méting
A painting ⬩ picture
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On óðre wísan wé sceáwiaþ métinge, and on óðre wísan stafas. Ne gǽþ ná máre tó métinge búton ðæt ðú hit geseó and herige, 186, 5-7
grindel
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Guest, English Rhythms, ii. 40, note 1, observes 'As far as we can judge from the drawing which accompanies the description, the grindel was a kind of heavy iron grating, which rather encumbered the prisoner by its weight, than fixed him in its grasp.
teartlíce
Sharply, severely
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Wé beóþ forswǽlede teartlícor crememur acrius, Hymn. Surt. 5, 15: Homl. Th. i. 330, 34. Sý hé ealra teartlícost geþreád acrius coherceatur, R. Ben. 129, 10
þeáw-líc
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Wé willaþ secgan hú ðás lác tó ús belimpaþ æfter ðeáwlícum andgite, Homl. Th. i. 116, 33: ii. 110, 26: 210, 27: Wulfst. 234, 10
á-pinsian
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Hit geríst ꝥ wé þisra epacta gerýnu ápinsiun, 300, 48: 305, 47: 322, 23. Ðæt getæl is tó ápinsianne, hwæt hit getácnað, Wlfst. 245, 9. Mid willan sýfernysse bót byð ápinsud (pensatur), Scint. 42, 17. Add:
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be-hringed
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Mid costungum wé sint ǽghwonon útan behrincgde (-hring-, v. l. ). Past. 163, 16. Ábútan beringede mid leahtrum circumdati vitiis, Scint. 103, II
dim-nes
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Utan wé geþencan dómes dæg and dimnessa helle grundes, Hml. A. 168, 113. a dark place On sweartum dimnessum latibulis carceralibus, An. Ox. 3144. dimness of sight Wiþ eágena dymnysse, Lch. i. 176, 16. darkness, evil Dimnesse gástas chao, Wrt.
eft-gemyndig
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Eftgemyndig wé aron, Mt. L. 27, 63. Eftgemyndigo (-myndge, R.), Lk. L. 24, 8: Jn. L. (R.) 2, 17. Eftgemyndgo (-e, R.), 22. Wosað gié eftgemyndgo reminiscamini, 16, 4
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ge-prician
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gepricud ( stimulatus ) on unrótnysse gyltes, Scint. 79, 8. to mark with dots Seó forme ábécédé ys bútan pricon, and seó óðer ys gepricod on þá swýðran healfe, and seó þrydde on þá wynstran healfe, Angl. viii. 332, 43. to note Se lust ys tó witanne swá wé
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ge-swencness
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For þám þingum swá monigra geswencnissa ꝥ wé ealle þá niht férdon mid þurste gewǽcte, Nar. II. 29. Swá monigra geswencnissa and earfeðo, 14. 23
ge-þeahtere
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. ¶ rendering the Latin consul :-- Hwæt wule wé cweþan be þínum twám sunum, þá sint ealdormen and geþeahteras quid dicam liberos consulares?, Bt. 10; F. 28, 31. Add
full-gearwian
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Oð ðæt gé weorðen fullgearowode mid ðǽm gǽsðlican cræfte . . . wé fullgearowode weorðað . . . quoadusque induamini virtute ex alto . . . induimur . . ., Past. 385, 4-7
lungre
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Flódwylm ne mæg manna ǽnigne ofer Meotudes ést lungre gelettan, An. 518 : 1423: 1474. of unchecked action Ne magan wé him lungre láð ætfæstan (cf. hine God forstód, 1337), An. 1349. See preceding word
lettan
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Ox. 8b, 6. the action from which one is hindered given in genitive Wé þé þæs nú nellað lettan þæs þú ǽr geþóht hæfdest propositi tui ortnonomias dirumpere nolumus, Guth. Gr. 123, 20
stille
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Add Sege ús nú ꝥ sóðe búton ǽlcon leáse, and wé nellað þé ámeldian, ac hit eall stille lǽtan, Hml. S. 23, 591. 2 b. Add On þǽre nihte, þá hit stillost wæs, Gr. D. 238, 11.
westan-norþan
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From the north-west. Cf. westan Hit ( Italy ) belíð Wendelsǽ ymb eall útan búton westannorðan, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 22, 18. in phrases (or compounds) marking position, to the north-west Be-westannorðan ðære byrig, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 22. 5
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bityr-líce
bitterly ⬩ amare
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bitterly; amare Petrus weóp bityrlíce Petrus flevit amare, Mt. Bos. 26, 75
ge-ner
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Betere wé faran ús intó þám niycclan scræfe . . . and ðǽr wé magon on genere wunian, Hml. S. 23, 204. Gif. . . hí manna ǽnig on genere heólde, 50.
brégan
fear, terror ⬩ To give fear, frighten, make afraid, terrify, astonish ⬩ terrere, pavefacere, stupefacere
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We hí scylen manian and brégean we should admonish and frighten them, Past. 53, 8; Hat. MS. Sume wíf us brégdon some women astonished us, Lk. Bos. 24, 22
ofer-hycgan
to despise, contemn, disdain, scorn ⬩ contemnere, aspernere ⬩ to be puffed up
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Wé hine mid swá micle máran unryhte oferhycgeaþ swá hé læs forhogaþ ðæt hé ús ðonne giet tó him spane, siððan wé hiene oferhycggeaþ tanto graviori improbitate contemnitur, quanto contemtus adhuc vocare non dedignatur, 52, 4; Swt. 407, 17-19.