birn-sweord
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A flaming sword God his byrnsweord getýhþ and þás world ealle þurhslyhþ, Bl. H. 109, 34
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ge-birhtan
To make bright ⬩ brighten ⬩ illuminate ⬩ illuminare
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To make bright, brighten, illuminate; illuminare Ðe ealle bing gebirht which brightens all things, Bt. 34, 8 ; Fox 144, 37. Ealle steorran weorþaþ onlíhte and gebirhte of ðære sunnan all stars are lighted and made bright by the sun, 34, 5 ; Fox 140,
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ge-bírigan
to taste
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to taste, Mt. Kmbl. Hat. 27, 34
on-birhtan
to illumine
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to illumine God hié onbyrhte mid andgite, Blickl. Homl. 105, 31
be-birigan
To bury
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To bury, Gen. 49, 29
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in-birigan
To taste
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To taste Inberigde gustavit, Jn. Skt. Rush. 2, 9
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ge-birhtan
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Take here ge-byrhtan and ge-brihtan in Dict. and add : to make bright -Geberhtes clarificabit, Jn. L. 16, 14. to become bright, to shine Ic áhyrde míne sunnan, and heó gebyrhteð ; þonne forbærned heó ealle þíne æceras, Wlfst. 260, 8. [Goth. ga-bairhtjan
ge-bírigan
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Dele, and see ge-birgan
bi-rinnan
to run as a liquid ⬩ To wet, bedew ⬩ fluere, perfundere, irrigare
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to run as a liquid, hence - To wet, bedew; fluere, perfundere, irrigare Ðá wearþ beám monig blódigum teárum birunnen, sæp wearþ to swáte then many a tree became bedewed with bloody tears, their sap became [turned to] blood, Exon. 25 a; Th. 72, 19-23;
Linked entry: be-irnan
BEORN
a man ⬩ vir ⬩ a prince ⬩ nobleman ⬩ chief ⬩ general ⬩ warrior ⬩ soldier ⬩ princeps ⬩ vir nobilis ⬩ dux ⬩ miles ⬩ rich ⬩ dives
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a man; vir Se beorn on waruþe scip gemétte the man found a ship on the strand Andr. Kmbl. 478; An. 239 : 1203; An. 602. Boétius wæs beorn bóca Boethius was a man skilled in books Bt. Met. Fox 1, 103; Met. 1, 52 : Exon. 83 a; Th. 313, 22; Mód. 4. Beornes
hrís
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Oð birnan hrís, C. D. v. 157, 16. ¶ Perhaps in a local name :-- Hé cóm tó Hrísbeorgan, vi. 184, 14: 197, 31. (Cf. Icel. Hrís-hóll as a local name). [v. N. E. D. rice.] See next word