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hreóf-lig

Grammar
hreóf-lig, (l. hreóflig).
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Add: used (often as substantive) of persons Seó ealde ǽ bebeád þæt gehwilc hreóflig man gecóme tó þám sácerde . . . Gif se sácerd hine hreófligne tealde . . . Swá sceal sé ðe mid heáfodleahtrum wiðinnan hreóflig bið cuman tó Godes sácerde, Hml.

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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Glossārium ad scriptōres mĕdiæ et infĭmæ Latinĭtātis Dŏmĭni Du Cange, Dufresne; Francofurti ad Mœnum, 3 vols. fol. 1681, Dromōnes

gléd-stede

(n.)
Grammar
gléd-stede, es; m.

A place for a fire ⬩ an altar

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A place for a fire, an altar On ðam glédstyde at the altar, Cd. 86; Th. 108, 22; Gen. 1810. On ðæm glǽdstede gild onsægde made an offering on the altar, 137; Th. 172, 10; Gen. 2842

Linked entry: glǽdsted

haga

(n.)
Grammar
haga, a berry.
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Add: a haw Hagan cinum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 11. [ Cinus an haythorne and an hawe, Wlck. Gl. 572, 45.] used as a type of a thing of no value Hagan gignalia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 42, 16

ealning

(adv.)
Grammar
ealning, adv.

Always ⬩ semper

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Always; semper Swá he ealning dyde æt Saltwíc as he always did at Saltwich, Th. Diplm. A.D. 886-899; 138, 15

oþ-fleón

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Wæs þæs folces fela on án fæsten oþflogen ad Olympum montem universi Gallograeci confugerant, Ors. 4, 11; S. 206, 13. Add

Decem-ber

(n.)
Grammar
Decem-ber, gen. -bris; m. [dĕcem ten: Sansk. vāra: Pers. bār time, space: the tenth month of the Romans, beginning with March, and as we begin with January, it is our twelfth month]

The month of December ⬩ Dĕcember, bris

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The month of December; Dĕcember, bris, m Mónaþ Decembris, ǽrra iúla [geóla] the month of December, the former yule, Menol. Fox 437; Men. 220; January being after yule or Christmas is called Se æftera geóla; the after yule, Cott. Tibĕrius; B. i; Hick.

ÆPPEL

(n.)
Grammar
ÆPPEL, æpl, appel, apl, eapl, es; m; nom. acc. pl. m. æpplas; nom. acc. pl. n. æppla.

an APPLE ⬩ fruit generally ⬩ malum ⬩ pomum ⬩ what is round as an apple ⬩ the apple of the eye ⬩ a ball ⬩ bolus ⬩ pill ⬩ quidvis globosum ⬩ pupilla ⬩ globus ⬩ bolus ⬩ pilula

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an APPLE, fruit generally, Ors. Eng. 1. 3; Bos. 63, note I; malum, pomum Æples gelícnes likeness of an apple, Exon. 59 a; Th. 213, 26; Ph. 230.

Linked entries: æppyl appel eapl epl

drían

(n.)
Grammar
drían, = dríum = drýum with sorcerers, Glostr. Frag. 10, 30: as fisceran and fugeleran = fiscerum and fugelerum, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 5; the dative plural of dri, drý, fiscere, and fugelere, q. v.

Linked entry: drí

heals

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(an ox) beáh hæfde on healse, 71, 11. as part of a thing. Similar entries Cf. fámig-, wunden-heals as epithets of a ship: Heo (bagpipes) hafað hyre on healse bróðor síne, Rä. 32, 21

hleahtor

a laugh

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An.

Linked entry: hleahtrian

of-lǽtan

(v.)
Grammar
of-lǽtan, . I.

to give up, relinquish ⬩ to give up the ghost ⬩ to let off, cause (blood) to flow ⬩ to let off, forgive, dismiss

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[Goth. af-létan to let off, forgive, dismiss: Ger. ab-lassen.]

á-tendan

(v.)
Grammar
á-tendan, to set on fire.
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Add Ád átendne pyram succensam, An. Ox. 2460. <b>I a.</b> to kindle a fire :-- Hé geseah feówer fýr átende, Hml. Th. ii. 338, 6. Add Átend succensus (flammis carnalibus). An. Ox. 4315

mene-scilling

(n.)
Grammar
mene-scilling, es; m.

A coin worn as an ornament

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A coin worn as an ornament Menescillingas lunules, Ep. Gl. 13 b, 37: Wrt. Voc. ii. 113, 15. Mynescillingas, 49, 72

sundor-wine

(n.)
Grammar
sundor-wine, es; m.
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A special friend, an intimate friend:?-Ne áswíc sundorwine, ac á symle geheald rihtum gerisnum, Exon. Th. 301, 34; Fä. 29

feormend

(n.)
Grammar
feormend, es; m.

An entertainer

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An entertainer Sum sceal on féðe on feorwegas nýde gongan and his nest beran . . . áh hé feormendra lyt lifgendra, Vy. 30

hwarne

(adv.)
Grammar
hwarne, , hwergene (?); adv. [Not]
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at all Wæs ne huarne long from him sunes berga erat non longe ab illis grex porcorum, Mt. L. 8, 30

ælmes-bæþ

(n.)
Grammar
ælmes-bæþ, es; n.

Washing of the poor done as an act of charity

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Washing of the poor done as an act of charity Sceóte man ælmessan . . . hwílum ælmesbæð, hwílum þearfena fótþweál, Wlfst. 171, 2

glíwere

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Substitute: a jester, buffoon Glíwere scurra, Germ. 396, 320. one who unworthily aims at pleasing, an obsequious follower, a parasite Spilra, glíwera parasitorum (cf. parasitus leás ólecere, Wrt. Voc. i. 74, 36), An. Ox. 679: 6, 13.

hræding

(n.)
Grammar
hræding, e; f.

Hurry ⬩ haste

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Hí burigdon swá swá heó líhtlucost mihten on swylce [h]rædinge they buried him as best they could in such a hurry, Th. An. 123, 22

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