gearo-wyrdig
Ready in words ⬩ speaking with ease or fluency ⬩ eloquent ⬩ verbis promptus ⬩ fācundus
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Ready in words, speaking with ease or fluency, eloquent; verbis promptus, fācundus Se wítga song, gearo-wyrdig guma ðæt gyd awræc the prophet sang, the eloquent man recited the lay, Exon. 84 a; Th. 316, 19; Mód. 51
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pur-lamb
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Old Farming Words, No. 6) Ðæt lamb sceal beón ánwintre purlamb clǽne and unwemme erit agnus absque macula, masculus, anniculus, Ex. 12, 5
tó-sceádenness
Separation ⬩ distinction
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Hér on ðysum cwide wæs ðæra apostola tóscádennys here we have in these words a distinction made among the apostles, Homl. Ass. 158, 162
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wís-fæst
Perfect
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Perfect Gif ðú wilt wísfæst (perfectus)wosa, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. Rush. 19, 21. Wísfæst éghwelc bið perfectus omnis erit, Lk. Skt. Lind. 6, 40. Folc wísfæst plebem perfectum, I. 17. Wísfæsto (perfecti) wossað gié. Rtl. 13, 19
eáþ-cnǽwe
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.), for ðan ðe ǽlc ðára worda þe geendað on eo, and se óðer hád on es, ys þǽre óðre geðeódnysse, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 147, 8
haga
A haw, berry of the hawthorn; also used to signify any thing of no value ⬩ frute cinum, cornum, ramnum
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Chaucer's 'not worth an hawe'] Hagan gignalia, Ælfc. Gl. 47; Som. 65, 24; Wrt. Voc. 33, 24. Hagan quisquilia, 285, 31
ge-þwǽrlǽcan
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Godes word is úre wiðerwinna ... wé sceolon geðwǽrlǽcan wið ꝥ word, Hml.
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ge-yppan
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Ðás word Zosimus mid teárum geypte, Hml. S. 23 b, 195. Hé þás word geypte, Angl. viii. 325, 47. Gesǽd, geypped wæs prolatum, i. narratum est An.
Cynewulf
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This I found to be the case; for, on taking the Runes out of the context, using them as single letters and uniting them in one word, they supplied me with the name CYNEWULF, undoubtedly no other than the author of the poems.
lár-líc
Instructive
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Hit is swíðe gedafenlíc ðæt gé sume lárlíce worst æt eówerum láreówum gehýron, ii. 282, 31
stýfician
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Móna se ðridda weorca onginnan ná gedafanaþ bútan ðæt biþ geedcenned stífician the third day of the moon is not good to attempt works, except to root up what has grown up again
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were-wulf
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A wer-wolf, a fiend Ðæt se wódfreca werewolf tó swýðe ne slíte, ne tó fela ábíte of godcundre heorde, L. C. E. 26; Th. i. 374, 30 : L. I. P. 6; Th. ii. 310, 30 : Wulfst. 191, 16
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be-lecgan
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Belege mid wulle cover with wool, Lch. ii. 262, 3. Mid unþeáwum beléd subject to vices, R. Ben. 121, 14. Líge belegde enveloped in flame, Dan. 296. Add
weorold-gerisene
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Worldly propriety Æfter Godes rihte and æfter woroldgerysnum as religion and the world require, L. O. 1; Th. i. 178, 5 : L. Edm. B. 1; Th. i. 254, 4. Woruldgerysenum, L. I. P. 24; Th. ii. 336, 38
ge-edhiwod
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Substitute: ge-edhíwian; p. ode To give another shape to Nelle gé beón geedhíwode þissere worulde ac beóð geedhí-wode on níwnysse andgytes eówres nolite conformari huic saeculo, sed reformamini in nouitate sensus uestri, Scint. 58, 3, 4
reóst
rest; the wood on which the coulter of a plough is fixed
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; rest; the wood on which the coulter of a plough is fixed,; Halliw. Dict.) Sules reóst dentale, s. est aratri pars prima in qua vomer inducitur quasi dens,; :Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 72 ;dentalia,; 106, 20 : 25, 28
cniht-líc
Boyish ⬩ childish ⬩ puerilis
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Swá oft swá cnihtlícu yldo begǽþ as childish age is often wont 2; Gdwin. 12, 19
ge-swǽs
Dear ⬩ familiar ⬩ kind ⬩ cārus ⬩ fămĭliāris ⬩ blandus
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Iohannes mid geswǽsum wordum ðæt folc tihte John exhorted the people with kind words, Homl. Th. i. 70, 34
DÓHTOR
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Ðá wæs ellen-wód fæder wið déhter then was the father furious with his daughter, Exon. 67 b; Th. 251, 7; Jul. 141: Gen. 29, 18: Mk. Bos. 7, 26, 29: Homl. Th. ii. 26, 33. Ðæm forgeaf Hréðel ángan dóhtor to whom Hrethel gave his only daughter, Beo.
FARAN
A word expressing every kind of going from one place to another, hence ⬩ to go, proceed, travel, march, sail ⬩ īre, vādĕre, incēdĕre, transīre, migrāre, nāvīgāre ⬩ FARE, happen, to be in any state ⬩ versāri in ălĭqua re, se hăbēre ălĭquo mŏdo
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faren, A word expressing every kind of going from one place to another, hence to go, proceed, travel, march, sail; īre, vādĕre, incēdĕre, transīre, migrāre, nāvīgāre Faran ofer feldas to go over fields, Exon. 108 b; Th. 415, 8; Rä, 33, 8.