fird-strǽt
high road
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A military road, high road Úp tó cynges ferd-strǽte, C. D. iii. 174, 8. Andlang bróces on ðá fyrdstrǽt, 443, 5
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stród
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Marshy land (overgrown with brushwood or trees?, v. Philol. Trans. 1895-8, p. 537), and add Haec sunt prata que ad illam terram pertinent .i. et bioccan leá and an súðhealfe stródes an cyninges médum ðá ðe ðǽrtó belimpað, C. D. B. ii. 202, 13
streng
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streng anquina (ar- ? ), Wrt. Voc. i. 35, 26. Strǽla storm strengum gebǽded, Beo. Th. 6226; B. 3117. in a ship, part of the rigging; also a cable. v. ancer-streng and cf.
streám
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Efne swilce seó eá on hyre næfde nǽnne wæteres streám ac si ille fluminis alveus aquam minime kaberet, Gr. D. 15, 31. Hé gelóme út on þone striém (streám, v. l. ) eóde, Bd. 5, 12; Sch. 632, 18. v. gyte-, mid-, mylen-streám. Add
streón
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Hiss stren shollde ben todrifenn, 16396. Þat holy streon, O.E. Misc. 153, 217. Of God, nat of the streen of which they been engendered, Chauc. Cl. T. 157. Spenser uses the form strene in this sense.] power (?)
Erming-strǽt
Erming-street. One of the four great Roman roads in Britain
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Erming-street. One of the four great Roman roads in Britain, Som. Lye
stæþ
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Of stæðe on óðer from one bank of the boundary stream to the other, L. O. D. 1; Th. i. 352, 4, 11: 2; Th. i. 354, 3: 6; Th. i. 354, 25. Sume cuce tó ðam stæðe cómon, and ða man sóna ofslóh æt ðære eá múðan, Chr. 794; Erl. 59, 23: Byrht.
streáw
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Sé ðe getimbrað ofer ðám grundwealle treówa, oððe streáw . . . Ðurh ðá treówu and ðám streáwe sind getácnode leóhtlice synna, Hml. Th. ii. 590, 9-14. Lytle stréwu leuiores paleas, Chrd. 74, 16. v. bed-, healm-streáw. Add
stræc
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Add Hé bið him swá mihtleás on his módes strece, ꝥ hé his underþeóddan egesian ne dearr, O. E. Hml. i. 301, 6. Add Micel strec bið þæt mennisce menn mid eádmódum geearnungum ðá heofenlican myrhðe begytan, Hml. Th. i. 360, 26
streám
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A stream, current, flowing water; in the plural used of the sea in poetry Streám vel wǽto irriguum, Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 9. Streám fluens, ii. 149, 68: alveus, i. 54, 26. Streám, streúm rema, reuma, Txts. 92, 855.
stǽr
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A history; historia Tó eallum ðe ðis ylce stǽr becyme úres cynnes tó rǽdanne omnes ad quos haec eadem historia pervenire poterit nostrae nationis legentes, Bd. pref.; S. 472, 33. Ðæt getæl ðæs hálgan stǽres and spelles ... Song hé eall ðæt stǽr Genesis
strǽd
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a pace, stride Míle straedena mille passus, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 5, 41
streng
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strength
streón
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a couch
stric
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Plague(?) Eác sceal áspringan wíde and síde . . . stric and steorfa and fela ungelimpa, Wulfst. 86, 12. Stric and steorfa, orfcwealm and uncoðu, 159, 10. Gif hit geweorðe ðæt folce mislimpe þurh stric oððe steorfan, þurh unwæstm oððe unweder, L. I. P
strið
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struggle, fight, contest Strange geneátas ða ne willaþ mé æt ðam stríðe geswícan, Cd. Th. 19, i; Gen. 284. contention, dispute, strife of words Hwæt scal ðé swá láðlíc stríð wið ðínes hearran bodan? 41, 28; Gen. 663. Ðone láðan stríð, yfel and-wyrde