sigele
Entry preview:
A necklace Gyldene sigelan, Bd. 4, 23; Sch. 473, 13
slæcmód-ness
Entry preview:
Spiritlessness, melancholy lack of energy; accidia, acedia Eahta synt heafódleahtras . . . þridde is sleacmódnes and unrótnes, Verc. Först. 173. Cf. á-solcenness
smeálic-ness
Entry preview:
Subtlety Beswicene fram deóflum þurh geþanca smeálicnysse (subtilitate), Chrd, 98, 34
strǽt-weard
Entry preview:
Guarding of roads De stretwarde. De qualibet hida in hundredo iiii. homines ad stretwarde invenientur . . . Et guardereve, id est prepositus custodum, habebit .xxx. hidas quietas pro labore suo, Ll. Th. i. 479, 25-29
Linked entry: weard
sund-ampre
Entry preview:
Some kind of dock; rumex maritimus Sundompran (cf. ompran þá þe swimman wile, 322, 16, and see sund) ymbdelf, Lch. ii. 116, 13
súþ-ecg
Entry preview:
The south edge of land Of cumbes súðecge, C. D. iii. 416, 21, On crundles súðecge, 465, 15: 20
Linked entry: ecg
súþ-fór
Entry preview:
A journey south, a pilgrimage to Rome. [Cf. Icel. suðr-ferð, -för, -ganga a pilgrimage to Rome. Such pilgrimages are often mentioned, e. g. Flosi fór suór um sjá ok hóf þá upp göngu sína ok gekk suðr ok ljetti ekki fyrr enn hann kom til Rómaborgar, Njala
swangettung
Entry preview:
Movement, agitation, fluctuation Seó sǽ getácnað þás andwerdan woruld þe mid mislicum gelimpum ðǽre sǽ swangetunge geefenlǽcð, Nap. 60
sweart-byrd
Entry preview:
A dismal, hapless birth, v. sweart; Þis mé tó bóte þǽre swǽran swærtbyrde, Lch. iii. 66, 22
swelgend
Entry preview:
Add: a swallet, swallow (v. D.D.) Tó þǽre sweliende, of þǽre sweliende, Cht. E. 266, 27. On Wígmundes swelgende; of ðan swelgende, C.D. v. 376, 10
swíþ-hreówness
Entry preview:
Violent grief, remorse Þǽr is eágena wóp and tóða gristbítung; . . . and þǽr is egesa and fyrhto; and þǽr is swíðhreównes; and þǽr is unrihtwísnes, Verc. Först. 173
Linked entry: hreów-ness
tæflung
Entry preview:
Gambling Ús syndon synderlíce on þisum dagum forbodene ... ídele sprǽca and tæflunga and beórscypas, Nap. 61
taru
Entry preview:
A rent, gap Ðá giniendan oððe tara hiulcas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 42, 49. Cf. teran
tendling
Entry preview:
Burning. See preceding word
tó-cwæscedness
Entry preview:
Destruction Tócwæscednes (tócwescedness, Ps. L.) quassatio, Ps. Rdr. 105, 30. See note p. 304
Linked entry: -cwæscedness
tó-gelaþung
Entry preview:
An assembly On þám synt engla weredu and rihtwísra tógelaðung þǽr symle wuniendra, Verc. Först. 173
Linked entry: ge-laþung
tó-sócn
Entry preview:
Visiting Þá forman costunga preósthádes mannon cumað of wífa gelómlicre tósócne ( feminarum frequentes accessus ), Chrd. 67, 36
tó-þening
Entry preview:
Distension Of tóþeningum distensionibus, An. Ox. 2, 476
Linked entry: -þening
tredde
Entry preview:
A press for wine or oil Hét hé þone cnapan stígan nyðer of þǽre treddan (wíntreddan, v.l. calcatorio ), Gr. D. 59, 4. Hí wrungon elebergan on þǽre treddan ( in prelo ), 250, 13. v. ele-, wín-tredde
Linked entry: tredd
tumbing
Entry preview:
Dancing Mæssepreóstas ... ne beón ... þǽr líchamana beóð fracodlice gebǽru mid saltingum and tumbincgum ( saltationibus ), Chrd, 79, 1