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léfung

(n.)
Grammar
léfung, e; f.

Weakeninglaminglamenessparalysis

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Weakening, laming, lameness, paralysis Ðí læs ðe hí ðás léfunge on heora limum gebrohton lest they should bring this paralysis [want of power to speak, walk and see] upon their limbs, Homl. Th. ii. 486, 18

lyft-helm

(n.)
Grammar
lyft-helm, es; m.

The airatmospherecloud

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Wǽron land heora lyfthelme beþeaht their lands were covered with cloud, Cd. 145; Th. 181, 13; Exod. 60

swipian

(v.)
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swipian, sweopian; p. ode
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To scourge, strike, beat, lash Hafaþ hé gyrde lange and ðone feónd sweopaþ, Salm. Kmbl. 185, MS. A.; Sal. 92. Rodor swipode meredeáða mǽst the destroying sea lashed the skies, Cd. Th. 207, 8; Exod. 463

Linked entry: swippan

þri-scíte

(adj.)
Grammar
þri-scíte, adj.

Triangularthree-cornered

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Triangular, three-cornered Ispania land is þryscýte Hispania trigona est, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 24, 1. Sicilia is ðryscýte Sicilia tria habet promontoria, Swt. 28, 2. On ðone þryscýtan crundel, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 374, 26

flów-nys

a flowfluxa stream

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Sió unrótnes ðe cymð of yfles blódes flównesse, Past. 455, 14, 23. a stream Ðára lára flównisa doctrinarum fluenta, Mt. p. 8, 17

fóre-smeagan

Grammar
fóre-smeagan, -smeágean. l. fore-smeág(e)an,
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Foresmeánde praecogitandum, Lk. p. 10, 14. for last line substitute and add:

ge-scrépe

(n.)
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ge-scrépe, es; n.
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An advantage Lǽn, gescrǽpe commodum, lucrum, utile, Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, I. Fela óþerra gescrépa (-screópa, v.l.) hé ongeat heofonlíce him forgyfen wesan alia commoda caelilas sibi fuisse donata intellexit, Bd. 4, 22 ; Sch. 461, 17

stǽner

(n.)
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[Cf. staners the small stones and gravel on the margin of a river or lake; stanners the e]

FÓT

(n.)
Grammar
FÓT, nom. acc: gen. fótes; dat. fét, fóte; pl. nom. acc. fét, fótas; gen. fóta; dat. inst. fótum; m.

a FOOTpésthe footpēs

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Lamb. 98, 5; Exon. 107 b; Th. 410, 12; Rä. 28,15. Ðe-læs hig mid hyra fótum hig fortredon ne forte conculcent eas pĕdĭbus suis, Mt. Bos. 7, 6. Hæfde gefeormod fét and folma he had devoured feet and hands, Beo.

helpan

to succourto be serviceableto profitavail

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Bibeád ic eów ꝥ gé of þám ǽhtum þe ic eów geaf earmra hulpen, Cri. 1603. used absolutely: Gif limlǽweo lama þe forworht wǽre weorðe forlǽten, and hé æfter þám þreó niht áibbe, siþþan man mót hylpan, sé þe wyllen beorgan sáre and sáule, Ll.

búan

(v.)
Grammar
búan, bún, búgan (-ian, -ean), búian, búwian, bógian, q.v. in Dict.; býa in N. Gospels; p. búde, búgede, bógode, býede; pp. bún, búd, býed.
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Land tó búgianne land to inhabit, Bt. 17; F. 60, 4: 18, 1; F. 62, 16

egeleáslíce

(adv.)
Grammar
egeleáslíce, adv.
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Without fear, unconcernedly Ðý lǽs hié siððangeearnigen swá micle hefigre wíte suá hié nú egeleáslícor and unnytlícor brúceð Godes giefe eo postmodum supplicia graviora mereantur, quo nunc largioribus bonis Dei male uti non metuunt, Past. 247, 10

foran-niht

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Hit gelamp on þǽre nihte ꝥ se cyning læg wæccende lange on forannihte, Hml. A. 98, 209. De completorio (Forannihtsang) On foranniht wé sculon God herian ǽr wé tó bedde gán, Btwk. 218, 34: 194, 14. Add

Linked entry: foranniht-sang

ge-landian

(v.; adj.)
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Landed, pos- sessed of land Se geréfa . . . gesylle mé .cxx. sciłł., and be healfum þám ǽlc mínra þegna þe gelandod sý, Ll. Th. i. 240, 20

ge-þweán

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Ic geðuóg laui, 14. Heáfod mín ne geðuóge ðú, Lk. L. 7, 46. Geduóh lauit, Jn. p. 7, 1. Geþoa lauare, Jn. L. 13, 5. Add

hors-bǽr

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Sum þegn læg on paralisyn . . . þá cwæð hé ꝥ hé wolde tó Wynceastre sýðian húru on his horsbǽre, Hml. S. 21, 181. Add

hwealf

(n.)
Grammar
hwealf, e; f.
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Dele last passage, and add H[w]alf clima (climas partes cęli ad superna conuexas uocarnus, Ld. Gl. H. s. v. clima), Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 20. Hwealfe climatis, hwealfum climatibus, 23, 52, 53. See next word

sǽne

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Þý lǽs hié for ðon ormóde wǽron and þý sǽnran mínes willan and weorðmyndo, Nar. 32, 23. Add

of-gifan

(v.)

to give up, leave, abandondestituere

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Hé Dena land ofgeaf he left the Danes' land, Beo. Th. 3813; B. 1904. Hé ðás woruld ofgeaf he died, Cd. Th. 72, 30; Gen. 1194. Hé ðone beám ofgeaf he (Christ) left the cross (when he was taken to be buried), Exon. Th. 45, 35; Cri. 729.

FEÁWA

(n.; num.; adj.)
Grammar
FEÁWA, feá; pl. nom. acc. feáwe, feáwa, feá; gen. feáwena, feáwera, feára; dat. feáwum, feáum, feára; adj.

FEWpauci

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Lamb. 106, 39. Wesan dagas his feáwe [feáwa] fiant dies ejus pauci, Spl. 108, 7; 108, 8.

Linked entry: feá