Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

cearc

(n.)
Grammar
cearc, es; m. n?

Care, anxietycura, sollicitudo

Entry preview:

Care, anxiety; cura, sollicitudo Iudas ne meahte oncyrran cearces [MS. rex, =crex, =cerx, = cearx, = cearces] geníðlan Judas could not avert the pressure of anxiety, El. 610

for-togenes

(n.)
Grammar
for-togenes, -ness, e; f.

A tuggingdrawing togethergripingcrampconvulsioncontractioconvulsiospasmus

Entry preview:

A tugging, drawing together, griping, cramp, convulsion; contractio, convulsio; spasmus Wið fortogenesse innan for inward griping or colic, L. M. 2, 33; Lchdm. ii. 236, 32

Linked entry: togenness

Fres-cyning

(n.)
Grammar
Fres-cyning, es; m.

A Frisian kingFresōnum rex

Entry preview:

A Frisian king; Fresōnum rex Nalles he Frescyninge breóstweorbunge bringan móste he could not bring the ornament to the Frisian king, Beo. Th. 5000; B. 2503

Linked entry: Frys-cyning

scip-réðra

(n.)
Grammar
scip-réðra, an; m.
Entry preview:

Hé on scyp code, and myd hys scypréðrum hys segl up áhóf, and forþ seglode, St. And. 38, 32

trymman

(v.)
Grammar
trymman, trymian; p. trymede. I. to make firm or
Entry preview:

On ðǽm medwísan is tó trymmanne (trymmianne, Cote.

wuldor-gást

(n.)
Grammar
wuldor-gást, es; m.

A spirit of gloryglorious spiritan angel

Entry preview:

A spirit of glory, glorious spirit, an angel Of roderum wuldorgást Godes wordum mǽlde (angelus Domini de coelo clamavit, Gen. 22, 11), Cd. Th. 176, 15; Gen. 2912

efen-gemyndig

(adj.)
Grammar
efen-gemyndig, adj.
Entry preview:

Commemorative Ealle þá syndon nú from heora eágum gewitene, and nǽfre efngemyndige hider eft ne cumaþ ( will never come back here to commemorate them ), Bl. H. 101, 1

Linked entry: ge-myndig

hwón-lotum

(adv.)
Entry preview:

Huónhlotum parumper (cf. parumper, satis modice, Corp. Gl. H. 88, 96), Txts. 85, 1515

tapor-æx

Entry preview:

Russian topor an axe, and to have come from Scandinavia to England

gærs-gréne

Entry preview:

H. carbasini, color gemme, id est uiridis), Wrt. Voc. ii. 128, 55

ge-slyht

(n.)
Grammar
ge-slyht, -sleht, -sliht, es; n.

Battlefightconflict

Entry preview:

Battle, fight, conflict Swá he níþa gehwane genesen hæfde slíþra geslyhta so he had come safely out of every enmity, every fierce conflict, Beo. Th. 4787; B. 2398

brúcan

Entry preview:

Seó sáwl mót brúcan þæs heofenlican coelo fruens , Bt. 18, 4; F. 68, 17 : 24, 2 ; F. 82, 16 : Bl. H. 39, 24.

súpan

(v.)
Grammar
súpan, p. seáp, pl. supon; pp. sopen.
Entry preview:

Parv. 466, col. 2

Linked entries: sype sypian sopa

un-lǽd

(adj.)
Grammar
un-lǽd, -lǽde; adj.

poormiserableunhappyunfortunatepoormiserablewretched

Entry preview:

Catal. 134, col. 1. Swá heó ðæs unlǽdan ( Holofernes ) eáþost mihte wel gewealdan, Judth. Thw. 23, 3; Jud. 102. Ða þrowunga ðe hé ádreág æt ðæm unlǽdan folce Iudéa, Blickl. Homl. 97, 16.

Linked entries: -lǽde lǽd

hwanne

(adv.)
Grammar
hwanne, hwænne, hwonne; adv.

When

Entry preview:

When. in direct questions Quando venisti hwænne cóm ðú? is interrogativum, Ælfc. Gr. 38; Som. 40, 64. Hwonne ǽr beó deád oððe hwænne his nama áspringe quando morietur, et peribit nomen ejus? Ps.

Linked entries: hwænne hwonne

síþ

(prep.; adv.; con.)
Entry preview:

Th. 110, 14 ; Gú. 107. conj. After Síþ heora tuuege dæg ágán sié. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 47, 2

æppel

(n.)
Grammar
æppel, nom. ac. pl. æp(p)la, ap(p)la, æpplas (apples of eye); gen. pl. appla, æpplena; m.: appla (-u, v. finger-æppel), æppel (? æppel mala, Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 40); n.

an apple (in a special and in a general sense as in oak-apple)an apple-shaped objectan eye-ball

Entry preview:

Similar entries v. cod-, corn-, hunig-, weax-æppel

clawung

(n.)
Grammar
clawung, e; f. [clá a claw]

A pain, the gripestormina

Entry preview:

M. cont. 2, 32; Lchdm. ii. 164, 16: 2, 32; Lchdm. ii. 236, 1

ellen-spræc

(n.)
Grammar
ellen-spræc, e; f.

Powerful speech pŏtens sermo

Entry preview:

Powerful speech; pŏtens sermo He ne meahte ellenspræce, hleóðor ahebban he could not raise his voice, his powerful speech, Exon. 49 b; Th. 171, 18; Gú. 1128

elra

(adj.)
Entry preview:

comp? Stranger He ne métte on elran men mundgripe máran he did not find a stronger hand-gripe in a stranger man, Beo. Th. 1509; B. 752

Linked entry: egle