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wícing

(n.)
Grammar
wícing, es; m.
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Captas centum et septuaginta naves mercibus confertas disiraxit, Ors. 3, 7; Swt. 116, 3.

Linked entry: scegð-mann

hweorfan

(v.)
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Paulinus huerf eft tó Cantwarum (hwearf eft tó Cent rediit Cantiam, Bd. 2, 20 ; Sch. 186, 24), Chr. 633 ; P. 24, 20. Þá hwearf sé ána in tó him rediit ipse solus, Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 357, 21: 5, 19; Sch. 660, 22.

láf

(n.)
Grammar
láf, e; f.

remnantremainsrelicremainderrestlavelegacyheirlooma relictwidow

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Paplinus genam Æðelburge Eádwines láfe and gewát on scipe tó Cent, 633; Erl. 25, 21. Ðá gewát Eádríc ... Ðá hæfde Eádríc láfe and nán bearn then Eadric died ... Eadric left a widow but no child, Chart. Th. 272, 22

Linked entries: lǽf

hund

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Þǽr wǽron xxx and c gearora ( centum triginta ), 172, 5: C. D. vi. 243, 12. Æfter l wintra and feówer hundum post annos quadringentos et quadraginta, Ors. 4, 7; S. 182, 19.

þegnung

(n.)
Grammar
þegnung, e; f.
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.; Swt. 3, 14. service of food, a meal, food served, food, provision. v. þegnian, II, and cf. gémung for similar specialization of a general term Ðá Drihtnes þénung wæs gemacod cena facta, Jn. Skt. 13, 2. Hé árás fram his þénunge surgit a cena, 4.

á-fédan

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H. 7. 31. to bring up, nurture Þám gelícost þe sum cyning háte sum wíf dón on carcern, and heó cenne cniht, and sé sý ðǽr áféded oð hé sý twéntigwintre, Wlfst. 3, l. On mínre scóle áféd and gelǽred ( nutritus ), Bt. 3, I; F. 4, 19.

ge-wiht

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Lch. i. 148, 23. an amount determined by weighing Cóm Nichodemus mid gemengedre sealfe of myrran and alwan, manegra punda gewyht ( uenit Nicodemus ferens mixturam murrae et aloes quasi libras centum, Jn. 19, 39), Hml. Th. ii. 260, 35.

scilling

(n.)
Grammar
scilling, es; m.
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Hundraþ scillinga centum denarios, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 18, 18. Þriim peninga ł scillinga, Jn. Skt. Lind. 12, 5. Þrítig scillinga triginta argenteos, Mt. Kmbl. 26, 15. Þúsend scyllinga on seolfre mille argenteos, Gen. 20, 16.

þríste

(adj.)
Grammar
þríste, and þríst; adj.

Boldboldpresumptuousaudaciousshameless

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Þríste sceal mid cénum, Exon. Th. 337, 8; Gn. Ex. 61. Gewát hé ( Andrew ) þríste on geþance, Andr. Kmbl. 473; An. 237. Elene, þríste on geþance, Elen. Kmbl. 533; El. 267. Eorl unforcúð, elnes gemyndig, þríst and þrohtheard, Andr.

Linked entries: þrístling þrýste

hwearfian

(v.)
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Sió sául sceolde hwearfian on hire selfre, swá swá eall þes rodor hwerfþ, oððe swá swá hweól onhwerfþ, 33, 4; F. 132, 11. to revolve round a centre, move round in an orbit. of a material body Ðá tunglu lengestne ymbhwyrft habbaþ þe ymb þá eaxe middewearde

A

(prefix)
Grammar
A, A. It is not necessary to speak of the form of what are often called Anglo-Saxon letters, as all Teutonic, Celtic, and Latin manuscripts of the same age are written in letters of the same form. There is one exception: the Anglo-Saxons had, with great propriety, two different letters for the two distinct sounds of our th: the hard þ in thin and sooth, and the soft ð in thine and soo
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Sax. a-bídan = bídan, so a-cende = cende Ic todæg cende [cende Surt; acende Spl. T; Th.] ðé ego hodie genui te, Ps. Spl. 2, 7. A-beran = beran to bear :-- Hefige byrðyna man aberan ne mæg a man is not able to bear heavy burdens, Mt. Bos. 23, 4.

feormian

(v.)

to maintainfosterto feast

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Th. 497, 8, 19: 496, 1. where the obligation is to the lord: On sumon landum se geneát sceal hláford feormian, Ll, Th. i. 432, 14. to feast Feormode se ealdorman his heáhþegnas fecit cenam servis suis, Hml. A. 111, 282.

symbel

(n.)
Grammar
symbel, symel, es; n.

a feast, banquet, entertainmenta feast,

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Herodes symbel (cenam) worhte, Mk. Skt. Lind. 6, 21. Hé hét beran on ðæt hús manegra cynna symbel, Shrn. 152, 25. Hé geaf mé sinc and symbel, Beo. Th. 4853; B. 2431. Symbel (ge)þicgan, 1242; B. 619: 2025; B. 1010. Symbel ymbsittan, 1132; B. 564.

teám

(n.)
Grammar
teám, es; m.

A line; but the word which is used in the related dialects (v. infra) with a physical meaning is used in English figuratively.a line of descendants, offspring, progeny, family, childrenbringing forth children, child-bearinga line of animals harnessed together, a team

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Ðá týmde Wulfstán hine (the woman) tó Æðelstáne; ðá cende hé tém and lét ðone forberstan. v. teám-byrst.

ge-wit

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.: the 13th cent. MS. has gódes gewitnesse) sýn and háligre drohtnunge (boni testimonii et sancte conversationis ), R. Ben. 46, 9. Ðæt gé nó tóhrædlíce ne sién ástyrede from gewitte ut non cito moveamini a vestro sensu, Past. 213, 16.

losian

(v.)
Grammar
losian, p. ode

To perishbe loststrayescape

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Gif hwylc mann hæfþ hund sceápa and him losaþ án of ðám ... ða nigon and hundnigontig ðe ná ne losedon si fuerint alicui centum oves et erraverit una ex eis ... nonaginta novem, quæ non erraverunt, Mt. Kmbl.18, 12, 13: Homl. Th. i. 338, 27.

Linked entry: lorian

gearwian

(v.)
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S.) mé ðætte ic giriordige para quod cenem, Lk. R. 17, 8. Georwigað (gearuas, L.) ús eóstru ꝥte wé ete, 22, 8. to bring to completion or maturity Se háta sumor drýgþ and gearwaþ sǽd and bléda, Bt. 39, 13; F. 234, 15. <b>III a.

CEORL

(n.)
Grammar
CEORL, es; m.

CHURL, countryman, husbandmanhomo liber, rusticus, colonus a man, husbandvir, maritusa free man

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Gif ceorl geþeáh, ðæt he hæfde fullíce fíf hída ágenes landes, cirican and cycenan [MS. ky-cenan ], bell-hús and burh-geat-setl, and sunder-note on cynges healle, ðonne wæs he ðonon-forþ þegen-rihtes weorþe if a free man thrived, so that he had fully

Linked entry: ciorl

ge-strínan

(v.)
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L. 6, 19. to get children, beget Cende ł gestriónde genuit, Mt. L. l, 2. Hé bearn gestrínde be his gebeddan, Ælfc. T. Grn. 3, 21. Gestriéne, Past. 43, 14. Gestríne, 42, 13. Gestrénen procreare, i. generare, An. Ox. 3387.

wilde

(adj.)
Grammar
wilde, adj.

Wildwildnot domesticnot tamednot broken inwildnot cultivatedwilduncultivateduninhabitedwildturbulentungoverned

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Wilde goos cente, Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 68: gente 109, 63. Wilde gos cante, 14, 21. Wæs sum wilde hrem, Homl. Th. i. 162, 21. Se wilda fugel ( the Phenix ), Exon. Th. 211, 21; Ph. 201. Hafuc sceal on glofe wilde gewunian, wulf sceal on bearowe, Menol.

Linked entries: ge-wilde wild-cyrfet