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Anglo-Saxon

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byrht

(adj.)

bright, clear, lucid, loud ⬩ clarus, splendidus, clarisonus

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bright, clear, lucid, loud; clarus, splendidus, clarisonus, Beo. Th. 2402; B. 1199: Cd. 217; Th. 275, 15; Sat. 172

Linked entry: byrht-word

byris

(n.)
Grammar
byris, e; f?

A graving-iron, file ⬩ scalprum, scalpellum

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A graving-iron, file; scalprum, scalpellum Byris scalprum, Glos. Epnl. Reed. 162, 36: scalpellum, 162, 51

byrst

(n.)
Grammar
byrst, a bristle.
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Substitute: e; f., in passage from Lch. read swínen . . . bristle, and add Byrst seta, An. Ox. 51, 1. Brysti setes, Txts. 109, 1132. Manu, brystae (biriste, Hpt. 33, 244, 5) juba, setes porci et leonis cabalique, 110, 1182. Hí heora flán him on áfæstnodon

byrst

Grammar
byrst, loss.
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Add: injury Se byrst wyrð gemǽne, Wlfst. 159, 3. Fela byrsta (bersta), 157, 1: 128, 4. failure, v. teám-byrst; cf. berstan, 2. a cash; cf. berstan, Byrstum creporibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 83

byrce

Grammar
byrce, barking.

Similar entry: birce

byren

Similar entry: biren

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, tumba (An. Ox. 4346; Hpt. Gl. 507, 66) = byrigen
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or byrigels

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, (cf. byri-weard) a city.
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Dele e; f. acc. s. byrige. In the earlier MS. of the Chron. the form burg occurs in the passages; in the later the mutated form seems to have made its way into the nominative and accusative

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, a mulberry tree? In Ps. Spl. 77, 52 has the glosser read muros ? or moras ? (mora mansio, habitatio, Migne): in Lch. ii. 274, 17
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byrig eolonan might be a compound ?

byris

Similar entry: byres

byrla

Similar entry: birla

byrle

Similar entry: byrele

-byrdo

(suffix)

Similar entry: mis-byrdo

-byrst

(suffix)
Grammar
-byrst, -byrste
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-bristled, v. fiþer-byrst, fiþer-byrste, ge-byrst, ge-byrst

byrde

(adj.)
Grammar
byrde, sup. byrdest, def. se byrdesta; adj.

Born, well-born, noble, rich ⬩ natus, natu vel genere præstans, nobilis, opulentus

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Born, well-born, noble, rich; natus, natu vel genere præstans, nobilis, opulentus Se byrdesta sceall gyldan the richest must pay, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 36

byren

(adj.)
Grammar
byren, adj.

Belonging to a bear ⬩ ursinus

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Belonging to a bear; ursinus, Som. Ben. Lye

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, dat. of burh

to a city

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to a city; Ps. Th. 44, 13: 47, 11

byrhtm

(n.)
Grammar
byrhtm, es; m.

Noise, tumult ⬩ fragor, tumultus

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Noise, tumult; fragor, tumultus, Apstls. Kmbl. 42; Ap. 21

byrst

(v.)
Grammar
byrst, 3rd pers. pres. of berstan

bursts, breaks, fails

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bursts, breaks, fails. ;

byrst

(v.)
Grammar
byrst, 2nd and 3rd pers. pres. of beran

he byrþ bearest, he bears, produces ⬩ facit

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he byrþ bearest, he bears, produces; facit, Mt. Bos. 7, 17