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fóster-bearn

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For Cot. 9 substitute Fóstorbearn (fóstar-, fóstri-barn, v.ll.) alumnae, Txts. 39, 131. Fósterbearn, Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 62: 5. 45

fóster-cild

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Add: lit. a foster-child Fóstorcild alumnum, seruum, Germ. 391, 48. Ic eom untýmende; nim míne þínene tó þínum bedde, þæt ic húru underfó sum fóstercild of hyre, Gen. 16, 2. Hér synd þá cnihtas ... þíne fóstercyld, Hml. S. 2, 243. fig. of a disciple,

fóster-módor

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Add Þeós fóstormódor haec nutrix, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 71, 3. lit. His fóstormóder ( nutrix ) áne wæs him fylgende, for þon þe heó hine swýðe geornlíce lufode, Gr. D. 96, 20: 152, 28. Fóstermóder, Hml. A. 171, 49. fig. Sió fóstermódur ǽlces cræftes virtutum

fóster-nóþ

(n.)
Grammar
fóster-nóþ, m. ? l. fósternoþ; m.
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and add: food, provisions Fósternoð pulmentum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 13. Wæs neódþearf ꝥ heom wǽre bútan yldinge gegearwod se mete and fóstornoð (-nað, v.l.) þǽre dæghwámlican andleofne necesse erat ut quotidiani sumtus laborantibus sine dilatione praeberentur

fóster-bearn

(n.)
Grammar
fóster-bearn, féster-bearn, es; n.

A FOSTER-BEARN or childălumnus

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A FOSTER-BEARN or child; ălumnus, Cot. 9

Linked entry: féster-bearn

fóster-cild

(n.)
Grammar
fóster-cild, es; n.

A FOSTER-CHILDălumnus

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A FOSTER-CHILD; ălumnus. Wrt. Voc. 72, 39

fóster-ling

(n.)

a FOSTERLINGfoster-child

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a FOSTERLING, foster-child, Som. Ben. Lye

fóster-sweostor

(n.)
Grammar
fóster-sweostor, f.

A FOSTER-SISTERcollactānea

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A FOSTER-SISTER; collactānea. Som. Ben. Lye

in-fóster

(n.)
Grammar
in-fóster, es; n.

Rearingbreeding

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Rearing, breeding Hit mín ágen ǽht is and mín infóster it is my own property and my rearing, L. O. 3 ; Th. i. 180, 7

Linked entry: fóster

fóster-bróþor

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Fósterbróðor alumnus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 8, 20. Add

Linked entry: bróþor

fóster-fæder

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Add: of human beings, lit.: Fósterfæder altor, i. nutritor (Alexander, who brought up Athanasius), An. Ox. 2841: Wrt. Voc. ii. 80, 62: 92, 28. Fóstorfæder, 100, 7. Jóseph, Crístes fósterfæder, Hml. Th. i. 30, 6: 42, 4. Fóstorfæder, 148, 34. Cóm hire

fóster-land

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land assigned for the support of monks (ad cibum monachorum) Ich Æðelstán ... grantye ... .xxx. hýden on Sidemyntone tó fósterland, and tó at Chelmyntone, and six at Hylfelde, C.D. v. 236, 10.] Add: [

fóster-leán

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in-fóster

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Add: breeding on one's own farm, rearing from one's own stock

cild-fostre

(n.)
Grammar
cild-fostre, -festre, an; f.

A child-fosterer, nursenutrix

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A child-fosterer, nurse; nutrix Mót he habban mid him his cildfostran [-festran, Roff.] debet habere secum nutricem infantis sui, L. In. 64; Wilk. 25, 4

fóst-raþ

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For Som. Ben. Lye substitute: Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 41

fóstrian

(v.)
Grammar
fóstrian, p. ode; pp. od

To FOSTERnourishălĕrenutrīre

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To FOSTER, nourish; ălĕre, nutrīre, Som. Ben. Lye

Linked entry: féstrian

-noþ

(suffix)
Grammar
-noþ, v. droht-, fisc-, fód-, fóddor-, fóstor-, fugel-, hæft-, hleó-, hunt, sǽd-, wig-noþ (-naþ).

Linked entry: -naþ

timber

(n.)
Grammar
timber, es; n.

material for constructing a house, ship, etc.,timbermaterial of which anything is formeda structure,building,edificethe building of a house, ship, etc.

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Ǽrest man ásmeáþ ðæs húses stede, and eác man ðæt timber beheáwþ, Anglia viii. 324, 8: Lchdm. iii. 180, 8. material of which anything is formed Sió lifer is blódes timber and blodes hús and fóstor, Lchdm. ii. 198, 2: 160, 13. a structure, building, edifice

Linked entry: and-timber

be-sárgian

(v.)
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Benedictus besárgode his fóstor-méder sárnysse, Hml. Th. ii. 154, 18. þæt hé óðres mannes ungelimp besárgige, i. 584, 6. Wé sceolon his yfel besárgian, 274, II. with acc. and infin.

Linked entry: sárgian