teám-byrst
The failure to produce a geteáma in a suit.
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Ðá týmde Wulfstán hine ( the stolen slave about whom the case had arisen) tó Æðelstáne; ða cende hé tém and lét ðone forberstan (he admitted having sold the slave to Wulfstan, but would not declare from whom he had obtained it) ...
bearn-eácen
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Wíf þæt sý bearneácen, and heó cenne cniht, Wlfst. 2, 20. Gif wíf biþ bearneácen (four months gone with child), feówer mónoð Lch. iii. 144, 19. Witan on bearneácenum wífe hwæþeres cynnes bearn heó cennan sceal, 6. Bearneácnum, ii. 330, 6.
ge-cynde
Natural ⬩ innate ⬩ inborn ⬩ genial ⬩ natūrālis ⬩ innātus ⬩ ingĕnĭtus ⬩ ingĕnuus
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Céne men gecynde ríce bold men [have] inborn sway, Exon. 89 b; Th. 337, 3; Gn. Ex. 59. Hæfdan him gecynde cyningas twegen they had two kings of their own race, Bt. Met. Fox 1, 11; Met. 1, 6
mancus
A mancus ⬩ the eighth of a pound ⬩ the sum of thirty pence
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Gedǽle hé ǽlcum mæssepreóste binnan Cent mancus goldes, Chart. Th. 471, 19. Ágyfe man mínra (king Alfred ) ealdormanna ǽlcum án hund mangcusa . . . and Æðeréde ealdormenn án sweord on hundteóntigum mancusum, 489, 29-33.
meox
Muck ⬩ dung ⬩ ordure ⬩ dirt
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Mixe, horwe ceno, i. luto, Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 70. Of myxe dustes de fece pulveris, Hy. Surt. 136, 1. Meoxa stercorum, 484, 22
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CUMBOL
a sign, image, military standard, ensign, banner ⬩ signum, imago, signum militare, vexillum ⬩ morbi signum, vulnus
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To weallgeatum wígend þrungon, céne under cumblum the warriors thronged to the wall-gates, bold beneath their ensigns, Andr.
grymetan
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., and add Ic grimette (grymetige, [grimmete, 12 cent.] v. ll.) fremo, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 168, 1. Grymetteþ frendit, i. stridet dentibus, rugiet, Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 55: gemit, clamat, 59.
rǽde-here
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Alexandres næs ná má geslægen ðonne hundtwelftig on ðæm rǽdehere in exercitu Alexandri centum et viginti equites defuere, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 124, 21. Ǽgðer ge an gangehere ge on rǽdehere (rád-, MS. C.), 4, 1; Swt. 154, 24.
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ǽg-hwǽr
everywhere ⬩ ubique ⬩ in every respect ⬩ in every way ⬩ omnino
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Fox 10, 116; Met. 10, 58. in every respect, in every way; omnino Eofore eom áéghwǽr cénra I am in every respect bolder than a wild boar. Exon. 110b; Th. 423, 9; Rä. 41,18: Ps. Th. 102,14
berie
a berry ⬩ a grape
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Se wíngeard hafað berian (uvas), on ðám bergean beóð cende swylce meregrota, Nar. 37, 28
hund-teóntig
A hundred
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A hundred Hundteóntig centum, Ælfc. Gr. 49; Som. 49, 44. Hundteóntig geára wæs Abraham Abraham was a hundred years old, Homl. Th. i. 92, 20. Joseph leofode hundteóntig geára and tín tó eácan Joseph lived a hundred and ten years, Swt. A. S.
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nergend
A saviour ⬩ preserver
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Ealra fǽmnena cwén cende ðone sóþan Scyppend and ealles folces Férfrend, and ealles middangeardes Hǽlend, and ealra gásta Nergend, and ealrasáula Helpend, Blickl. Homl. 105, 18
gum-cynn
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Swá hwylc mægða swá þone magan (Beowulf) cende æfter gumcynnum, 944
gum-cynn
Mankind, men, a race, nation ⬩ humanum genus, gens, natio
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Swá hwylc mægþa ðone magan cende æfter gumcynnum whatever matron brought forth this son amongst men, Beo. Th. 1892; B. 944. We synt gumcynnes Geáta leóde we are of the race of the Gauts' people, 525; B. 260
stéran
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to cense, burn incense as a sacrifice Aaron stérde mid thimiama, Num. 16, 47. Ozias wolde offrian and stérde æt ðam weofode ( Uzziah went into the temple to burn incense upon the altar of incense, 2 Chron. 26, 16), Homl. Ass. 58, 185.
un-berende
not bearing ⬩ barren ⬩ sterile ⬩ unbearable
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Unbeorendu ( sterilis ) cende monige, Ps. Surt. ii. p. 186, 17. Ne biþ mid eów nán þing unberendes ne on mannum ne on nytenum, Deut. 7, 14. Ðæt unberende treó hé genimes palmitem non ferentem fructum tollet, Jn. Skt. Lind. 15, 2 margin.
un-friþ
absence of peace ⬩ hostilities ⬩ the state of being out of the king's peace
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Se cyng bæd Godwine eorl faran intó Cent mid unfriða, ac se eorl nolde ná geðwǽrian ðære infare, forþan him wæs láð tó ámyrrenne his ágenne folgað; 1048; Erl. 178, 8. For unfriðe on account of hostilities, L. N. P. L. 56; Th. ii. 298, 26.
hund-teóntig
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R. 13, 8 : (centum), 23. as adjective, alone Hundteántih ombras centum cados, Lk.
scip
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Ánes scipes se arcebisceop geúðe ðám folce tó Cent and óðres tó Wiltúnescíre, C. D. iii. 352, 17. Wé willað mid þám sceattum ús tó scype gangan, By. 40. Ðá ðe mid scipe líðað, Ps. Th. 106, 22.
dæg-steorra
The day star ⬩ lucifer, aurora
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Ǽr dægsteorran ic cende ðé ante luciferum genui te, Ps. Spl. 109, 4