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blind

(adj.)

darkdimblind

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Add: physical Ic wæs blind bám eágum, Hml. Th. i. 422, 7: Bt. 38, 5; F. 206, 26. Palpo ic grápige; hic palpo ðes blinda mann, hujus palponis ðyses blindan, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 216, 10. (Dele the rendering in Dict.) figurative, of persons Ðá dysegan men sint

Á

(adv.)
Grammar
Á, aa, aaa; adv.

Alwayseverfor evereversemperunquamusque

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Always, ever, for ever; hence the O. Eng. AYE, ever; semper, unquam, usque Ac á sceal ðæt wiðerwearde gemetgian but ever must the contrary moderate, Bt. 21; Fox 74, 19. Án God á on écnysse one God to all eternity [lit. one God ever, in eternity ], Homl

Linked entry: ÁWA

GRIM

(adj.)
Grammar
GRIM, adj.
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Sharp, bitter, severe, fell, fierce, dire, savage, cruel, GRIM, horrible; acer, immanis, sævus, crudelis, atrox, dirus He him æt his ende grim geweorþeþ and hine gelǽdeþ on éce forwyrd he [the devil] will become cruel to him at his end, and will lead

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á-blinnan

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Add Ne áblinnaþ non desistunt Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 51. Áblinnende desistens, áblon desistit 25, 44, 45. Áblunnan desierant 26, 6. of persons, absolute, to cease, leave off, stop Ic áblinne cessam, i. desistam Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 5. Tó hwan áblinnest ðú?

Linked entry: on-blinnan

trucian

(v.)
Grammar
trucian, p. ode.

to fail in doing somethingto fail a person be wanting in duty to a person to failcome to an end

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to fail in doing something Ne trucaþ heora nan ána ðurh unmihte ac ðurh gecynde ánre Godcundnysse hí wyrcaþ ealle ǽfre án weorc no one of them alone fails through want of power, but through the nature of one divinity they all work always the same work

þorp

(n.)
Grammar
þorp, þrop, es; m. Perhaps the idea at first connected with the words is that of an assemblage, cf. the use in Icelandic: Maðr heitir einnhverr ... þorp ef þrír ero, Skáldskaparmál; þyrpast to crowd, throng: þyrping
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a crowd: later the word may have been used of the assemblage of workers on an estate, and also of the estate on which they worked; all three ideas seem to be implied in one or other of the following glosses Tuun, þrop, ðrop conpetum, Txts. 53, 557: Wrt

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ge-endung

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Add: local, an extreme part Seó sunne undergǽd þǽre eorðan geendunge the sun goes below the horizon, Lch. iii. 260, 7. a termination of a word Seó forme declinatio hæfð tres terminationes, þæt synd ðreó geendunga, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 24, 4: 26, 12. a concluding

blinnan

Grammar
blinnan, [= be-linnan].

to cease

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Add: of persons, absolute Cleopa and ne blin, Past. 91, 19. Blinnað sinite, Lk. L. 22, 51. to cease from action, with gen. Sé þe nǽfre ne blinð ungestæððignesse cui carnis petulantia sine cessatione dominatur, Past. 70, 3. Hé þæs ne blann (blon, v.

elcian

(v.)
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Add: to procrastinate. absolute Elcaþ differt, i. moratur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 13. Ylde, elcode distulit, moram fecit, 141, 47. Ne hé lange ne elcode, Lch. iii. 434, 24. Elkede (ilkede, ylcodan þá déman) man fram dæge tó dæge, Chr. 999; P. 133, 5. Hí

ge-weorpan

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Add: to throw, cast Mann hæfð inngang swá micelre brǽdo swá man mæg mid liþeran geweorpan habet ingressum amplitudinis quasi iactus fundae, Bd. 4, 13; Sch. 421, 16. <b>Ia.</b> where the direction or end of throwing is marked :-- Hé beheóld

á-dwǽscan

to extinguish fire, lightto put an end to, put dawn, suppress a practice, doctrine, &;c.to put down, suppress, destroy a person

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Add: to extinguish fire, light (lit. or fig.) Ðæt wæter and seó eorþe eallunga ne ádwǽsceþ ðæt fýr, Bt. 33, 4; F. 130, 14. Ðǽm gelícost ðe mon drýpe ǽnne eles dropan on án micel fýr, and þence hit mid ðǽm ádwǽscan; ðonne is wén, swá micle swíðor swá

ge-dwellan

(v.)
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Add: Trans. To lead astray. in a physical sense (v. ge-dwelian ; II. 1), in a mental or moral sense, the object a person Ðæt hé gewundige ðá heortan ðára gehírendra . . ., ðæt is ðæt hé hié gedweleð ne erroris vulnere audientium corda feriantur, Past

for-weorþan

to become illto go badto come to a bad endto perish

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Add: to become ill Philippus forwearð on móde, Hml. S. 2, 104. of food, to go bad Gif salt forworðes si sal evanuerit, Mt. L. 5, 13. to come to a bad end His geféran ealle forwurdon tó deáðe, Ap. Th. 11, 6. to perish, of death Ealle þá ðe sweord nymað

gár-secg

(n.)
Grammar
gár-secg, -sæcg, es; m. [gár a spear, secg man] .

a spear-manthe oceanhŏmo jăcŭlo armātusoceănusa seamăre

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a spear-man, the ocean; hŏmo jăcŭlo armātus, oceănus. The myth of an armed man, - a spear-man is employed by the Anglo-Saxons as a term to denote the Ocean, and has some analogy to the personification of Neptune holding his trident. Spears were placed

Linked entry: secg

ildu

(n.)
Grammar
ildu, indecl. f.

an ageævumageætasagesenectus

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an age; ævum Nis ðæt tó geortrýwianne ðæt on úre yldo ðæt beón mihte ðæt forþgongendre yldo oft geworden getreówe spell secgaþ nec diffidendum est nostra etiam ætate fieri potuisse, quod ævo præcedente aliquoties factum fideles historiæ narrant, Bd.

Linked entries: ældu eldo ilda ildo

ferian

(v.)

to carrymoveconveyto leadconduct

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Dele bracket at end, and add: to carry, move, convey, the subject a person, and the object not moving itself Hé forðférde . . . hine man ferede tó Sc̃a Marian mynstre, Chr. 977; P. 122, 12: 1023; P. 157, 9. Hám feredan advectabant (manipulos ), Wrt.

ofer-gán

(v.)
Grammar
ofer-gán, p. -eode; pp. -gán.

to overspreadto overrun (a country, as a victorious army does), to conquerto pass a point or limitto pass a moral limit, to transgressto pass across, traverse, crossto pass, pass off or away, be over, come to an endTo be overto come upon, attack

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to overspread Seó lyft ofer*-*gǽþ ealne middaneard, Lchdm. iii. 272, 17. to overrun (a country, as a victorious army does), to conquer Se here fór tó Sandwíc, and swá ðanon tó Gipeswíc, and ðæt eall ofereode, Chr. 993; Erl. 132, 4. Wǽndon ðæt hé sceolde

Linked entries: ofer-eode ofer-gangan

be-týnan

(v.)
Grammar
be-týnan, -tiénan, bi-týnan; p. -týnde, pl. -týndon; impert. -týn, -tiéne; pp. -týned, -tiéned, -týnd; v. a. [be, týnan to hedge in].

to inclose or surround with a hedge, inclose, close, shut, shut upsepem circumdare, sepire, intercludere, claudere, occludere, concludereto end, finish, concludefinire

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to inclose or surround with a hedge, inclose, close, shut, shut up; sepem circumdare, sepire, intercludere, claudere, occludere, concludere Sum hírédes ealdor wæs, se plantode wíngerd, and betýnde hyne homo erat paterfamilias, qui plantavit vineam, et

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for-sleán

cut throughto slaykillto destroylay wastefinishto routoverthrowto condemn

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Add: to injure by striking, cut through or break with a stroke, wound with a blow Heó slóh tó his hneccan, and mid twám slegum forslóh him þone swuran percussit bis in cervicem ejus et abscidit caput ejus, Hml. A. 111, 305. Gif mon óðrum þá hond útan

HORN

(n.)
Grammar
HORN, es; m.

A HORN, a drinking-horn, a cupping-horn, a trumpet, the horn-shaped projection on the gable-end of a house [v. Dasent's translation of Njála, plate 3, p. cvii], a pinnacle a horn, drinking-horn, trumpet, husk cornu, tuba a horn, drinking-horn, trumpet; a corner n. cornu, tuba, promontorium

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A HORN, a drinking-horn, a cupping-horn, a trumpet, the horn-shaped projection on the gable-end of a house [v. Dasent's translation of Njála, plate 3, p. cvii], a pinnacle Oxan horn biþ x pæninga weorþ an ox's horn shall be worth ten pence, L. In. 58