gímeleás-ness
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Carelessness Be speres gémeleásnesse of carelessness with a spear Ll. Th. i. 84, 11. Be ðám forþgewitenum gémeleásnissum ( praeteritas neglegentias ), þá þe hé on cildháde gefremede, Bd. 3, 27; Sch. 320, 1.
gor
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Mængc wiþ þá sápan and þæs æpples gor, Lch. iii. 36, 31
ge-ǽnan
to unite oneself ⬩ join
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to unite oneself to, join with Be ðám þingum þe ðú mé ǽr sédest þat þú . . . for nánum þingum eft tó gecyrran nolde . . . ácsige ic þé hweðer þú áðer oððe for (fór, MS.) heora lufum, oððe for éniges þinges lufum hym eft tó geénan (géénan, MS.) wille,
sweðung
A poultice
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A poultice Sweþing wiþ swile . . . gecnuwa ða wyrte, gemeng wið ǽges ðæt hwíte, beclǽm ðæt lim mid ðe se swile on sié, Lchdm. ii. 74, 24. Sealfæ and sweþinge wið swylum, 6, 30. Gif hé sweðunga (swoðunga, R. Ben.
Linked entry: swoðung
wyrm-sele
A serpent-hall ⬩ a place where there are serpents (hell)
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A serpent-hall [cf. the hall, thick swarming now, With ... scorpion, and asp ... Cerastes horned, hydrus, and elops drear, And dipsas, Par.
Linked entry: wyrm-geard
nigon
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add: inflected Mid nigonum þára níwena scipa, Chr. 897; P. 90, 23. (1 a) with a pronoun :-- Ðæt wé tellan á .x. men tógædere, and se yldesta bewiste þá nigene, Ll.
mere-wíf
A water-witch ⬩ woman living in a lake
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A water-witch, woman living in a lake (Grendel's mother), Beo. Th. 3042; B. 1519
feówer
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Tódǽlan on feówer, Angl. viii. 306, 30. with a pronoun or indef. numeral adj. Hé him wegas tǽcneð feówer eallum, Rä. 52, 7.
hangian
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Wǽron wit twégen on ánum olfende, and wit unc simble ondréden hwonne wit sceoldon feallan of þám olfende, and miccle má wit hangodan be þám olfende þonne wit þǽron sǽton, Shrn. 38, 17.
ge-nerian
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Hé wolde ús from écum wítum generian, and ús gelǽdan on þá écean eádignesse, 97, 18. with gen.
ge-sceád
separation, distinction, difference ⬩ power of distinguishing, reason, discretion, discrimination, an account, a reckoning, argument ⬩ distinctio, discretio, distantia
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On gesceád witan to understand, Exon. 83 b; Th. 314, 3; Mód. 8. Gesceád witan, cunnan [with gen; cf. the same phrase in O. Sax. wissun thingo giskéd; and the Ger. bescheid wissen] to be able to distinguish between things, to understand them, Homl.
stig-weard
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a steward (v. stig), one who has the superintendence of household affairs ; especially matters connected with the table.
Linked entry: stí-weard
án-lípe
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MSS.) wǽron, búton hí bútú ætsomne sién, Past. 125, 3. of number, single (with one) Wísdóm is án ánlépe cræft ðǽre sáwle, and ðeáh wé witon ðæt hé sié betera ðonne ealle ðá óðre cræftas, Bt. 32, 1; F. 116, 3.
Linked entries: án-lépe ǽn-lípe synder-lípe
gryre
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God sealde him wítes clom and egsan gryre ( inspired him with terror ), Sat. 454: Dan. 593. terribleness, what causes terror or horror Se légdraca, grimlic gryre, B. 3041.
on-gildan
to pay (a penally for), to be punished for (with gen. acc. of crime or clause) ⬩ to pay ⬩ to give an offering, to offer
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to pay (a penally for), to be punished for (with gen. acc. of crime or clause) Banan heardlíce grimme ongildaþ, ðæs hié oft gilp brecaþ, Salm. Kmbl. 265; Sal. 132. Hé ðæs wraðe ongeald, Cd. Th. 111, 26; Gen. 1861: 253, 20; Dan. 598.
spyrian
to track ⬩ go in a track ⬩ follow ⬩ make a journey in search of something ⬩ to make a track ⬩ go ⬩ to enquire ⬩ investigate ⬩ examine ⬩ to enquire after or into ⬩ seek to know about ⬩ to search after ⬩ seek to attain ⬩ to ask ⬩ investigare, indagare, sciscitari ⬩ to track; to investigate; to ask
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dye (ink), stepped on to me, journeyed with footprints black, Exon.
Linked entries: æfter-spyrian spirian
in-tó
Into
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Into. with dat Ðú gǽst intó ðam arce . . . and twegen gemacan ðú lǽtst intó ðam arce ingredieris arcam . . . et bina induces in arcam. Gen. 6, 18, 19. Noe eode intó ðam arce ingressus est Noe in arcam, 7, 7. Ic gange intó ðære byrig in urbem vado.
for-hogian
to disdain ⬩ to disdain
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Th. i. 332, 34. with infin. Hé forhogode tógénes grétan, Gr. D. 34, 6. with dat. infin. Þætte wíf forhogiað heora bearn tó fédanne ut mulieres filios nutrire contemnant, Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 80, 12.
helan
to conceal from
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Sió heá lár is betere manegum monnum tó helanne, and feáwum tó secganne, Past. 459, 9. with preps, to conceal from (wiþ, fram): Ðonne hí he[o]lað (the o is written above the line) from monnum (hominibiis occultando) ðæt hí secggan scoldon, and secgað
hwǽr
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So it was with Beowulf ... he himself knew not through what his parting with the world should come to pass, B. 3062: 2029 (?).