Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

hrýfing

(n.)
Grammar
hrýfing, e; f.

Roughnessscab

Entry preview:

Roughness, scab, crust of a healing wound Smire mid hunige ðæt ðý ðé raþor sió hrýfing of fealle, L. M. 1, 35; Lchdm. ii. 86, 4

mǽr-pytt

(n.)
Grammar
mǽr-pytt, es; m.

A pit that forms part of a boundary

Entry preview:

A pit that forms part of a boundary (?) On ðone mǽrpyt; of ðam pytte, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 439, 1. Eást tó mǽrpytte, ii. 250, 5

mór-denu

(n.)
Grammar
mór-denu, e; f.

A swampy or fenny valley

Entry preview:

A swampy or fenny valley Of ðam stocce inn on mórdene; of mórdene inn on ðere saltstrét. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 384, 30. Cf. mór-fæsten

blǽd-gifa

(n.)
Grammar
blǽd-gifa, an; m.

A giver of prosperity, happiness, or gloryprosperitatis, beatitudinis, vel gloriæ largitor

Entry preview:

A giver of prosperity, happiness, or glory; prosperitatis, beatitudinis, vel gloriæ largitor Beorht blǽdgifa bright giver of prosperity, Andr. Kmbl. 167; An. 84: 1311; An. 656

scín-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
scín-líc, adj.
Entry preview:

Of the nature of an apparition, phantasmal Suoefno and næhta scínelíco sompnia et noxia fantasmata (the glosser seems to have read noctes fantasmaticae? ), Rtl. 180, 16

stílen

(adj.)
Grammar
stílen, adj.
Entry preview:

Of steel, hard as steel Ðære stýlenan helle, Salm. Kmbl. 978 ; Sal. 490. Ne mihte ic of ðære heortan heardne áðringan stýlenne stán, 1009 ; Sal. 506

Linked entry: stýlen

un-águnnen

(adj.)
Grammar
un-águnnen, adj.

Not begunwithout a beginning

Entry preview:

Not begun, without a beginning On unágunnenre Godcundnysse and on ongunnenre menniscnysse of Divinity without beginning and of humanity with beginning, Homl. Th. iii. 292, 16

Linked entry: á-ginnan

wuldor-mága

(n.)
Grammar
wuldor-mága, an; m.

A man who will attain the glory of heavenan heir of heaven

Entry preview:

A man who will attain the glory of heaven, an heir of heaven Se wuldormága (St. Guthlac), Exon. Th. 167, 28; Gú. 1067. v. next word

breóst-þing

(n.)
Grammar
breóst-þing, es; n.
Entry preview:

A part of the breast On þám eahtoþan mónþe him beóð þá breóstþing wexende (the organs of the breast are develop-ing), Lch. iii. 146, 18

swelgend

(n.)
Grammar
swelgend, e; f.
Entry preview:

Add: a swallet, swallow (v. D.D.) Tó þǽre sweliende, of þǽre sweliende, Cht. E. 266, 27. On Wígmundes swelgende; of ðan swelgende, C.D. v. 376, 10

Sceáfa

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

The name of a king of the Lombards Sceáfa weóld Longbeardum, Exon. Th. 320, 21; Víd. 33. See also Scyld Scéfing, Beo. Th. 7; B. 4

Linked entry: Scéfing

wel-weorþ

(adj.)
Grammar
wel-weorþ, adj.
Entry preview:

Of high esteem, of great account Hé swá wuldorfulle and Gode swá welweorþe (wel weorþe ? v. weorþ III a) leóde geneósian wolde Lchdm. iii. 432, 31

bær-líc

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
bær-líc, es; m.? Substitute: bær-lic; adj.

Of barley

Entry preview:

Of barley Of hláwe tó bærlice crofte, C. D. vi. 79, 10. [ꝥ acersǽd hwǽte . . . ꝥ (acersǽd) bærlic . . . ꝥ acersǽd áten, Chr. 1124; P. 254, 15.]

cwénn

(n.)
Grammar
cwénn, cwén , Exon. 25b; Th. 73, 34; Cri. 1199; acc. s.

a woman

Entry preview:

of a woman

dolc-swaðu

(n.)
Grammar
dolc-swaðu, scars, Ps. Lamb. 37, 6, = dolh-swaðu; pl. nom.
Entry preview:

of dolh-swæþ

feóde

(v.; part.)
Grammar
feóde, pl. feódon hated,
  • Ps. Th. 118, 163
  • ;
p.
Entry preview:

of feón, feógan

fer-grunden

(v.; part.)
Grammar
fer-grunden, ground to pieces, mangled,
  • Chr. 937
  • ;
  • Erl. 114, 9
, = for-grunden; pp.
Entry preview:

of for-grindan

ferhþ-grim

fierce of spirit

Entry preview:

fierce of spirit

fióde

(v.; part.)
Grammar
fióde, hated,
  • Bt. 39, 1
  • ;
  • Fox 212, 5
; p.
Entry preview:

of fiógan, fión

fleág

(v.; part.)
Grammar
fleág, flew,
  • Exon. 46a
  • ;
  • Th. 157, 9
  • ;
  • Gú. 889
  • ;
Entry preview:

p. of fleógan