wana
wanting ⬩ lacking ⬩ absent ⬩ to be wanting ⬩ wanting for the completion of a number
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Synn wana ná byð peccalum non deerit, Scint. 78, 4 : Kent. Gl. 335. Wana sié absit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 57. Mé synd wana penegas desunt mihi nummi, Ælfc. Gr. 32; Zup. 202, 13.
wudu
wood ⬩ the substance of growing trees ⬩ a tree ⬩ (hewh) wood ⬩ the material obtained from trees ⬩ wood which forms something ⬩ something made of wood ⬩ wood ⬩ wood ⬩ the wood ⬩ woods ⬩ a wood ⬩ wild
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Surt. 82, 15. ¶ in several instances of compounds with wudu it may be rendered by wild; Similar entries e.g. wudu-bucca, -cerfille, -hunig, -rose
hám
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Geþenca hweðer áwiht mani mann cynges hám séce þér ðǽr hé on túne byð, Solil. H. 44, 2. Hé Hróðgáres hám gesóhte, B. 717. Hé þǽr háligne hám árǽrde, Gú. 120: 242. Hý hleóleáse háma þoliað, 193.
Ælfréd
Alfred ⬩ Alfrédus ⬩ Alfred the Great
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D. 893, was the Compendious History of the World, written in Latin by the Spanish monk Orosius in A. D. 416.
ge-wítan
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Ox. 1495. by dat. Heó ( Hagar ) gewát engles lárum hire hláfordum (cf.
yfel
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Ðorn byð þearle scearp, anfengys yfel ( bad to take hold of ), Runic pm. Kmbl. 340, 1; Rún. 3. Ic hit mid yfelre bysene inc forgylde, Blickl. Homl. 189, 25. Yfele habban sorge, Exon. Th. 376, 32; Seel. 163.
hundred
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Ducentesimus sé ðe byd on ðám twám hundredum aftemyst, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 284, 1. Ofer ðrím hundradum tribunus bið forwost, Mk. L. 6, 21 marg. Hundredum centuriis (exercitus in centuriis et millibus conglobatos), An. Ox. 882.
ge-lǽstan
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</b> to perform what is enjoined by law. secular Him ( Edward ) þúhte ꝥ hit mæctor gelǽst wǽre þonne hit scolde, ꝥ hé ǽr beboden hæfde, Ll. Th. i. 162, 3. Wé beódad . . .
ge-þeódan
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Drihtne, þonne byð án gást his and Drihtnes scriptum est, 'Qui adhaeret Domino, unus spiritus est,' Gr. D. 136, 13: 17.
CEÓSAN
to CHOOSE, select, elect ⬩ legere, seligere, eligere ⬩ to accept ⬩ oblatum accipere, accipere
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Kmbl. 3217; An. 1611. to accept by choice or what is offered, to accept; oblatum accipere, accipere Ðæt he ðone cynedóm ciósan wolde that he would accept the kingdom, Beo. Th. 4742; B. 2376.
DURRAN
DARE, presume ⬩ audēre
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The inf. durran and the pres. dear, pl. durron, retaining preterite inflections, are taken from the p. of the verb, ascertained from dear, pl. durron, which shews the ablaut or internal change off], and requires by analogy with other verbs of the same
mǽnan
To mean ⬩ to intend to convey a certain sense ⬩ to intend to indicate a certain person or thing without direct statement ⬩ to mean ⬩ purpose ⬩ have as an object to which the mind is directed ⬩ intend ⬩ to signify ⬩ have a certain signification or purpose
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Hwæt ðú ðonne mǽne mid ðære gítsunge ðæs feós what do you mean by the greed of money? 32, 1; Fox 114, 7. (of things) to signify, have a certain signification or purpose Saga hwæt ic mǽne, Salm.
notu
use ⬩ profit ⬩ advantage ⬩ an office ⬩ employment ⬩ the discharge of an office ⬩ conduct of business
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Ben. 29, 5. the discharge of an office, conduct of business Gif hit beón mæg swylc notu þurh decanonas on mynstre sý gefadod ... ðæt ná nán ǽnlípig ne módige ðonne mynstres notu manegum biþ betǽht if possible, let such a conducting of its business by
siððan
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Th. 3, 21 ; Cri. 39. conj. where the tense of the verb in the clause introduced by siððan is past, in the other clause present, since Ðé is ungelíc wlite, siððdan ðú lǽstes míne láre, Cd. Th. 38, 28 ; Gen. 613 : Exon. Th. 44, 13 ; Cri. 702.
slǽd
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By slente oþer slade, Allit. Pms. 5, 141. Loke a littel on þe lannde on þi lyfte honde & þon schal se in þat slade þe self chapel, Gaw. 2147
Linked entries: sléd wíþig-slǽd wæter-slæd
tácnian
to make a mark upon something, to mark ⬩ to be a token or mark of something, to indicate, mark ⬩ to indicate, point out ⬩ to signify ⬩ to be the figurative expression of, be a figure of something, to symbolize ⬩ to indicate what is future, to portend
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Homl. 129, 18. to signify, to express a meaning by means of figure or symbol, to express figuratively or symbolically Hálige gewreotu ús tácniaþ ðás world þurh ðone mónan, Blickl. Homl. 17, 21.
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borh
payment ⬩ suretyship ⬩ security ⬩ loan ⬩ debt
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., by another, suretyship, security Borges andsaca (-u?) infictiatio, idem et abjuratio, Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 27. Feohlǽnung bútan borge ypotheca, i. 21, 9. Ðis synt þá men þe synt anburge (-byrge? cf. Icel. á-byrgð responsibility; or on borge ?)
ge-gaderung
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H. 165, 35. a whole formed by joining Hwæþer þé þynce unweorþ seó gegaderung ðára þreóra þinga, ðonne þá þreó biþ tó ánum gedón, Bt. 33, 1; F. 120, 29. what joins, a bond Hí beóð álýsde fram þǽre gegaderunge heora líchaman a carnis suae copula solvantur
geornlíce
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Cf. georne, Him se gýsel ongan geornlíce fylstan, By. 265. Heó geornlíce míne sáwle swýðe onbígdon, Ps. Th. 56, 7. Hí geornlíce Godes costadan they did all they could to tempt God, 77, 20. diligently.
ge-feón
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Gefeónde for ðǽre andsware, 207, 8: Past. 213, 13. by gerundial infin. Gefaeh swé swé gigent tó earnenne on weg. Ps. Srt. 18, 6