be-healdan
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Hit ǽr hit nolde behaldan wið unnyt word otiosa cavere verba negligit, Past. 279, 4. On sibbe behealden, Ps. Th. 75, 2. to take care, beware Beheald þæt ðú ðás dǽde ne dó, Hml. Th. i. 38, 25: Lch. i. 332, 6: ii. 318, 19.
heán
low ⬩ poor ⬩ mean ⬩ ignoble ⬩ base ⬩ humbled ⬩ depressed ⬩ dejected ⬩ cast down ⬩ miserable ⬩ wretched ⬩ mean ⬩ base ⬩ low
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Ealle gelíce on woruld cumað, wlance and heáne, Met. 17, 6. Ne mæg ǽnig . . . rícra ne heánra, Gú. 968. Wloncum and heánum.
útan
from without ⬩ without ⬩ on the outside ⬩ on the outside ⬩ on the surface ⬩ outwardly ⬩ about ⬩ round ⬩ out ⬩ away from land
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Ðeáh hé fæger word útan ætýwe, Fragm. Kmbl. 32; Leás. 18. with ymb or be and verbs of motion or rest, about, round Ðæt hé hine ǽghwonon útan ymbsáwe (cf. behealde hé on feówer healfe, Bt. 19; Fox 68, 21), Met. 10, 4.
swín
a swine. ⬩ the image of a boar as the crest of a helmet.
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Th. i. 436; while the frequent occurrence of the word swín in local names, v. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. . 339, may be taken as further evidence.
searu
Device ⬩ design ⬩ contrivance ⬩ art ⬩ craft ⬩ artifice ⬩ wile ⬩ deceit ⬩ stratagem ⬩ ambush ⬩ treachery ⬩ plot ⬩ in a good sense ⬩ art ⬩ skill ⬩ contrivance ⬩ skilfully ⬩ ingeniously ⬩ with art ⬩ that which is contrived with art ⬩ a machine ⬩ engine ⬩ fabric ⬩ armour ⬩ equipment ⬩ arms
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Device, design, contrivance, art. in the following glosses it is uncertain whether the word is used with a good or with a bad meaning Sarwo adventio. Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 38. Searo molimen, 54, 29. Searwe molimine, 89, 64. Searwe argumenta, 84, 69.
Linked entries: searo searu-níþ searu-wundor siru
stów
A place ⬩ a place, spot, locality, site ⬩ a place on the body ⬩ a place which is built, a house or collection of houses, a habitation, dwelling ⬩ a place, position, station ⬩ a place in a series ⬩ place, room, stead ⬩ a place, passage in a book
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The word remains either alone or in composition in place-names, e. g. Stow in Huntingdonshire, Stowe in Northamptonshire, Chepstow old ceáp-stów q. v. Stów locus, Wrt.
lǽran
To teach ⬩ instruct ⬩ educate ⬩ to preach ⬩ to exhort ⬩ admonish ⬩ advise ⬩ persuade ⬩ suggest
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Se wiðerméda wordum lǽrde folc tó gefeohte, Andr. Kmbl. 2392; An. 1198. Leóde lǽrde on lífes weg he brought people by his teaching into the way of life, 339; An. 170.
bodian
to tell, announce, proclaim, preach ⬩ nuntiare, annuntiare, enuntiare, narrare, prædicare, evangelizare ⬩ to foretell, predict, prophesy, promise ⬩ prædicere, promittere ⬩ to announce
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Ðæt wæs oft bodod ǽr befóran fram fruman worulde it was often foretold long before from the beginning of the world, Elen. Kmbl. 2280; El. 1141
Linked entries: bodiend-lic bodigean
Germania
Germany
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Also the very learned work, Cluverii Germania antiqua, Lugd. Batavorum, Elzevir, Fol. 1616: Lib. 1: Cap. xi. De magnitudine Germaniæ antiqux, pp. 94-98, also Lib. iii. Cap. xxxviii. pp. 157-162, and the map, p. 3.
ge-munan
To remember, bear in mind, consider ⬩ recordari, memorari, meminisse, meditari
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Híg gemundon his worda recordati sunt verborum ejus, Lk. Bos. 24, 8. Gemundon weardas wíg-leóþ the watchmen remembered the war-song, 154; Th. 191, 26; Exod. 220. Gemun ðín mann-weorod memento congregationis tui, Ps. Th. 73, 2.
ge-þyncþ
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dóme ðæs ryhtwísan Déman onwent sió geearnung ðone hád and ðá geðyncðo in examine recti judicis muta merita ordinum qualitas actionum, Past. 411, 25. (1 a) of a thing personified :-- Þes dǽl (the participle) næfð nǽnne stede of him selfum, ac byð of worde
on-líhtan
of places or things, to illumine, make bright, cause to shine, ⬩ to give sight to, make the sight clear ⬩ to clear the mental vision, to enlighten ⬩ to give light (with dat.) ⬩ To shine
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Worda mé ðínra wíse onleóhteþ, Ps. Th. 118, 130. Ne onlíhtaþ hí nánht ðæs módes eágan, Bt. 34, 8; Fox 144, 32. Ðú simle míne sáwle onlíhtest, Homl. Th. i. 74, 31. Hé hié onlýhte mid ðæs Hálgan Gástes gife, Blickl. Homl. 145, 6.
Linked entries: en-líhtan in-líhtan on-leóhtan on-lýhtan
FULL
FULL ⬩ filled ⬩ complete ⬩ entire ⬩ plēnus ⬩ sătiātus ⬩ confertus ⬩ intĕger
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Of ðære tíde, Paulinus, syx geár fulle, on ðære mǽgþe Godes word bodade and lǽrde Paulīnus ex eo tempŏre sex annis contĭnuis, verbum Dei in ea provincia prædĭcābat, Bd. 2, 14; S. 517, 33.
níwe
new ⬩ not yet used ⬩ new ⬩ recent ⬩ not of long standing ⬩ not long made ⬩ new (to anything) ⬩ inexperienced ⬩ new ⬩ novel ⬩ different from what has gone before
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Fægere word ðis synd . . . ac forðon hí níwe syndon and uncúþe, Bd. 1, 25; S. 487, 9. Lyt swígode níwra spella, se ðe næs gerád, Beo. Th. 5788; B. 2898. Hí sprecaþ níwum tungum, Mk. Skt. 16, 17.
Linked entry: níwung
wíd
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Th. i. 542, 29. fig. not confined within narrow limits, of far-reaching power Ne behwylfan mæg heofon and eorðe his wuldres word wíddra and síddra ðonne befæð-man mæge eorðan ymbhwyrft and uprodor, Cd.
eft
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. ¶ In the Northern glosses the prefix re- in many Latin verbs is rendered by eft, but the English word is separable; cf. eft tó cerranne reuerti, Lk. R. L. 19, 12
hund
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Add: The word is used both as substantive (governing a noun in the genitive) or as adjective (agreeing with noun).
on-gitan
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Ðá ðe ðá word ðǽre hálgan ǽ ryhtlíce ongietan cunnon qui recte verba legis intelligunt, 371, 1. <b>VI a.</b> to understand a person, perceive the true character of :-- Ðonne hié hié selfe ongietað ad se reducti, Past. 293, 25.
sǽ
Sea . ⬩ sea ⬩ sea ⬩ sea ⬩ a sea ⬩ a sea, lake
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The word is found in the following glosses Sǽ mare vel aequor, Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 62 : 70,13 . Brym, sǽ aequor, 53, 50. Sǽ latex (latex?), ii. 53, 17, Ðæs ýþiendan sǽs fluctivagi ponti, 149, 61. And sǽ et salis, 32, 28. Mid sǽ cum pelago, 21, 27.
lang
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Ne wǽron þás ( ages of the world ) ealle gelíce lange, Bl. H. 119, 3. of state or action, cf. (2 b) Ne bið þæs lengra swice sáwelgedáles þonne seofon niht, Gú. 1007.