Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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básnung

(n.)
Grammar
básnung, e; f.

Expectation ⬩ exspectatio

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Lind. War. 21, 26

burug

(n.)
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Lind. 5, 14

camal

(n.)
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Lind. War. 18, 25

cylenisc

(adj.)
Grammar
cylenisc, adj.

Like a kiln ⬩ fornāceus

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Like a kiln; fornāceus Som. Ben. Lye

doema

(n.)
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Lind. 5, 25

doeman

(v.)
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Lind. 7, 1

eft-lésing

(n.)
Grammar
eft-lésing, e; f.

Redemption ⬩ redemptio

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Lind. 20, 28

gærst

(adj.)

green like grass ⬩ herbeus

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green like grass; herbeus, Som. Ben. Lye

bi-fǽrende

(v.; part.)
Grammar
bi-fǽrende, part.

Passing by

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Lind. War. 18, 36

ge-frígian

(v.)

to embrace

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Lind. 10, 16

ge-græppian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-græppian, p. ade; pp. ad

To seize

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Lind. 14, 31

Linked entry: græppian

ge-sagu

(n.)

a narration

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Lind. 1, 1

Linked entry: sagu

scripen

Grammar
scripen, scripende gloss
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Lind. Rush. 19, 21

un-rótsian

(v.)
Grammar
un-rótsian, p. ode.

to be sad ⬩ to be sorrowful ⬩ to make sad or sorrowful

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Lind. 14, 19. Unrótsande wæs contristatus est, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 14, 9. to make sad or sorrowful Alle gidroefde ł unrótsade (unródsad ł gestyred, Lind.) wérun omnes conturbati sunt, Mk. Skt. Rush. 6, 50

ge-teón

(v.)
Grammar
ge-teón, p. ge-teóde.
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Gif óþer nýten wǽre geteód tó þon écan lífe, Bl. H. 29, 5. Þá áne men habbaþ Críst on heora heortan þe geteóde beóþ tó þon écean lífe, 75, 35. þæt wé ne weorðan geteódde (-teohhode, v. l. ) on þá hellewítu, Verc.

sceácere

(n.)
Grammar
sceácere, es; m.

A robber

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Lind. 10, 1. Þeáfas and sceácaras fures et latrones, Mt. Kmbl. p. 8, I. Mið sceácerum (sceácrum, Rush.) i mið sétnern cum seditiosis, Mk. Skt. Lind. 15, 7

Linked entry: tó-sceácerian

feorh-berende

(v.; part.)
Grammar
feorh-berende, part.

Life-bearing ⬩ living ⬩ vītam fĕrens ⬩ vīvens

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Life-bearing, living; vītam fĕrens, vīvens Heó wile gesécan ǽghwylcne feorhberendra it will seek each of those bearing life, Exon. 110 a; Th. 420, 19; Rä. 40, 6: Cd. 92; Th. 117, 17; Gen. 1955

ymb-ceorfan

(v.)
Grammar
ymb-ceorfan, p. -cearf, pl. -curfon; pp. -corfen
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To circumcise Gé ymbceorfas (-cearfas, Lind.) ðone monno circumciditis hominem, Jn. Skt. Rush. 7, 22. Tó ymbceorfanne (-cearfanne, Lind.) ðone cnæht circumcidere puerum, Lk. Skt. Rush. 1, 59. Ðætte ymbcorfen wére ðe cnæht, 2, 21

Samaringas

(n.)
Grammar
Samaringas, Samaritane, Samaritanisce; pl.

The Samaritans

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The Samaritans Innan Samaritana ceastre (in burgum ðæra Samaritanesca, Lind. ; in cæstra Samaringa, Rush. ) in civitates Samaritanorum, Mt. Kmbl. 10, 5. Tó Samaritaniscum, Jn. Skt. Rush. Lind. 4, 9. Similar entries v. next word (Samaritanisc)

ár-morgen

(n.)

early dawn

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Lind. War. 18, 28 : 20, 1

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