Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

út-siht

Entry preview:

Add: — Traianus gefór on útsihte (profluvio ventris), Ors. 6, 10 ; S. 266, 4

and-lang

Entry preview:

Add Innan Lundene fenn; andlang súð on Temese, C. D. iii. 73, 21

á-wiht

Grammar
á-wiht, <b>. II.</b>
Entry preview:

Þára mínra áwiht feala on gewrit settan, Ll. Th. i. 58, 21. Add

rysc-bedd

(n.)
Grammar
rysc-bedd, es; n.

A bed of rushes

Entry preview:

A bed of rushes On ðæt riscbed, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 428, 31

æfter-writen

(adj.)
Grammar
æfter-writen, adj. (ptcpl.)

Written later on

Entry preview:

Written later on Ðá ǽrgenemnedan lǽcedómas and ðá æfterwritenan, Lch. ii. 186, 12

fyrn-dagas

Entry preview:

Swíðe eald feoh þe man on fyrndagum slóh, Hml. S. 23, 614. Add

heáh-miht

(n.)
Grammar
heáh-miht, e; f.

Great, excellent power

Entry preview:

Great, excellent power On his heáhmihtum in potestatibus ejus, Ps. Th. 150, 2

wilig-wíse

(n.)
Grammar
wilig-wíse, an; f.

Basket-wise

Entry preview:

Basket-wise Seó cyrice is sinhwyrfel on wilewísan geworht. Blickl. Homl. 125, 21

Linked entry: wile-wíse

snotor-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
snotor-líc, adj.

Wise, prudent, philosophical

Entry preview:

Wise, prudent, philosophical On snoterlícum lárum in philosophicis dogmatibus Hpt. Gl. 459, 63

hóh-hwyrfing

(n.)
Grammar
hóh-hwyrfing, e; f.

A turning on the heel so as to describe a circle [?];orbis,

Entry preview:

A turning on the heel so as to describe a circle [?]; orbis, Som

á-wirgende

(adj.)
Grammar
á-wirgende, adj. (ptcpl.)

Execrable

Entry preview:

Execrable Ꝥ ic beó gewrecen on þǽre áwyrigendan Gezabel, Hml. S. 18, 324

Linked entry: wirgende

land-folc

(n.)
Grammar
land-folc, es; n.
Entry preview:

The people of a land or country Hwæðer ðæt landfolc sí tó gefeohte stranglíc oððe untrumlíc populum, utrum fortis sit an infirmus, Num. 13, 20. Ðet landfolc hardlíce wiðstód the people resisted stoutly, Chr. 1046; Erl. 171, 4: 1070; Erl. 207, 22. On

Linked entry: folc

lencten-tíd

(n.)
Grammar
lencten-tíd, e; f.

Spring-timespringLent

Entry preview:

Spring-time, spring, Lent Ver is lenctentíd, Lchdm. iii. 250, 9. Hit wæs lenctentíd erat vernum tempus, Gen. 48, 7. On lengtentíde mónþes tíde mense verni temporis, Ex. 34, 18. Nǽfre on lenctentíde never in Lent, Wulfst. 305, 24. Hé on lenctentíd gesceóp

mót-lǽðu

(n.)

courtsassemblies

Entry preview:

in Chart. Th. 433, 22. The word occurs in a list of services due from the tenant of certain land, and seems to mean &#39;courts, assemblies&#39; Þreó mótlǽðu ungeboden on xii mónþum the tenant must attend three courts a year without summons.

Linked entry: -lǽðu

piþa

(n.)
Grammar
piþa, an; m.
Entry preview:

Pith, the soft inner part of the stem of a plant Eall se ðǽl se ðe ðæs treówes on twelf mónþum geweaxeþ, hé onginþ of ðám wyrtrumum, and swá upweardes gréwþ óþ ðone stemn, and siððan andlang ðæs piþan and andlang ðære rinde óþ ðone helm, Bt. 34, 10;

twifealdlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
twifealdlíce, adv.
Entry preview:

Doubly, to twice the amount On ðam sixtan dæge hig gaderodon twyfealdlíce -in die sexta collegerunt cibos duplices Ex. 16, 22: L. Alf. pol. 39; Th. i. 88, 4. Gé gedóþ hyne helle beam twyfealdlícor ðonne eów ( duplo quam vos ), Mt. Kmbl. 23, 15. in two

þúr

(n.)
Grammar
þúr, es; m.

Thor

Entry preview:

Thor, the god who most nearly corresponded to Jupiter; hence Jupiter is translated by Þúr Þunor oððe Ðúr Joppiter, Wrt. Voc. ii. 47, 33. Þúres módur Latona, 53, 4. On Galienus dagum ðæs káseres hét Necetius Róme burge geréfa hí lǽdan tó Þúres deófulgeldum

Linked entry: þúrs-dæg

un-gewidre

(n.)
Grammar
un-gewidre, un-gewidere, es; n.

Bad weatherstormtempest

Entry preview:

Bad weather, storm, tempest Hit biþ wiþ ǽghwylc ungewidro gescylded, ðæt ðǽr nǽfre nǽnig dǽl regnes ne ungewidres in cuman ne mæg, Blickl. Homl. 125, 31-3. Gif ðé þince ðæt ðú óþerne máran lǽcedóm dón ne durre for ungewiderum, Lchdm. ii. 254, 2. Is ðeós

an-bíd

Grammar
an-bíd, (-bid?).
Entry preview:

Hé áhsode hwæt his anbíd wǽre ( quae est expectatio mea?, 38, 9), Ps. Th. 39, arg. Hit is eldung and anbíd þæs héhstan déman. For þám anbíde . . . , Bt. 38, 3; F. 202, 17. On ðǽm anbíde ðe hé hira fandige interveniente correptionis articulo, Past. 153

fers

Entry preview:

Add: a verse of poetry Engla sum . . . þás vers him mid gyldenum stafum áwritene on þám handum betǽhte . . . þǽra versa anginne þe benyðan þám forman verse stant, healfe þá vers gebyriað tó þám termene, Angl. viii. 325, 46-326, 10. sentence, verse of