Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

eár-wela

(n.)
Entry preview:

Take here passage given under ár-wela

Linked entry: ár-wela

ge-sund

Entry preview:

</b> in valedictory expressions :-- Heó rǽhte hire handa him tó and hét hine gesund faran ( she bade him farewell), Ap. Th. 27, 2. Farað nú gesunde and gesǽlige becumað. Hml. S. 6, 89. háteð hý gesunde faran, Cri. 1342

swefan

(v.)
Grammar
swefan, p. swæf, pl. swǽfon; pp. swefen
Entry preview:

swifeþ slǽpe gebiesgad. Exon. Th. 358, 1 ; Pa. 39. sófte swæf. Cd. Th. 12, 2 ; Gen. 179: 94, 19 ; Gen. 1564. Sceótend swǽfon, ða ðæt hornreced healdan scoldon, Beo. Th. 1411; B. 703: 2564; B. 1280.

Linked entry: sweofot

wundorlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
wundorlíce, adv.

Wonderfully

Entry preview:

And eác ðæt wunderlícor wæs, ðá ðá heora án bodade mid ánre sprǽce, ǽlcum wæs geðúht swilce sprǽce mid his gereorde, Homl. Th. i. 318, 26. Se fugel wrixleþ wóðcræfte wundorlícor ðonne ǽfre byre monnes hýrde, Exon. Th. 206, 16; Ph. 127

hraþe

(adv.)
Entry preview:

Þá ongeat hraðe ꝥ . . ., Gen. 1474: Dan. 242: Jud. 37. Ne þæt yldan þóhte, ac geféng hraðe rinc, B. 740: El. 669.

Dorce-ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Dorce-ceaster, Dorces ceaster, Dorca-ceaster, Dorceaster; gen. -ceastre ; f. [Bd. Dorcinca, Dorcic: Hunt. Dorecestre: Brom. Dorkecestre: Matt. West. Dorcestre]

DORCHESTER, Oxfordshire, the episcopal seat of the first bishop of the West Saxons, which was subsequently removed to Lincoln Durocastrum, in agri Oxoniensis parte Berceriensi finitĭma

Entry preview:

Hér Wulstán arcebiscop onféng eft biscopríces, on Dorceceastre in this year [A. D. 954] archbishop Wulfstan again received a bishopric, at Dorchester, Chr. 954; Th. 215, 26, col. 1

þanne

Grammar
þanne, <b>A. IV.</b>
Entry preview:

</b> add :-- Ðónne drincð se láreów ðæt wæter of his ágnum mere, ðonne gehwirfð ... Ðonne drincð of ðǽm wielme his ágnes pyttes, ðonne bið self geðwǽned mid his ágnum wordum, Past. 373, 7-11.

ge-niman

Grammar
ge-niman, <b>;
Entry preview:

Add genam þurh heora láre on his orþance þá egeslican dǽda, Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 20

á-riht

Entry preview:

Gif heora hwilc þone rǽdels áriht rǽdde, Ap. Th. 3, 17: 5, 16. Áriht understanden, Wlfst. 155, 3: 33, 5. Ꝥ hit áriht náme, Ll. Th. i. 286, 18. Add

láreów

(n.)
Grammar
láreów, es; m.

A teachermasterpreacher

Entry preview:

is ordfruma and láreów ealre clǽnnesse he is the origin and teacher of all purity, Blickl. Homl. 13, 21. Heó æfter ðon wæs magister and láreów ðæs mynstres deinde magistra exstitit, Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 5.

ge-scý

(n.)
Grammar
ge-scý, es; n.

A pair of shoescalceamentum, tegmentum pedis, caliga

Entry preview:

' if he [the man] then say 'I will not have her to wife,' let the woman go to him and take his shoes off his feet before the elders and spit in his face, and let every man amongst the people of the Israelites call him 'the unshod,' Deut. 25, 8-10.

Linked entries: -scý ge-sceó ge-scóe

séman

(v.)
Grammar
séman, p. de ; pp. ed.
Entry preview:

with acc. of person, to bring to an agreement those who have a dispute Ðá hét hié séman. Ðá wæs ic ðara monna sum ðe ðǽrtó genemned wǽran . . .

un-wil

(n.)
Grammar
un-wil, un-will, es; n.

Absence of good willdislikedespiterepugnancereluctanceagainst one&#39;s willnot willinglywithout one&#39;s consentwithout intentioninvoluntarily

Entry preview:

Heó wæs hire unwilles fram him ab eo invita aberat, 15; Th. ii. 186, 29. Heora unwilles, L. Edg. S. 2; Th, i. 274, 5

ymb-settan

(v.)
Grammar
ymb-settan, p. te.
Entry preview:

to set round, put round, surround ymbseteþ útan líc and feþre on healfe gehware hálgum stencum, Exon. Th. 212, 3 ; Ph. 204. Beád út scypfyrde and landfyrde, and ðæt land eall útan embsette, Chr. 1072; Erl. 210, 31.

ge-tyngnes

Entry preview:

</b> skilful words, wise sayings :-- Rǽde þæs eádigan weres getingnyssa, Bédan, Angl. 308, 12. set speech. Cf. ge-tynge: 3 Getincnes oratio, An. Ox. 319

neáh-tíd

(n.)
Grammar
neáh-tíd, e; f.

A time close at hand

Entry preview:

A time close at hand Ðæt heó tó ðon ðider com ðæt heó hire sǽde ða neáhtíde hire geleórnesse quod ipsa ei tempus suae transmigrationis in proximum nunciare venisset, Bd. 4. 9; S. 577, 33

west-rodor

(n.)
Grammar
west-rodor, es; m.
Entry preview:

The western heavens Fram upgange sunnan óð ðæt heó wende on westrodur a solis ortu usque ad occasum Ps. Th. 112, 3. Heó gewíteþ on westrodur, 106, 3. Westrodor, Exon. Th. 350, 24; Sch. 68

ge-feallan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-feallan, p. -feól, -feóll, pl. -feóllon; pp. feallen

To fallcaderedecidere

Entry preview:

He eorþan gefeóll he fell to earth, Beo. Th. 5661; B. 2834 : 4207; B. 2100. Me fela ðínra edwíta on gefeóllon opprobria exprobantium tibi ceciderunt super me, Ps. Th. 68, 9. Ðá gefeól hire mód on his lufe then she fell in love with him, Th.

wíce

(n.)
Grammar
wíce, an; f.
Entry preview:

Bydele gebyraþ ðæt for his wýcan sý weorces frigra ðonne óðer man, L. R. S. 18; Th. i. 440, 6. Ðá hét se cásere lǽtan león and beran tó ðám cynegum ... and betǽhte ða wícan ðam wælhreówan Ualeriane, Homl. Skt. ii. 24, 31.

delfan

Entry preview:

Þá dulfon hí in þǽre ylcan stówe, Shrn. 113, 13. to dig the ground Genam áne spada and dealf þá eorþan, H. R. 13, 13. hét delfan þá eorðan, Hml. S. 27, 37.