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on-legen

(n.)
Grammar
on-legen, e; f.

An on-laying, (medicinal) application

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Gesodene wuduæpla and hlafes cruman and swilce onlegena, 190, 15

cwalu

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Him næs on þám hláfe forholen seó cwalu (wól, v. l. pestis ), Gr. D. 118, 9. Hwæt bið unáberendlicre tó gesiónne ðonne ðæs bearnes cwalu ( mors ) beforan ðæs fæder eágum?, Past. 34. 3, 11.

líf-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
líf-líc, adj.

livingvital

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Ic eom se líflíca hláf ðe of heofenum ástáh I am the living bread, that came down from heaven, Homl. Th. ii. 202, 5.

ge-wiht

(n.)
Grammar
ge-wiht, -wyht, -wihte, es; n.

Weightpondus

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Gé etaþ hláf be gewihte ye shall eat bread by weight, Lev. 26, 26. Mid twám hundred mancosan goldes be gewihte and mid v. pundan be gewihte seolfres for two hundred mancuses of gold by weight and for five pounds by weight of silver, Th.

Linked entries: ge-wyht wiht

león

(v.)
Grammar
león, p. láh.

To lend

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Líh mé þreó hláfas commoda mihi tres panes, Lk. Skt. Lind. 11, 5

wist

(n.)
Grammar
wist, e; f. (and m.?
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v. big-, dæg-, hús-, neáh-wist.
)

subsistencesustenancefoodprovisionsdainty fooda feasteatingfeasting

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Hé áfédde of fixum twám and of fíf hláfum fira cynnes fíf þúsendo; wiste þégon menu, 1186; An. 593. Waldend ðé wist gife, heofonlícne hláf, 776; An. 388. Hunig, wynsume wist, Frag. Kmbl. 40; Leás. 22. Fóddurwelan, wist, Exon.

bletsian

(v.)
Grammar
bletsian, (from blédsian, bloedsian).

to hallowconsecrateadoreto benefitprosper

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Add: to hallow, consecrate Genom se Hǽlend hláf and bletsade, Mt. R. 26, 26. Bloedsade, Mk. L. 14, 22. to make the sign of the crossas a protection against evil :-- Gif hwá hit bletsað, þonne áblynð seó dydrung, Hml. S. 21, 469.

hwónlíce

(adv.)
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Tó-dæg wé habbað hwónlíce be hláf, ac tó-merigen wé sceolon habban genihtsumlíce (cf. quare de panis inopia vester animus contristatur ? Hodie quidem minus est, sed die crastina abundantes habebitis Gr. D. c. 21), Hml. Th. ii. 172, 2

in-swán

(n.)
Grammar
in-swán, es, m.
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The herd who had charge of the lord's swine Ǽlc gebúr sylle .vi. hláfas ðam inswáne ðonne hé his heorde tó mæstene drífe omnis geburus det vi. panes porcario curie quando gregem suum minabit in pastinagium, L. R. S. 4; Th. i. 434, 21

wrítan

Grammar
wrítan, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Þonne mon þá hláfas wrát tó þicgeanne, þonne orn þǽr blód út cum panes per convivia frangerentur, cruor e mediis panibus fluxit, Ors. 5, 10; S. 234, 5. Add Hé Cristes róde tácen þǽr tóweard wrát signum crucis edidit, Gr. D. 105, 9

þearfan

(v.)
Grammar
þearfan, p. de; pp. ed
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Ða ðe hira hláf sellaþ ðǽm synfullum ðe ðearfende beóþ, nalles for ðæm ðe hié synfulle beóþ ac for ðæm ðe hié menn beóþ and ðearfende beóþ qui indigenti etiam peccatori panem suum, non quia peccator, sed quia homo est, tribuit, Past. 44; Swt. 327, 8.

breád

a bitbread

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Th. 147, 6: stycce hláfes, Ps. Srt.), Bl. Gl. bread: Breád bacan, Wlfst. 296, 8. Þám mannum sceal man sellan beren bread, Lch. ii. 220, 7. Þicge hé bread gebrocen on hát wæter, 264, 5

of-þænnan

(v.)

to moisten

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Mid hláfes cruman ofþendum mid cealdwætre, 82, 7

Linked entry: þǽnan

be-brecan

(v.)
Grammar
be-brecan, he, heó -briceþ, -bricþ; p. -bræc, pl. -brǽcon ; pp. -brocen

To break off deprive by breakingto break to piecesconsumecarpendo spoliareconfringereconsumere

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Bebrocene wǽron ealle hyra hláfas consumpti erant omnes eorum panes, Gr. Dial. 2, 21

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glæs-fæt

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Gedó on glæsfæt, and þonne mid hláfe lapa on and nytta; ge þeáh þú mid cuclere ꝥ súpe, þæt hylpþ, Lch. ii. 184, 23. a lamp Hú Bonnosus ꝥ tóbrokene glæsfæt geedstaðelode . . .

for-cnídan

(v.)
Grammar
for-cnídan, p. ic, he -cnád, ðú -cnide, -cnyde, pl. -cnidon; pp. -cniden

To beat or break into piecesdash or throw downcomminuĕrecontĕrĕrecollidére

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Ealle trumnysse hláfes he forcnád omne firmāmentum pānis contrīvit, 104, 15. Setl his on lande ðú forcnyde sēdem ejus in terra collīsisti, 88, 43

ge-met

Grammar
ge-met, <b>;
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Add Hé þone regol þe hé mid his handum áwrát betǽhte Maure mid him tó hæbbenne and heora hláfes gewiht and heora wínes gemett, Hml. S. 6, 68. <b>VII ¶.</b> add: Solil. H. 17, 9

ele-bacen

(part.)
Grammar
ele-bacen, pp.

Oil-baked, baked in or with oil ŏleo coctus, ŏleătus

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Oil-baked, baked in or with oil; ŏleo coctus, ŏleătus Manna híg gadredon and grundon on cwyrne oððe britton and sudon on croccan and worhton hláfas ðǽrof: ða wǽron híg swilce híg wǽron elebacene pŏpŭlus collĭgens Man frangēbat mŏla sive tĕrēbat in mortārio

Linked entry: bracan

wic-þegen

(n.)
Grammar
wic-þegen, es; m.
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Interl. 66, 6) ánre tíde ǽr gemǽnum gereorde gán tó hláfe . . . Æfterfylige ðære tóweardan wucan wicþén, R. Ben. pp. 58-60. Se diácon wucþén diaconus hebdomadarus, Anglia xiii. 415, 721. Fram mæssepreóste wucþéne a sacerdote ebdomadario, 395, 435.

reáf

(n.)
Grammar
reáf, es; n.
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Hláf tó etenne and reáf tó werigenne, 28, 20. Ðæt hálie reáf ðæt Aaron wereþ, Ex. 29, 29. Johannes hæfde reáf of olfenda hǽrum, Mt. Kmbl. 3, 4. His reáf ( vestimenta ) wǽron swá hwíte swá snáw, 17, 2. Hí sǽton on blacum reáfum weán on wénum, Cd.