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el-þeód

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R. 21, 33. ¶ especially in reference to enforced absence from a person's native country: Ðolian earfeðu suá suá mon sceal on elðióde labores velut in aliena pati, Past. 253, 11. On elþeóde ádrǽfan in exilium agere, Ors. 5, 9; S. 232, 20.

el-þeódig

foreignstrangerforeign

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In bibyrignisa ellðiódigra (elðeódigra, R.) in sepulturam peregrinorum, Mt. L. 27, 7. From hellðiódigum ab alienis, 17, 26. Sume hé on elþiódige forsende, Ors. 3, 7; S. 120, 13.

emb-rin

Grammar
emb-rin, embrin (-en), æmbern

an urn

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an urn Embrin bothoma (the m is altered into ni, Corp. Gl. H. 25, 146), Wülck. Gl. 9, 18. Embren bothoma, 358, 19. Æmbern bothonia, 195, 20. Embrin balus, 275, 12. Substitute:

ende-byrdan

Grammar
ende-byrdan, -byrdian
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Gif hwám þises sealmsanges endebyrdnes mislícaþ, endebyrde (ordinet) hé sél, R. Ben. 44, 15. Mynster tó endebyrdienne ordinandum monasterium, Bd. 4, 23; Sch. 467, 12. Endebyrde digesta, i. ordinata, An. Ox. 185. Add:

ende-byrdnes

Grammar
ende-byrdnes, (-bred-, in Northern specimens).

a rowseriesa rankgradedegreerankpositiondegreean orderorderorderordermethodregulationorderingan injunctionordinance

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R. 1, 3. Þurh (be, v. l.) endebyrdnesse, Gr.

ende-deáþ

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Substitute: Perhaps however the passage should read Líf bútan deáþe or líf bútan ende; either form would suit the metre better, and (the former especially) would be parallel with the contrasts that follow, gioguð bútan ylde, hǽlu bútan sáre, &c

endemestness

Grammar
endemestness, endemest-ness (? ende-néhstness)

extremity

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extremitate, R. Ben. I. 33, 15. Substitute:

endian

(v.)

to completefinish

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R. 13, 4. Hé his líf wæs endiende, Bd. 5, 19; Sch. 654, 4. Endedre finito, i. expleto, An. Ox. 1336. to come to an end Hér endaþ seó æftre fróferbóc, Bt. 21; F. 76, 2: 35, 6; F. 170, 23. On heora endunge þonne hié endiaþ, 16, 3; F. 56, 26.

endlyfta

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R.) tíde, Mt. 20, 6: Bl. H. 93, 6. Add

endung

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Æt þæs godspelles endunge qua perlecta, R. Ben. 35, 21. Add

engel

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R. 3, 18. Ðurh ðone ængel (engel, v. l.), Past. 69, 10. Add

Englisc

(n.)

(the) Englishthe English language

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R. 105, 10. In Englisc gereorde (on Englisce reorde, v. l.) in lingua Anglorum, Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 481, 12. Ær wǽrun Rómánisce biscepas, siþþan wǽrun Englisce, Chr. 690; P. 40, 11.

eorcnan-stán

(n.)

a jeweltopazpearl

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R. 7, 6. [See Grmm. D. M. (trans.) p. 1217.]

eorl

a hero

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Add: a man of rank or gentle birth Eorl herus, An. Ox. 53, 6. Weorðscipes wyrðe, ǽlc be his mǽðe, eorl and ceorl, þegen and þeóden, Ll. Th. i. 190, 13. Gif wið eorles birele man geligeð .xii. scill. gebéte.

eorþe

the groundsoillandearththe eartha landcountrysoilmoulddust

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Gié aron salt earðes, Rtl. 118, 3. Mé is geseald ǽlc anweald on heofonan and on eorþan (eorðo, L., eorþe, R.), Mt. 28, 18: Bl. H. 49, 16.

Linked entry: eorþ-lic

eorþ-wæstm

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Gif mon æppla hæbbe oðþe hwylces óþres cynnes eorðwæstmas (poma aut nascentia leguminum), R. Ben. 63, 14. Add:

esne

a servanta man

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R. 10, 24, 25: Shrn. 196, 11. Þú esne náwiht, Mt. R. 18, 32. Eádgo biðon esnas (servi) ðá ðá ðe se drihten gemoetað wæccendo, Lk. L. 12, 37. a young man Ðe esne adolescens, Mt. L. 19, 20, 22. Ging esne, Mk. L. R. 14, 51: juvenis, 16, 5.

esne-mann

(n.)
Grammar
esne-mann, es; m.

A servanthireling

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R. 10, 13

etan

to devourconsumedestroy

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R. L. 10, 10. Ic et exedi, Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 36. of things, of the action of physical agents, where it is gradual Hine æt se cancor, Hml. S. 6, 284.

éþian

(v.)
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Oeðað (ocðiga, R.) spirat, Jn. L. 3, 8. Swá swá se man swelteþ, swí swylteþ eác þá nýtenu, and gelíce hí ealle éþiað (spirant), Gr. D. 264, 20. Þonne þá wyrmas éðedon, þonne eóde him of þý múðe mid þý oroðe swylce byrnende þecelle, Nar. 14, 13.