weler
A lip
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., and occasionally elsewhere, the word is feminine Wégende welere lying lips; labium mentiens (cf. [wele]ra labium, 418) Kent. Gl. 596. Welure labia Ps. Surt. 11, 3. Weolure 62, 6: 65, 14: 70, 23. Weolere 30, 19: 62, 4. Weolre 11, 5: 118, 171.
Linked entry: weoler
ǽrende
a message ⬩ an errand, a mission
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Ðíslic ǽrende se pápa onsende and ðás word cwæð, 205, 22. Hé geswór ðæt hé ðæt ǽrende ábeódan wolde . . . Æfter hé hit áboden hǽfde, hé hié heálsade ðæt hié nánuht ðára ǽrenda ne underfénge . . .
Linked entry: ǽrend
toft
a piece of ground, ⬩ messuage, ⬩ homestead ⬩ a place marked out for a house or building ⬩ a square piece of ground with walls but without roof ⬩ an enclosed home-field ⬩ campus ⬩ an elevated piece of ground ⬩ a field where a house or building once stood.
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A word apparently of Scandinavian origin, Icel. topt, tuft a piece of ground, messuage, homestead; a place marked out for a house or building; in the special later Icelandic sense a square piece of ground with walls but without roof: Dan. toft an enclosed
under-fón
to receive ⬩ to have given ⬩ to get ⬩ to receive ⬩ submit to ⬩ a rite ⬩ to receive a person ⬩ to receive for the purpose of entertaining, sheltering, harbouring ⬩ to receive for safe conduct, custody ⬩ to receive as a servant or dependent ⬩ to receive, admit into a society ⬩ to receive as a master ⬩ to submit to ⬩ to receive ⬩ admit the claims of ⬩ to receive, admit the force of a person's words ⬩ accept testimony ⬩ to receive what is offered ⬩ to accept ⬩ to receive ⬩ serve as a receptacle for ⬩ to receive or accept an office, a duty, etc. ⬩ to take upon one's self ⬩ to undertake a labour, task, etc. ⬩ to receive what is burdensome ⬩ undergo ⬩ bear ⬩ to take surreptitiously ⬩ to steal
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Se ðe míne word ne underféhð, hé hæfþ hwá him déme, 12, 48. Ne underfóð ealle menn ðis word, Mt. Kmbl. 19, 11. to receive what is offered, to accept Drihten gebed mín he underféng (-fang, MS.) Dominus orationem meam suscepit, Ps. Spl. 6, 9.
Linked entry: under-niman
tó-geagnes
towards, ⬩ so as to meet ⬩ against, ⬩ to meet ⬩ in the way of, ⬩ to meet the approach of ⬩ in readiness for, ⬩ against the coming of ⬩ against, ⬩ for the purpose of resisting ⬩ on the approach of, ⬩ towards ⬩ again, ⬩ in return
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Ðá geopenode seó sǽ tógeánes Moysen (the declension of the word in the translation of Exodous is dat, Moise; acc. Moise, Ex. 8, 8. Moises, 8, 25: 4, 27:16, 2, etc.), Ælfc. T.
ildest
eldest ⬩ oldest ⬩ principal ⬩ chief ⬩ greatest
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As the oldest might be supposed best fitted to fill the highest positions the word gets the meaning principal, chief, greatest Se yldesta cardinarius, i. primarius, Ælfc. Gl. 48; Som. 65. 66; Wrt. Voc, 14, 1.
leóht
Light ⬩ inconsiderable ⬩ quick ⬩ ready ⬩ nimble ⬩ fickle ⬩ easy
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Leóhtre ic eom micle ðonne ðes lytla wyrm I am much lighter than this little worm, Exon. 111 b; Th. 426, 19; Rä. 41, 76. Líhtre tolerabilius, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 10, 15.
lóc
look ⬩ see ⬩ however
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look, see, look you; the word often occurs in connection with a pronominal form, and seems equivalent to a suffixed -ever, loca hú however,. Efne oððe lóca nú hér hit is en, Ælfc. Gr. 38; Som. 40, 56 : Homl. Th. i. 358, 9.
Linked entry: LÓCIAN
plega
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Wé forbeódaþ ǽgðer ge plegan, ge unnytta word, ge gehwylce unnyttnesse in ðám hálgan stówum tó dónne, L. E. I. 10; Th. ii. 408, 22. Hié wǽron welige ... and heora plegan wǽron genihtsume . . . Hió hæfdon wiste and plegan and oforgedrync, Blickl.
Linked entries: plegan hand-plega
rád
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See also next word
tihtle
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E. 10; Th. i. 30, 19. v. frum-, stæl-, wiðer-tihtle; tiht, and next word
Linked entry: tyhtle
tunge
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Seó tunge ðe swá monig hálwende word on ðæs Scyppendes lof gesette, Bd. 4, 24; S. 599, Mín tunge mǽrde ðín weorc, Ps. Th. 70, 22. Alýs míne sáwle from ðære tungan ðe teosu wylle. Hwæt bið ié seald from ðære inwitfullan tungan ? 119, 2, 3.
trúwa
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Th. 527, 3. a solemn assurance of good faith, a covenant, word Se Frysa lét hine faran on his trúwan, Homl. Th. ii. 358, 22. Ic sette mín wedd on écne trúwan ( in foedus sempiternum). Gen. 17, 19. Ic behét mínne trúwan pepigi foedus, Ex. 6, 4.
Linked entry: trúa
un-geweald
impotence ⬩ inability to control ⬩ unintentionally ⬩ not wilfully ⬩ involuntarily
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The word occurs only in the genitive, with the force of an adverb. where an action is done without the actor's intending it, unintentionally, not wilfully, involuntarily Hé wræc his ungewealdes on ðære byrig hiora misdǽda, Ors. 6, 5; Swt. 262, 2.
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ýst
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Ís and ýste ealra gástas ðe his word willaþ wyrcean glacies, spiritus procellarum, quae faciunt verbum ejus, Ps. Th. 148, 8. Ðonne sǽ gemengaþ micla ýsta, Met. 5, 9. Æfter ðám ýþum úra geswinca ýsta gehwilcre, 21, 15. Ýsta procellarum, Blickl.
á-beódan
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Add: to announce, declare a message Hé word ábeád he delivered the words of his message, B. 390. Ðæt hé hyre ǽrende ábude ðám bisceope ðysum wordum, Hml. S. 2, 68. Ðæt ic wiþ ðé sceolde ǽrendsprǽce ábeódan, Räi. 61, 16. Áboden bið praedicabitur Lk.
Linked entry: eoton-weard
á-rǽran
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Gif se hláford him wile ꝥ land árǽran tó weorce and tó gafole if the lord want to raise the rent of the land for him by exacting work as well as payment, 146, 4. to extol Up áhefde, árǽrde extollit, An. Ox. 2425.
Linked entry: rǽran
éfestan
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Ic náht gehýðes hæbbe þis weorc tó begangenne, ne ic efstan ne mæg swá myccles síðfætes hider tó bringanne I have nothing convenient for doing this work, and I cannot undertake such a long journey to bring tools hither, Hml. S. 23 b, 784
ge-þafa
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Add: [The word, which occurs only as predicate of the verbs beón, weorþan, seems at least generally to be an adjective; in some instances it appears indeclinable, see the last three passages, and cf. similar adjectival forms in Icelandic.] where there
ge-wǽde
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Add: what is worn by a person. in a collective sense, clothing, raiment, clothes Gewoedo his huít swíðe gesceán uestitus eius albas refulgens, Lk. L. 9, 29. Of gewédo huæt gémende aro gé de uestimento quid sollicti estis?, Mt. L. 6, 28.