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cweðs ðú lá

(v.; int.; pronoun.)
Grammar
cweðs ðú lá, = cwýst ðú'lá

O! sayest thou? numquid?

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O! sayest thou? numquid? Ps. Lamb. 7, 12

-lómlíce

(adv.; suffix)
Grammar
-lómlíce, -lómlician, -lómrǽd, -lómrǽde. v. ge-lomlíce, &amp; c. : <b>lopystre.</b>
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ge-swicu

(n.)
Grammar
ge-swicu, (?i-stem, fem., cf. Sievers&#39; Grammatik, 268),
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e;f. Cessation Witun þá ðe ðyllicne gylt þurhteóð, and náne geswice dón nell[að], Hml. A. 148, 123 note. v. ge-swíc

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be-tweohn

(prep.; adv.)

Between ⬩ among

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Grammar be-tweohn, -twihn (&lt;-twíhn), -tweón. prep. Between, among: — Bituichn (-tuín) ældrum inter primores, Txts. 70, 546. Bituihn, 77, 1310. Hé gesibbode þá cyningas betweohn (-twyh, v. l.) him pacatis alterutrum regibus, Bd. 4, 21; Sch. 453

seár

(adj.)
Grammar
seár, The MS. reading at Lch. i. 384, 14 may be retained. v. Siever&#39;s Grammar, &sect; 35, Anm, 2.

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dráf

(n.)
Grammar
dráf, <b>. I.</b> driving. Take here Hml. Th. i. 502, 10 in Dict., and Bl. H. 199, 7. &para; the phrase dráfe drífan, C.D. iii. 450, 33, seems to refer to the transport of the lord&#39;s goods by vehicle which the geneát had to &#39;drive&#39;. Cf. drífan;
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III. and see lád. a drove [v. N.E.D. drove; I 3.] a road Of ðám hlince andlang dráfæ, C.D. v. 217, 6

ge-stælan

Grammar
ge-stælan, l. -stǽlan, dele first passage, in last for leágung l. leásung, and add: to bring home to a person a charge, liability, &amp;c., to prove something to have been committed by, or
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to be due from, a person Gif mon on folces gemóte cyninges geréfan geyppe eofot (þeófðe, v.l.), and his eft geswícan wille, gestǽle on ryhtran hand ( let him make the charge good upon one who more justly may be charged; pertrahat hoc ad rectiorem manum

þriwa

(num.; adv.)
Grammar
þriwa, þrywa, þreowa, þriowa, þriuwa, þriga, þrige, þría; adv.

Thrice ⬩ three times

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Thrice, three times Þriwa (þreowa) ter, Ælfc. Gr. 49; Zup. 285, 14: 38; Zup. 232, 7: Exon. Th. 207, 20; Ph. 144. Þriwa on gére tribus vicibus per singulos annos, Ex. 23, 14: ter in anno, 17. Ne sint ðæt þreó godas þriwa genemned, ac is án God, Hy. 10

Linked entries: þría þriga

prím

(n.)
Grammar
prím, prime, the first hour, six o&#39;clock; also the service held at that hour, v. prím-sang
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Prím prima, undern tertia, middæg sexta, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 10-12. Onginnaþ heáfudcwido tó prím ( ad primam ), Rtl. 166, 17. Gibedd tó prím, 171, 27. On ðysum tídum wé herien úrne scyppend ... on dægréd, on prím, on undem, on middæg, on nón, on ǽfen, on

háw

(n.; suffix)
Grammar
háw, Kemble says, &#39; In all probability, a look out, or prospect&#39;; Middendorff compares the word with -hau in German place-names, and takes it to mean a clearing, a place where trees are cut down (cf. heáwan). But perhaps in the one passage where the word occurs
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hlawe should be read Haec sunt supradictarum uocabula terrarum, aet Uuineshauue (cf. scuccanhlau, 196, 1), C. D. i. 195, 30

niht-feorm

(n.)
Grammar
niht-feorm, the amount of provisions necessary for one night, entertainment due to the king. v. feorm; <b>I b.</b> &para;

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wár

(n.)
Grammar
wár, I. sea-weed, waur (v. E. D. S. Pub. Plant Names, in which other forms are given, ware, woare, woore, ore : see also Jamieson&#39;s Dict.
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ware) Waar, uaar, uár alga, Txts. 39, 120. Wár. Wrt. Voc. ii. 6, 46: i. 285, 12. sand, strand. Cf. sondhyllas alga, Txts. 39, 125 Streámas weorpaþ on stealc hleoþa stáne and sande, wáre ( or under I ?) and wǽge, Exon. Th. 382, 8; Rä. 3, 8. Wára sablonum

Linked entries: wároþ sǽ-wár waar

glengista

Grammar
glengista, The translator seems to have misunderstood the passage to mean: &#39;In order that thy diligence and genius may add somewhat to the knowledge of these things of mine.&#39; In some way ingenium is represented by glengista. Could this word be the superlative of an adjective, glenge well-ordered, and the passage be completed ?þín] glengista [orþanc?]
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; cf. glengan; III

Mæð-hild

(n.)
Grammar
Mæð-hild, If this be a woman&#39;s name, it could not be that which later becomes Matilda, cf. Mathild, Chr. 1067; P. 202, 28: Mahtild, 1083; P. 215, 22. O.H.Ger. Maht-hilt.

feóndulf

(n.)
Grammar
feóndulf, feónd-ulf (ulf &lt; wulf; cf. ulf in proper names, e. g. Swíð-ulf, Beorht-ulf, Eád-ulf, Beorn-ulf, Ecg-ulf, Chr. 897; P. 90, 4-9, and see Kl. Nom. Stam. p. 17), es; m.

A felon ⬩ villain

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A felon, villain Feóndulf furcifer, furca dignus, Germ. 396, 317. Substitute:

sǽd-berende

(adj.)
Grammar
sǽd-berende, In a legend of the Holy Cross Seth is represented as bringing seeds from Paradise, whither he had been sent by Adam: Seth, ita edoctus ab angelo cum uellet discedere, dedit ei angelus tria grana pomi illius, de quo manducauerat pater eius dicens ei: 'Infra triduum cum ad patrem tuum redieris ipse exspirabit. Haec tria grana infra eius linguam pones, &amp;c.' If the poet of the Genesis knew such a legend it might have suggested the epithet he applied to Seth. v. Mod. Lang. Rev. vi. 200. See, too, C. M. 1365
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His leue Seth toke of cherubyn, and þre curnels he ȝaf to hym whiche of ꝥ tre he nam ꝥ his fadir eet of Adam

endleofan

(n.; num.; adj.)
Grammar
endleofan, endlufon, endlyfun, inflected cases of endleof, endluf, endlyf [end = an one; unus; leof=lif, from lífan to leave; relinquĕre, Grm. ii. 947, or end = án one; lif ten; dĕcem; existing in Teutonic languages only in the words for 11 and 12; A. Sax. end-lif and twé-lf = twá-lf= twá-lif, Grm. Gsch. &sect;246] ELEVEN ; undĕcim = ἕνδεκα
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Ósréd ðæt rice hæfde endleofan wintra Osred held the kingdom for eleven years, Bd. 5, 18; S. 635, 20. Mid híra endlufon sunum cum undecim filiis, Gen. 32, 22. Endleofan steorran eleven stars, Gen. 37, 9: Chr. 71; Th. 13, 3, col. 3

Linked entries: ændlefen ellefne

sǽt

(n.)
Grammar
sǽt, To judge by the former of the two passages given here the word in the latter of them should mean a place of concealment for the hunter where he lies in wait for the game which is driven towards him. Such driving of game is described by the hunter in Ælfric&#39;s Colloquy, Th. An. 21, 13-22, 18.
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Sǽte haldan would mean to keep the game from avoiding the ambush into which it was being driven. Cf. ge-sǽte

lim-rǽden

(n.)
Grammar
lim-rǽden, The passage where this word is given as a gloss to chlamide is: Pro chlamide, quam angelicae puritatis liniamento . &#39;. . adsciscebat, Ald. 35, 10. In Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 47, which refers to the same passage, liniamento is glossed by lim-gelecg : it is probable, then, that lim-rǽden is a gloss to liniamento rather than to chlamide, and has the same meaning as lim-gelecg (q. v.

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