FYRS
FURZE ⬩ furze-bushes ⬩ genista ⬩ rhamnus ⬩ ulex eurōpæus
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Ær-ðan undergǽton eówre þornas fyrs priusquam intellĭgĕrent spīnæ rhamnum, Ps. Lamb. 57, 10: Lchdm. iii. 86, 17.
heofone
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Heaven Heofone næs ná ǽr ǽrðan ðe se ælmihtiga wyrhta hí geworhte on anginne heaven was not before the almighty workman wrought it in the beginning, Hexam. i; Norm. 4. Heofenan ríce the kingdom of heaven, Homl. Th. i. 68, 2: 58, 4.
hyge-leás
Thoughtless ⬩ careless ⬩ foolish
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Thoughtless, careless, foolish Ne geríseþ biscopum ne æt hám ne on síðe tó higeleás [iuncglíc, MS.
in-byrdling
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Ǽlc werhádes man on eówrum mǽgðum and inbyrdlingum and geboht þeówa omne masculinum in generationibus vestris, tam vernaculus quam emptitius, 17, 12.
Linked entries: byrd-ling im-byrdling in-berdling in-byrding
ge-dræg
A dragging ⬩ band ⬩ multitude ⬩ tumult ⬩ tractus ⬩ turma ⬩ tumultus
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Eác ðon breost-ceare sin-sorgna gedreag sý æt him even when care of breast, multitude of constant sorrows be at him, Exon. 115 b; Th. 444, 10; Kl. 45. Ðǽr wæs fordénera gedræg there was a tumult of undone men, Andr. Kmbl. 85; An. 43.
ge-hreówan
To rue ⬩ repent ⬩ grieve ⬩ pity ⬩ pœnitere ⬩ dolere ⬩ miserere
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Mec æt heortan gehreáw I repented at heart [lit. it repented me at heart ], Exon. 29 b; Th. 91, 18; Cri. 1494 : Cd. 221; Th. 288, 2; Sat. 374
þreá-nídla
Painful constraint ⬩ restraint of punishment ⬩ oppression
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Ðonne wyrd and warnung winnaþ mid hira ðreánýdlan hwæðerne áðreóteþ ǽr when fate and prudence strive, each with its own hard constraint, which of the two tires first? 857; Sal. 428. Nealles sylfes willum ac for þreánédlan, Beo. Th. 4450; B. 2224.
Linked entry: -nídla
un-sǽlig
unhappy ⬩ unblest ⬩ miserable ⬩ unhappy ⬩ bringing misery
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Hí ( the good) fore góddǽdum blissiaþ, ða hý (the wicked ) unsǽlge ǽr forhogdun tó dónne, 79, 9; Cri. 1288. Hæleð unsǽlige ( the unbelieving Jews ), Andr. Kmbl. 1122; An. 561. of things, unhappy, bringing misery Æppel unsǽlga (cf.
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án-wille
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Swá ánwille þæt him leófre bið þæt hé lybbe ǽfre be his ágenum dihte, Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 7: Prov. K. 8. Ánwille pervicaci, Germ. 393, 63. þzt yfel þe yfelum mannum becymð for heora ánwillan yfelnysse, Hml. Th. ii. 538, 24.
bócere
a bookman ⬩ an author ⬩ a scholar
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Hé manige searwa ádreág æt þám unlǽdum bócerum, Bl. H. 85, 1. Mið boecerum (bókerum, R.) cum scribis, Mt. L. 27, 41
ceosel
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Twégen seolas his bletsunge bǽdon licgende æt his fóton on fealwum ceosle, Hml. Th. ii. 138, 8-14. Þæs weres líc tó þám strande becóm, ... and on þám ceosole gelæg, Hml. S. 37, 271. Ceoslum glareis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 39: An. Ox. 2, 287.
byrele
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Æt þám cnihte þe wæs þæs bisceopes byrele (byrle, v. l.) the bishop's cupbearer, Gr. D. 186, 22. Be ðám byrle þe ðone apostol eárplætte, Hml. Th. ii. 520, 13. Ǽlcan gesettan discðegne and gesettan biriele, C. D. B. iii. 75, 30.
cwéne
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Sume mæssepreóstas habbað twá [wíf] oððe má, and sume forlǽtað þá hig ǽr hæfdon, and be lifiendre cwenan eft óðre nimað, Wlfst. 269, 23.
dearnunga
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Hé begeat mid his sméhwrencan eall dyrnunga æt Steorran ꝥ him gewearð se þridda penig of þǽre tolne, C. D. iv. 56, 29. Add
dweorg
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. :-- Dweorg on weg tó dónne ... syle etan þám untruman men ǽr þǽre tíde hys tócymes, swá on dæge swá on nihte, swæþer hyt sý, his tógan(g) bið ðearle strang, Lch. i. 364, 13-17. (The disease meant is convulsions, Cockayne.)
ge-hwearf
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Add: — Ðis is biscopes gehwearf and ðára hígna ðára londa æt Beórhám . . . (cf. in the charter so endorsed: Placuit archiepiscopo ejusque familia . . . aliquam vicissitudinem terrarum inter se habere), C. D. B. i. 526, 19.
ge-leáfsum
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Cymð se lytega sǽtere and áteleð him eall ðæt hé ǽr tó góde gedyde, and geræcð him ðonne tó geleáfsuman ( tells him and gets him to believe ) ðæt hé sié se gesǽlgosta on eallum cræftum, Past. 463, 13. Add
ge-ligernes
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Wearð Alexander ofslagen from his ágenne méder, þeh heó hiere óþerne sunu eác ǽr ofslóge, for hiere geligernesse Alexandra scelere matris occiso, quamvis ea, jam commisso adulterio et altero filio interfecto, generi nuptias mariti morte pepigisset, 3,
ge-witscipe
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Cf. ge-wita; the condition of being witness of a transaction Sculun of Gallia ríce cuman þá þe æt bysceopes hálgunge on gewitscype standan ( qui in ordinatione episcopi testes adsistant ), Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 73, 9. witness, personal observation, presence
Linked entry: wit-scipe
hringe
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'Gange him tó mínre byrgene and áteó áne hringan úp of ðǽre þrýh; and gif seó hringe him folgað æt þám forman tige . . . Gif seó hringe nele úp . . .' Se smið . . . genam áne hringan . . . Héé Hringan legulam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 18