un-æþele
not noble ⬩ ignoble ⬩ mean ⬩ infamous
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of persons, not noble, as regards birth Geðence hé simle, sié suá æðele suá unæðele, Past. 14; Swt. 85, 15.
for-faran
To perish ⬩ To destroy ⬩ to blockade
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Gif hǽðen cild binnon .ix. nihton þurh gímelíste forfaren sí if a child die and be lost, because through carelessness it is not baptized within nine days after birth, and so dies a heathen, Ll. Th. ii. 292, 7.
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hleápan
to run ⬩ rush ⬩ to jump ⬩ spring ⬩ to leap ⬩ to mount ⬩ jump about
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Hleópon (so in the [facsimile of the] MS. not hleówon) hornboran, hreópan friccan, El. 54. Gif hé út hleápe . . . And gif mon þone hláford teó ꝥ hé be his rǽde út hleópe, Ll.
hund-seofontig
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Hundseofuntig seofo síða, 18, 7. where a governed or qualified noun is not expressed Heora sprǽc is tódǽled on twá and hundseofontig, Bt. 18, 2; F. 62, 33
sárig
feeling grief, sorry, sorrowful, sad ⬩ expressing grief, mournful, sad, bitter
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Ðá sceolde se hearpere weorþan swá sárig ðæt hé ne mihte on gemong óðrum monnum beón the harper (Orpheus) is said to have become so afflicted with grief, that he could not live among other men, Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 6.
bredan
to weave, BRAID, knit, join together, draw, pluck; ⬩ plectere, nectere, vibrare, gladium stringere ⬩ to change, vary, transform; ⬩ vertere, variare, transformare
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Hǽðen cild biþ gefullod, ac hit ne bret ná his hiw wiðútan, ðeáh ðe hit beo wiðinnan awend a heathen child is baptized, but it varies not its aspect without, although it be changed within, Homl. Th. ii. 268, 30
COSTIAN
To tempt, try, prove ⬩ probare, tentare.
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Ne costa ðú ðínne Drihten God tempt not the Lord thy God Homl. Blick. 29, 33; Ps. Spl. C.
traht
a text ⬩ passage ⬩ textus ⬩ tractus ⬩ a treating of a subject ⬩ an exposition ⬩ a commentary
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We oferrǽddon ðis godspel . . . ac wé ne hrepodon ðone traht ná swíðor ðonne tó ðæs dæges wurðmynte belamp we read the gospel, but we did not further touch the exposition (or text, under I?) than pertained to the honour of the day, Homl.
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þyle
An orator ⬩ spokesman
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In two passages it is noted that he sat at his lord's feet Húnferð maþelode ðe æt fótum sæt freán Scyldinga, 1002; B. 499: 2335; B. 1165.
twégen
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Two. used adjectivally Tuégen stridi passus, Txts. 85, 1510. Twégen (twǽgen, MS. E.) aldormen, Chr. 822; Erl. 62, 12. Twégen englas, Gen. 19, 1. Óþre twégen sealmas, R. Ben. 37, 11. Twǽgen míne mégas, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 310, 23. Twoegen gibróþæra, Txts
fullian
To FULL or make white as a fuller ⬩ to baptize ⬩ albāre ⬩ candĭdum făcĕre ⬩ baptīzāre ⬩ βαπτίζειν
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After this, we do not find fulled, y-fulled, fullynge; yet in A. Sax. Mk. Bos. 9, 3, we have fullere: Wyc. 1389, fullere [or walkere of cloth, note]: Tynd. 1526 and Eng. version 1611, fuller.
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unnan
to grant a person (dat.) something ⬩ to give ⬩ allow ⬩ to wish something (gen.) to a person (dat. ) ⬩ to wish something (gen.) for a person (dat.) ⬩ to like a person to have something ⬩ to like a condition of things ⬩ to be pleased
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Ne meahte hé, ðeáh hé úðe wel, on ðam frumgáre feorh gehealdan he could not keep life in the prince, though he would have been well pleased to do it, 5703; B. 2855
folc-gemót
A folk-meeting ⬩ pŏpŭli consessus
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Anglo-Saxon Laws, vol. i. 613, note a. The folc-gemót was forbidden to be held on Sundays On folcgemóte at the folk-moot, L. Alf. pol. 34; Th. i. 82, 12, 13: L. Ath. i. 2; Th. i. 200, 8: iv. 1; Th. i. 220, 23. On folcgemóte [-móte, L.], L.
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swician
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Hí ðurh cúþe stówe swicedon and fóron per nota loca dispersi vagarentur, Bd. 4. 4; S. 571, 4. Hí swycedan geond wésten erraverunt in solitudine, Ps. Th. 106, 3. Swicedan, 39. Swiciende pervagatus. Wrt.
ge-þungen
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S. 23 b, 236 note. Þǽr ( in heaven ) is geþungen þegnweorud, Cri. 751. Geþungene ( eminent for scholarship ) preóstas, Angl. viii. 305, 8. Æfter geðungenra láreówa trahtnungum, Hml. Th. ii. 2, 8: Hml. S. 3, 151.
hám-sócn
Attack on a man's house; also the fine paid for such a breach of the peace ⬩ the crime of beating or assaulting a person within his own house ⬩ an inroad or attack on one's home ⬩ attack on one's house
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S. 12; Th. i. 382, 13, see the note: 15; Th. i. 384, 6: Th. Chart. 333, 32 : 359, 4 : 369, 14.
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LEÁF
LEAVE ⬩ permission ⬩ license
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Gif him líf seald wǽre, Bd. 1, 23; S. 486, 8, note. Ða seofan cnihtas ðe be ðínre leáfa lyfedan búton ehtnisse the seven youths that by your leave lived without persecution, Homl. Skt. 4, 255.
ge-dafenian
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Lbmn. 30, 6 note, with a clause Mé gedafenaþ þæt ic nú tódæg þé gecyrre, Hml. Th. i. 580, 33 : Bl. H. 227, 13 : 55, 4: 149, 11. Ús gedafanað ꝥ . . . Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 362, 15. with infin.
higian
in strive after ⬩ to ⬩ towards ⬩ to strive to do
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Nota þæs wísdómes þe þú habbae . . . and híga georne æfter máran, Solil. H. 47, 17.
má
More
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Gyt má wæs ðe ðæt dón ne wolde there were yet more who would not do that, Bd. 1, 14; S. 482, 17. Swá ðǽr má beáh tó ðam sóðan geleáfan, Homl. Th. ii. 540, 27. Ðá geneálǽhton má hine meldigende, 248, 32.