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lufian

(v.)
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Add: I. with object a person or personal adjunct. to have a great affection or regard for, hold dear, the subject a person Ic lufiu (diligam) ðé, Ps. Srt. 17, I. Sé þe his feónd lufað, Mód. 70. Hí his naman lufiað diligunt nonten ejus, Ps. Th. 68, 37

be-healdan

(v.)
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Add: to hold, occupy, a place Þá wíc beheóld hálig gást, hreðer weardode, El. 1144. Seó þe flóda begong beheóld hund missera, B. 1498. an office Þegn nytte beheóld, B. 494. Seleweard sundornytte beheóld ymb aldor Dena, 667. to hold, contain Bihaldne

ge-læccan

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Add Ic gelæcce arripio, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 275, 12. without sense of violence. to take, take hold of, catch Þá árás hé and gelæhte hine be þám swuran, and cyste and clypte, Hml. S. 30,335. to take, catch fish, &c. On ðám ǽrran fixnoðe wurdon swá

heán

low ⬩ poor ⬩ mean ⬩ ignoble ⬩ base ⬩ humbled ⬩ depressed ⬩ dejected ⬩ cast down ⬩ miserable ⬩ wretched ⬩ mean ⬩ base ⬩ low

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Add: of persons. of low degree, of humble condition, low, poor, as opposed to ríce, welig, wlanc Se hálga (Noah) cwæð þæt hé (Ham) wesan sceolde heán . . . hleómága þeów (servus servorum erit fratribus suis, Gen. 9, 25), Gen. 1595. Ic mé ceóse þæt ic

á-licgan

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Add: to be at an end, come to an end, be brought low Mín wynn álæg there was an end to my joy, Ps. Th. 119, 5. Nó hira þrym álæg, An. 3. Ful oft þǽr wíg ne álæg rarely did war cease, Vid. 119. Symbel ne álégon feasts never failed, Reim. 5. Álicgan heonan

Linked entry: á-lecgan

be-windan

girdle ⬩ encircle ⬩ surround

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Add: to wrap an object in or with something Heó bewand þá hand on godwebbe, Shrn. 59, 35. Hé hine biwand in líne turn involvit sindone. Mk. R. 15, 46. Biuundun (ligauerunt) mid hræglum, Jn. L. 19, 40. Bewindan (involvant) hi þæs cildes hand on weofodsceate

bíte

(n.)
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bíte, l. bite,

a bite ⬩ the bite

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and add: a bite Wiþ nǽdran bite, Lch. ii. 110, 19. Bite morsum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 60. Swá hwilcne swá þæt hors mihte, hit slát and wundode hiora lima mid bitum, Gr. D. 78, 5. of the effect of cancer :-- Ealne þone bite þæs cancres heó áfeormað, Lch.

cæppe

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Placidus cwæð þæt hé gesáwe bufon his heáfde Benedictus cæppan (kæppan melotem, Gr. D. 116, 12), and him wæs geðúht þæt seó cæppe him átuge of ðám streáme, Hml. Th. ii. 160, 18. Hé geann Eádwine mæssepreóst his kæppan (cope), Cht. Crw. 23, 17. Se munuc

camp-dóm

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Mannes líf is campdóm ofer eorðan (militia est vita hominis super terram), for ðan þe ǽlc . . . bið on gewinne wið ðone deófol, Hml. Th. ii. 454, 26: i. 418, 9 : Hml. S. 23, 86. Campdómes militiae, An. Ox. 868: 750. Compdómes, Txts. 180, 18: Rtl. 8,

deáþ-berende

(adj.)
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Add Þæs réþan and þæs deádberendan funesti, Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 12. Fram ðǽm deádberendum a funesto, 2, 30. of things, physical, deadly, pestilential Deáðberende smíc gǽð of heora múðe, Wlfst. 201, 1. Se deádberenda drinc pestifer potus, Gr. D. 104, 29

drohtian

(v.)
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Add: to live a life Ic drohtige conversor, i. locum uto, utor, habito, maneo, Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 50. Git hé self drohtað on ðám eorðlicum tielongum si in terrenis negotiis ipse versatur, Past. 133, 4. Menn wéndon ðæt hé ǽfæsðlíce drohtode ( degere religiose

eahta

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Add: as adjective Eahta eádignyssa synd ... þá eahta eádignyssa belimpað tó mannum, Hml. Th. i. 554, 9, 13. Eahta (ehta, v. l. ) hund míla lang, Bd. 1, 1; Sch. 8, 2. Ehta (æhto, L., æhtowe, R.) dagas, Lk. 2, 21. Æfter eahta (æhtuo. L., dæge æhtowum,

ellen

(v.)
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ellen, ellern (-aern), elle

elder-tree

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elder-tree. Ellaen, ellae, ellaern sambucus, Txts. 94, 893. Elle sambuca, 109, 1131. Ellen sambucus, Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 67: actis vel sambucus, 69, 31. Elnes rind, Lch. ii. 230, 14. In tó gryddeles elrene, of gryddeles elrene in tó ðára smalan ác, C.

ge-hradian

(v.)
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Substitute: trans, (i) to cause a thing to be done rapidly Hé sóna getimbrian hét mǽrlic mynster on þreóra geára fæce. ꝥæt wile þincan ungeleáflic eallum þǽm þe þá stówe on uferum tídum geseóð and þis ne gemunaþ. Hé ꝥ; ilce mynster þus gehradod hét S

ge-lást

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Substitute: performance, act of performing Þæt hé ús þurh his gife gefultumige tó geláste his geboda, R. Ben. 5, 4. a performance, what is performed as an obligation, a vow. Cf. gelǽstan; 2 Þé bið ágolden gelást tibi reddetur uotum, Ps. Rdr. 64, 2:

ge-fég

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Add: of material objects Commisura, s. dicitur tabularum conjunctio gefég, cimbing, Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, 10. Gefége compage, An. Ox. 4440. Gefég compagines, i. conjunctions, juncturae, Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, 69. Of gefégum liniamentis (i. coniunctionibus)

ge-deorfan

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Substitute: to labour, do hard work Oxanhyrde, hwæt wyrcst þú ? Eálá, hláford mín, micel ic gedeorfe (laboro), Coll. M. 20, 25. to perish, be destroyed, be wrecked (lit. or fig.), of a person Gedurfan naufragauerunt (duae faeminae a fide), Wrt. Voc.

horu

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Add:: n. [A weak form occurs, Hml. S. 7, 129.] of physical impurity (or uncertain) Fúles horewes squalentis ceni, An. Ox. 3598. Mixe, horwe ceno, i. luto, Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 71. Fúle horewas putidos (ergastuli) squalores, An. Ox. 11, 134. of moral impurity

inca

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Add: an occasion, opportunity Beháten þá mágas þæt hý nǽfre nǽnne incan ne sécan, hú him tó syndrigum ǽhtum gerýmed sý promittent quia numquam ei tribuant occasionem habendi, R. Ben. 103, 18. Ne gedyrstlǽce heora nán ... þæt hé Godes áre gewanige oþþe

Iudéas

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Iudéas, l. Iúdéas, and add: Iúdan, Iúdéan; gen.
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Iúdéas cómon, Past. 33, 14: Jn. 11, 8. Alle Iúdéas (eal Iúdéa þeód, W. S.) omnis Iudaea, Mt. L. 3, 5. Wǽron Iúdan on miclum geflite, Ors. 6, 10; S. 266, 1. Ðis ys se Hælynd Iúdéa (Iúdéana, L., R.) cyning, Mt. 27, 37: Jn. 2, 13. Manega þára Iúdéa, 11,