Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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cælc

(n.)
Grammar
cælc, es; m.
Entry preview:

Lind. Rush. Stv. 10, 42

embeht

(n.)
Grammar
embeht, es; n.

An office, serving ⬩ ministērium

Entry preview:

Lind. 10, 40

Linked entry: ambeht

embeht-mon

(n.)
Grammar
embeht-mon, -monn, es; m.

servant-man, servant, minister ⬩ servus, minister

Entry preview:

Lind. War. 9, 35

for-holen

(v.; part.)
Grammar
for-holen, pp. of for-helan.

concealed ⬩ hidden

Entry preview:

Lind. 8, 17;

gaast

(n.)
Grammar
gaast, es; m.

A ghost ⬩ spirit ⬩ spīrĭtus

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Lind. Skt. 4, 24

in-bewindan

(v.)
Grammar
in-bewindan, p. -wand

To wrap up ⬩ enwrap

Entry preview:

Lind. 23, 53. Innbewunden involutum, 2, 12

in-búan

(v.)

to inhabit

Entry preview:

Lind. 23, 21

of-blindian

(v.)

to make blind

Entry preview:

Lind. Rush. 12, 40

Linked entry: blindian

pening-sliht

(n.)
Grammar
pening-sliht, es ; m.
Entry preview:

Lind. 17, 25

Linked entry: sliht

ge-wana

(n.)
Grammar
ge-wana, -wona, an; m.

A lack ⬩ want

Entry preview:

Lind. 19, 20

Linked entry: wana

seorðan

(v.)
Grammar
seorðan, seordan (?) ; p. searð
Entry preview:

Lind. 5, 27

Linked entry: serð

bie

be

Entry preview:

Lind. War. 10, 44, Similar entries for bió; subj. of bión to be

ge-lifian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-lifian, p. ode; pp. od

To live

Entry preview:

To live Gif he hit gelifode if he had lived, Chr. 1093; Erl. 229, 8

Linked entry: ge-leofian

ge-sceortian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-sceortian, p. ade

To fall short, fail

Entry preview:

Lind. 2, 3

un-neáh

(adj.)
Grammar
un-neáh, adj.

Distant ⬩ far

Entry preview:

Lind. 15, 13: 19, 12

Linked entries: neáh un-néh

pundern

Entry preview:

Add: a plumb-line Of punderne a perpendiculo, An. Ox. 3005: 2, 138 (printed wunderne)

þæslíce

(adv.)
Entry preview:

In l, 3 for 47 l. 147 and Add Þæs[líce] congruenter, An. Ox. 1715

út-irning

(n.)
Grammar
út-irning, e; f.

A flux

Entry preview:

Lind. 5, 25

á-slápan

Entry preview:

Lǽcedómas wiþ áslápenum lice. (paralysed) Lch. ii. 12, 17. Þá áslápenan sina, 282, 8. Add

Linked entry: on-slápan

ge-logian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-logian, l. ge-lógian,
Entry preview:

E. 230, 9. to arrange a course of action, order one's conversation, regulate Hé his líf gelógað mid wísdóme, Wlfst. 52, 24. Þ ðú gelógie þín líf on eádmódnysse, Hml. A. 10, 263. Þ úre líf beó swá gelógod ꝥ úre ende geendige on God, Hml.

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