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helpan

to succourto be serviceableto profitavail

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H. 223. 3. to relieve a malady, remedy a weakness Ic geléfo, help (tóhelpe, R. adjuva) ungeleaffulmse mínne, Mk. L. 9, 24

helpend-ráp

(n.)
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helpend-ráp, es; m.
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A rope used to help or support Helpendráp opiffera, Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 47

Linked entry: helpend-bǽre

hel-rán

Similar entry: hell-rún

hemming

(n.)
Grammar
hemming, himming, es; m.
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A boot made of raw hide Hemming, i. rúh scó pero, Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 6. Himming, 117, 5

heofone

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Hwí is ꝥ tácn (the rainbow) on þǽre lyftenan (-ran, MS.) heofonan (cf. arcum meum ponam in nubibus et erit signum, Gen. 9, 13) gesewen ?

heall

(n.)
Grammar
heall, es; m.

A stonerock

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A stone, rock Þám strengestan(-e, MS.) stáne, healle robustissim petre (cf. Mt. 7, 24), An. Ox. 4111. ¶ in place names, as the name of a person. Cf.Icel. Hallr: In halles burge, C. D. iii. 377, 24. Heallingwara mearc wið Halles meres, 400, 27.

healm

stubblestrawa strawstalk

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R. 3, 17. stubble as representing the arable land from which a crop has been gathered: Ciricsceat mon sceal ágifan tó ðám healme and tó ðám heorðe (according to the amount of cultivated arable land and to the kind of house.

heard-heort

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Þá unstillan and þá heardheortan abbud sceal þreágean indisciplinatos et inquietos debet arguere, R. Ben. 13, 12

hiw

(adj.)
Grammar
hiw, l. híw,

shapeformshapefigurea formshapewritingappearanceaspectcolourformkindnaturecharacterformulaformtypemodela pretexa fancya kindspecies

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Rdr. 39, 5. of abstractions, form, type, model, appearance that shews evidence of a quality Mǽþhades híwe uirginitatis typum, i. speciem, An. Ox, 299. On ymbsnidenesse híwe (tipo), 40, 17. Of hífe (híwe, Hpt.

híwcúþa

(n.)
Grammar
híwcúþa, an; m.
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Híwcúðum geleáfan domesticis fidei, R. Ben. I. 87, 16

Linked entry: híw-cúþ

(int.)
Grammar
hí, hig

an interjection

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Rdr. 119, 5. Hyg lá, Ps. L. 119, 5. Hí lá hí, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 280, 13

Linked entry: hig-lá

hider

to this worldto this lifein this worldto this pointhither and thitherto and fro

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R. 22, 12. Þæt ic ne cymo hider (hidder, L.), Jn. R. 4, 15. Ic mægenbyrðénne hider út ætbær, B. 3092. Mec mín fæder hider onsende, Jul. 322. Bringað hyne tó mé hider (hidir, L.) afferte huc illum ad me, Mt. 17, 17. Gá hé hider tó mé jungatur mihi.

Linked entry: hider-cyme

heago-rún

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Add: cf. heah-rún

heáh-fæder

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Th. i. 396, 9. in Christian times, a father of the church Rǽde him mon líf þǽra heáhfædera ( vitas patrum ), R. Ben. 66, 17. the chief of a religious community, an archimandrite Héhfæder, láreów archimandrita, i. princeps ouium, An.

heáh-nes

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Ne wællað gié in heánnise (heónisse, R.) genime nolite in sublime tolli, Lk.

Linked entry: heá-nes

heah-rún

(n.)
Grammar
heah-rún, e; f.
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Cf. hel-rún, hel-rýnegu, helle-rúne; heago-rún, hægtesse

Linked entry: hell-rún

heáh-sácerd

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R., summus autem sacerdos), Mk. 14, 53-63. Þá biscopas and ðá heáhsácerdas, Hml. A. 135, 661. Cyninga bearn and wítegena and heáhsácerda, 129, 437: 131, 489. Hí lǽddon hine ( Joseph ) tó ðám biscope and tó þám heáhsácerdum, 135, 648. Add

heáh-setl

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Bifore héhsedle Godes, Rtl. 48, 3. Héhsedlo thronos, 113, 12. a judgement-seat Fore héhsedle (dómsetle, W. S.) pro tribunali, Mt. L. 27, 19. Biforan héhseðile Crístes ante tribunal Christi, Rtl. 13, 7.

híred-cúþ

(adj.)
Grammar
híred-cúþ, adj.

Familiardomestic

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Familiar, domestic Betere ys þincg híredcúþ beón gewanud þænne sáwle hǽle forwyrþan melius est rem familiarem minui quam animę salutem perire, Scint. 203, 13

hlít

(n.)
Grammar
hlít, es; m. (but in Ps. L. 30, 16 the word seems feminine).

lotfatefortune

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R. 15, 24. the urn in which the lots were placed: Hléte urna (matronam, quam suprema sors gemina mortis mulctaverat urna, Ald. 25,9), Hpt.

Linked entries: hlét hlot hlyt