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mæstan

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Rdr. 22, 5. Add

mǽþ

Grammar
mǽþ, <b>. I.</b>
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Riht dóm ys þár ná mǽþa (personę) ac weorcu beóþ besceá-wude, 3. add: v. mǽþ-leás, -lic. add: v. mǽþ-full On ðǽre sylfan grétinge ǽlc sí gegearcod him mǽð in ipsa salutatione omnis exibiatur humanitas, R. Ben. I. 88, 6

leahter-full

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Gif se práfast hlehterful (hleahter-, lehter-, v. ll.) si propositus repertus fuerit vitiosus R. Ben. 126, 1. Gif hine mon leahtorfulne ongit (ǽnigne unðeáw on him ágitt, v. l.) si vitiosus inventus fuerit 109, 16. Add

leásettan

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Þonne hý sume mid geficum wið þone ánne þeódað and leásettað, sume wið þone óþerne dum adulantur partibus R. Ben. 125, 2. Add

lencten

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Ofer eal lencten (in quadragesima ) oþ eástran hý oð ǽfen fæsten, R. Ben. 66, 4-6. Be lenctenes gýmene de Quadragesime observatione 76, 2. On lænctenes fæstenes dagum in quadragesime diebus R. Ben. I. 82, 15.

lengan

(v.)
Grammar
lengan, to be long.
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Þonne wé eác for ðí on ðám sancge lencgað propter hoc protrahendo et morose volumus dici psalmum, R. Ben. 68, 9. Lenged protractum, An. Ox. 28, 17. Add

leógan

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Nis þæt seldguma . . næfne him his wlite leóge, B. 250. trans, To state incorrectly, make a mistake in what is said Gíf ǽnig þonne hé áginð sealm leógð rǽdinge si quis dum pronuntiat psalmum fallitur lectionem, R. Ben. l. 79, 12.

leógere

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R. 7, 6

leóht

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leóht, bright.
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Dele last passage but two, and add: bright, shining, luminous Wolcen léht (líht, R. beorht, W. S.) nubes lucida, Mt. L. 17, 5. Lyftwundor leóht ( the pillar of fire), Exod. 90. Se leóhta beám leódum byrhteð, Cri. 1090.

lífian

(v.)
Grammar
lífian, r. be-lífian.

líf-lád

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Add: course of life, lifetime Þæt feórðe muneca cyn . . . ealle heora lífláde ( tota vita sua ) geond missenlice þeóda farað, R.

líget-sliht

(n.)
Grammar
líget-sliht, e; f. l. es ; m.
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R. L. l 7, 24. Mycel mægn lígetslehta (liégiet-slyhta, v. l.) tanta coruscationis virtus, Gr. D. 167, 24. For hreónessum and lígetslehtum (-slihturn, v. l.) tempeslatibtis cortiscis, 133, 31. Leigeð-slæhtas fulgura, Mt. p. 10, 3

limb-stefning

(n.)
Grammar
limb-stefning, The gloss at Wrt. Voc. i. 61, 46 is:
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that the gloss should read, peripetasma, limbus stefning

lim-gesihþ

(n.)
Grammar
lim-gesihþ, physical vision, sight by means of the bodily eye (? cf. A man has na lym þat he is warere wiþ þan wiþ his eghe, Hamp. Ps. 16, 9. Þe lyme of syȝte
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Rdr. 301, 4

Linked entry: ge-siht

-ling

(suffix)
Grammar
-ling, es; m.
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Add: v. byrd-, cýþ-, efen-, heáfod-, mæst-, rǽp-, reád-, sib-, þeów-, þeówet-, under-, wǽdl- (?), wiþer-ling

mægen

Grammar
mægen, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Swá hwæt swá tóforan þám neádbehéfum belifen byþ on heora mægenes tilunge quidquid necessario victui superest ex operibus manuum, R.

mægen-leást

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Gif hé ongyt þæt þæs gebodes micelnes his mihta oferstíhð, hé . . . his mægenleáste his ealdre gecýþe, R. Ben. 128, 15. Add

mǽl

(n.)
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Gif hwám geboden sý tó ðigene, and hé hit mid gebelge forsace, ne sý him tó gewilnedum mǽle ( hora qua desideraverit ) nánre óðere þigene getíðad, R. Ben. 69, 21. Hý on án mǽl tó nónes gereorden ad nonam semper reficiant, 66, 5.

mǽnan

(v.)
Grammar
mǽnan, to lament. I.
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R. 5, 38. Mǽnendeand woepende lugentes et flentes, 16, 10. Add Hé wépende mǽnde þá unáre þe mon him búton gewyrhton dyde deplorans injurias suas Ors. 5, 12; S. 240, 9. Giweópun alle and mǽndun ðá ilca flebant omnes et plangebant illam Lk. R.

lofian

(v.)
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S. herende, R. laudantes) God, Lk. L. 24, 53. v. sealm-, ymb-lofian ; un-lofod: lof-lic. In l. 2 for 45 l. 55. Add