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Anglo-Saxon

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Cant-waru

(n.)
Grammar
Cant-waru, e; f.
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The people of Kent Eall Brytene búton Cantware ánre, Chr. 617; P. 24, 28

car-ful

Grammar
car-ful, (care-).
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Add: of persons, filled with anxiety, anxious, troubled Ðú eart carful and bysig ymbe fela ðing thou art careful and troubled about many things (Lk. 10, 41), Hml. Th. ii. 440, 8. Ne beó ðú carful ymbe woruldlicum gestreónum, 344, 2. Férde se cásere

oarl-cat

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Dele

cáf-scipe

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Substitute: Alacrity, energy, promptness, boldness Mid Godes eges cáfscipe bútú þá þing beóð gefyllede in velocitate timoris Dei ambe res citius explicantur, R. Ben. 20, 6. Se man hýwað hine sylfne mihtine and unforhtne, þe náh on his heortan ǽnigne

cop-lic

Similar entry: ge-cóplic

cop-líce

(adv.)

Similar entry: ge-cóplíce

Cent-land

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Hé wið þá Brettas gefeaht, and gefliémed wearð on þǽm londe þe mon hǽt Centlond. Raþe þæs hé gefeaht wiþ þá Brettas on Centlonde, and hié wurdon gefliémede, Ors. 5, 12; S. 238, 19-21. Add

cine-wáþen

Similar entry: cyne-wáden

coc-ród

(n.)
Grammar
coc-ród, e; f.
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A cock-road, a clearing in a wood where woodcocks could be netted Oð ðá cocródæ; swá of ðǽre cocród, C. D. v. 346, 26

cól-pyt

Grammar
cól-pyt, l. col-pyt a place where charcoal is made [v. N. E. D. coal-pit]
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and add Forð bæ hæselholtæ on collpytt; of collpyttæ, C. D. iv. 27, 13. On þone ealdan collpytt þǽr þá þreó gemǽru tógædere gáþ, Cht. E. 206, 23

col-sweart

(adj.)
Grammar
col-sweart, adj.
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Coal-black Hwílum hé bið collsweart, Nap. 13

Linked entry: sweart

ed-cer

(n.)

Similar entry: ed-cir

ge-canc

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For 'Som. ... 510' substitute Gecance ludibrio, i. uituperatione, An. Ox. 1473. Mid gecance gannitura, 4504

ge-cíd

(n.)
Grammar
ge-cíd, es; m. n.? l. n.
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and add: strife, contention, quarrel Gecíd lis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 13: 50, 28. Geflit and gecíd divortium, 28, 26. Gyf him þince ꝥ hé geseó fela fugla ætsamne, ꝥ byð æfest and gecid (geflit and cíd, v.l. ), Lch. iii. 168, 17. ꝥ Gecygde (-ciid, v.l.) ond

car-ful

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Add Ðá dióflu drífað þá cearfullan sáwla tó helle, Verc. Först. 112, 4. Add Hé weorpeð ðá cearfullan cǽge (the key of hell) in on þá helle, 15

cir-redness

Grammar
cir-redness, v. for-cirredness. , and cyrredness
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in Dict

sǽ-cir

(n.)
Grammar
sǽ-cir, sǽ-cirr

the retreat of the sea

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the retreat of the sea (when the waves drew back and left a passage for the Israelites), Cd. Th. 196,13 ; Exod. 291

cod-æppel

(n.)
Grammar
cod-æppel, es; m.

A quince-pear ⬩ quince ⬩ malum cydoneum vel cotoneum

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A quince-pear, quince; malum cydoneum vel cotoneum Cot. 93

cól-pyt

(n.)
Grammar
cól-pyt, -pet; gen. -pyttes, -pettes; m.

A COAL-PIT ⬩ carbonis fossa

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A COAL-PIT; carbonis fossa Fram Hlypegete to ðam cólpytte: fram cólpette from Lipgate to the coal-pit: from the coal-pit Cod. Dipl. 1322; A. D. 1035; Kmbl. vi. 186, 9

cól-máse

(n.)
Grammar
cól-máse, an; f. [cól coal, máse a titmouse]

A coal-titmouse ⬩ coal-tit ⬩ parus ater

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A coal-titmouse, coal-tit; parus ater Cólmáse parra Wrt. Voc. 62, 39 parula, 281, 11 bardioriolus, Ælfc. Gl. 39; Som. 63, 52; Wrt. Voc. 30, 7

Linked entry: cummáse