dúre-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
dúre-leás, adj.

Doorless sine jānua

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Doorless; sine jānua Dúreleás is ðæt hús the house is doorless, Anlct. 153, 24, col. 2

Linked entry: dúru-leás

dúreras

(n.)
Grammar
dúreras, m.

Folding doors

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Folding doors; valvæ, Cot. 183

dúre-þínen

(n.)

a female door-keeper

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a female door-keeper, Jn. Bos. 18,6

durfon

(v.)

laboured, perished

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laboured, perished; p. pl. of deorfan

durne

(adj.)
Grammar
durne, adj.

Retired, secret reclūsus, secrētus

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Retired, secret; reclūsus, secrētus On ðone durnan [MS. durnen] crundel; of ðam durnan crundelle on ðone þorn to the retired barrow; from the retired barrow to the thorn, Cod. Dipl. 1053; A. D. 854; Kmbl. v. 105, 26

dúr-stodl

(n.)
Grammar
dúr-stodl, es; n.

A door-postpostis

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A door-post; postis Dúr-stodl postes, Wrt. Voc. 290, 15

Linked entry: dúru-stod

dúru-stod

(n.)
Grammar
dúru-stod, e; f. [stod = studu a post]

A door-post ostii postis

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A door-post; ostii postis, Cot. 157

Linked entry: dúr-stodl

dúru-þegn

(n.)
Grammar
dúru-þegn, es; m. [þegen a servant]

A door-keeperjānĭtor

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A door-keeper; jānĭtor Dúruþegnum wearþ hildbedd stýred the death-bed was spread for the door-keepers, Andr. Kmbl. 2182; An. 1092

dust-sceáwung

(n.)
Grammar
dust-sceáwung, e; f. [sceáwung a beholding, contemplation]

A dust-viewing, contemplation of dust pulvĕris spectātio vel contemplātio

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A dust-viewing, contemplation of dust; pulvĕris spectātio vel contemplātio He gewát from ðære dustsceáwunga he departed from the contemplation of the dust, Homl. Blick. 113, 29

DWELAN

(v.)
Grammar
DWELAN, ic dwele, ðú dwelest, dwilst, he dweleþ, dwilþ , pl. dwelaþ; p. ic, he dwæl, ðú dwǽle, pl. dwǽlon; pp. dwolen; v. n.

To be led into error, err in errōrem dūci, errāre

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To be led into error, err; in errōrem dūci, errāre

dwild

(n.)
Grammar
dwild, dwyld,es ; n.

Error, heresy, a prodigy, spectre error hærĕsis = άίρεσιs, prodĭgium, spectrum

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Error, heresy, a prodigy, spectre; error, hærĕsis = άίρεσιs, prodĭgium, spectrum Wærþ mycel dwyld on Cristendóm there was much error in Christendom, Chr. 1129; Erl. 258, 29.

dwimor

(n.)
Grammar
dwimor, dwimer, dwymer, es; n.

An illusion, delusion, apparitionphantom; error, fallācia, phantasms = φάντασμά

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An illusion, delusion, apparition; phantom; error, fallācia, phantasms = φάντασμά

DWÍNAN

(v.)
Grammar
DWÍNAN, ic dwíne, ðu dwínest, dwínst, he dwíneþ, dwínþ, pl. dwínaþ; p. dwán, pl. dwinon; pp. dwinen

To pine, fade, DWINDLE, waste awaytabescĕre

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To pine, fade, DWINDLE, waste away;tabescĕre Ðonne dwíneþ seó wamb sóna then soon will the belly dwindle, Herb. 2, 4; Lchdm. i. 82, 2. Dwinon tabuĕrunt, Cot. 190

Linked entries: a-dwínan tó-dwínan