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be-swemman

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To wash an animal by sending it into the water þeáh swín beswemde weorðen, þonne sleáð hí eft on ðá solu and bewealwiað hí þǽron (sus lota reversa in volutabro luti). Add:

hrind

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</b> A hrind- form occurs in C. D. iii. 394, 6: On hrindan bróc, but there is nothing to show its meaning

sǽ-láf

(n.)

what is left by the sea,

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what is left by the sea, applied to the spoils of the Egyptians drowned in the Red Sea Ongunnon sǽláfe dǽlan, ealde mádmas, reáf and randas, Cd. Th. 215, 16; Exod. 584

riht-hǽmed

(n.)
Grammar
riht-hǽmed, es; n.

Legitimate matrimony

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geþeóded postea in matrimonio jungatur, L. Ecg. C. 19; Th. ii. 146, 2

óhsta

(n.)
Grammar
óhsta, an ; m.

The arm-pit, oxter

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The arm-pit, oxter (in northern dialects, e. g. Yorkshire, Cumberland, Scotland) Óhsta ascella, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 5. Ócusta, Ep. Gl. 2 b, 19. Óxtan ascilla, Wrt. Voc. - i. 283, 9

Linked entry: óxta

Súþ-Langbeardan

(n.)
Grammar
Súþ-Langbeardan, the people (or
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country) of Lombardy In þám dǽlum Súþ-Langbeardena (Suð-Langbeardena landes dǽlum, v. l.) in Campaniae partibus, Gr. D. 169, 30. In Suð-Langbeardum (-Longbardum, v. l.) in Italia, 25, 26: in parte Campaniae, 210, 25

ciric-weard

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Take here passages under cyrc-, cyric-weard, and add Ðæs cyricweardes tácen is þæt mon sette his twégen fingras on his twá eágan and dó mid his handa swylce hé wille áne hangigende bellan teón, Tech. ii. 118, 16.

dirne

(adj.)
Grammar
dirne, adj.
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Th. i. 56, 26. of stolen goods, concealed Ǽnigne þára þe ymbe þás smeágunge bið and ꝥ dyrne orf ámeldað, Ll. Th. i. 276, 33. v. following compounds; in some cases the passages given under them may belong to the simple adjective

Linked entries: derne dyrne

strídan

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Mon in the mone stond ant strit, Spec. 110, 1. Sete forth thyn other fot, stryd over sty, 111, 2. Love is stalewarde and strong for to striden on stede, An. Lit. 96, 9.]

slíþen

(adj.)
Grammar
slíþen, adj.

Cruel, hard, evil

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In ða slíþnan tíd in the evil days of the present life 316, 22; Mód. 52

Linked entry: slíþe

þeccan

(v.)
Grammar
þeccan, p. þeahte, þehte; pp. þeaht
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Sió filmen biþ þeccende and wreóde ða wambe, Lchdm. ii. 242, 17. ¶ In the following passages Grein suggests that the form is quite a different word = comburere, and Cosijn (P.

Linked entry: þacian

DISC

(n.)
Grammar
DISC, es; m.
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M. 1, 62; Lchdm. ii. 136, 9. Syle me on ánum disce Iohannes heáfod ðæs Fulluhteres da mihi in disco caput Ioannis Baptistæ, Mt. Bos. 14, 8, 11: Mk. Bos. 6, 25, 27. Se ðe his hand on disce mid me dypþ qui intingit mecum manum in cătĭno, 14, 20.

forane

(adv.)
Grammar
forane, forne; adv.

beforehandOppositein front ofagainst

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Lch. i. 110, 24. Forne geán Biccenclife, C. D. iii. 4, 12. Forne gén hys ágen land, iv. 221, 6. ongeán (á-) Oð ꝥ hé eft cume hyre forne ágeán, Lch. iii. 248, 17. tógeánes Ic him eft wille sændan fleógende fláne forane tógeánes, Lch. iii. 52, 25

Linked entry: forene

CWIC

(adj.)
Grammar
CWIC, cwyc, cwuc, cuc; def. se cwica, seó, ðæt cwice; adj.

Alive, QUICK vivus, vivax

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His is mycel sǽ, ðǽr is unrim cwycra his is the great sea, where is a countless number of things alive, Ps. Th. 103, 24.

ge-limp

(n.)
Grammar
ge-limp, es; n.

An eventaccidenta chanceaccĭdenscāsus

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Is ǽnig óðer on eallum ðám gelimpum búton godes yrre ofer ðas ðeóde swutol and gesýne is there anything else plain and visible in these events but God's anger over this people? Swt. A. S. Rdr. 109, 137.

Linked entries: be-limp ge-lymp

heofone

(n.)
Grammar
heofone, an; f.
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Heaven Heofone næs ná ǽr ǽrðan ðe se ælmihtiga wyrhta hí geworhte on anginne heaven was not before the almighty workman wrought it in the beginning, Hexam. i; Norm. 4. Heofenan ríce the kingdom of heaven, Homl. Th. i. 68, 2: 58, 4.

sǽ-streám

(n.)
Grammar
sǽ-streám, es; m.

Sea-stream,

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Ic his swíðran hand settan þence ðæt hé sǽstreámum syððan wealde ponam in mari manum ejus, et in fluminibns dexteram ejus, Ps. Th. 88, 22. Sicilia sǽstreámum in, Met. 1. 15. He iwende ouer sea*-*streames, Laym. 326.

brǽd

(n.)
Grammar
brǽd, e; f: brǽdo,brǽdu; indecl. f. [brád
broad; latus
]

broadlatusBREADTH, width, latitudelatitudo, amplitudo

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Ic on brǽdu [brǽde, Spl.] gange ambulabam in latitudine, Ps. Th. 118, 45. Drihten me gehýrde on heáre [ = heáhre, MS. hearr] brǽdu exaudivit me in latitudine Dominus, 117, 5.

ge-settan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-settan, p. -sette; pp. -seted, -set, -sett

To set, put, fix, confirm, restore, appoint, decree, settle, possess, occupy, place together, compose, make, compare, expose, allay

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Swá hwæt swá ic ðé gehét eal ic hit gesette whatsoever I have promised thee I will do it all, Blickl. Homl. 147, 8.

stów

(n.)
Grammar
stów, e ; f.
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The word remains either alone or in composition in place-names, e. g. Stow in Huntingdonshire, Stowe in Northamptonshire, Chepstow old ceáp-stów q. v. Stów locus, Wrt.