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hand-seten

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Ðis synt ðára witena handsetena and ðére hína ðe on ðǽre geþafunge wéron, C. D. v. 162, 30. Add

hand-sliht

Similar entry: and-sliht

hand-spor

(n.)
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Substitute hand-sporu, an ; f. A dagger of the hand, a long, sharp nail :-- Hǽþenes handsporu (húnsporu ?), egl unheóru, B. 986

hand-swyle

(n.)
Grammar
hand-swyle, es; m.
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A swelling in the hand Handswyle cidaricus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 46

hand-wyrm

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Hondwyrm, handyrp, honduyrp briensis, Txts. 45, 320. Hondwyrm ladascapiae, briensis, 73, 1193. Handwyrme uerme (minor exiguo sulcat qui corpora uerme. Ald. 272, 31), An. Ox. 23, 50. Hondweorm uerme, i. briensis, 25, 1. (The same passage is glossed in

han-grǽd

(n.)
Grammar
han-grǽd, es; m. Cock-crow: — Gif on [h]angrǽde hit þunrað si gallicantu tonilruaverit, Archiv, cxx. 50, 15.

hát-heort

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Hátheort furibundus, iratus, Hpt. Gl. 477, 29. Þǽre hátheortan furibundae, Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 45. Þǽm hátheortan funesto, 14. Háthort were viro furioso, Kent. Gl. 845. Add: —

hál-bǽre

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For ' Scint. . . . Lye' substitute: of things Gesceád hálbiére ratio salutaris, Scint. 206, 14. Síþfætes hǽlbǽres itineris salutaris, 206, 17. Him hí syllan andetnesse hálbǽrne lǽcedóm sibi dent confessionis salubre remedium, Angl. xiii. 394, 408. Hálbǽre

mynster-hám

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Wé hine cúðon in þám mynsterháme þe hé on wæs nos eum in hac ecclesiastica domo novimus Gr. D. 319, 24. Add

rǽg-hár

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Substitute: ræg-hár grey with lichen. Cf. ragu

sumer-hát

(n.)
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summer-heat Sumerhát cólað (cf. hát ácólað ardor frigescit, Angl. i. 285: ii. 374), Reim. 67

Linked entry: hát

sunn-hát

(adj.)
Grammar
sunn-hát, adj.
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Heated by the sun(?) Sunh[á]t soliflua, An. Ox. 56, 205

ælmes-hand

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weal-hát

Similar entry: weall-hát

weall-hát

(adj.)
Grammar
weall-hát, adj.

Boiling hot red-hot

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Boiling hot, red-hot Ácéle ðú wealhát ísen ðonne hit furþum sié of fýre átogen on wíne, Lchdm. ii. 256, 15

Linked entries: weal-hát weall

fýr-hát

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Fýrh[át] torrida, An. Ox. 56, 203. Add

hál-fæst

(adj.)
Grammar
hál-fæst, adj.

Salutaryqui potest sanare

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Salutary; qui potest sanare, Lye

hál-wende

(adj.)
Grammar
hál-wende, adj.

Conducive to health, salutary, healing, wholesome

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Conducive to health, salutary, healing, wholesome Ðes hálwenda hic saluber, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 18; Som. 9, 64. Ðín word is hálwende thy word is salutary, Ps. Th. 118, 103. Hálwoende ðín salutare tuum, Lk. Skt. Lind. 2, 30. Se middangeard wæs mannum hálwende

Linked entry: -wende

hál-wendlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
hál-wendlíc, adj.

Salutary, healthful

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Salutary, healthful Ðæs Hǽlendes tócyme wæs hálwendlíc ǽgðer ge mannum ge englum the Saviour's advent was salutary for both men and angels, Homl. Th. i. 214, 22: ii. 220, 20: 564, 7. Him se bisceop hálwendlíce geþeaht forþbrohte the bishop proposed to

ham-scyld

(n.)
Grammar
ham-scyld, [?]
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L. Eth. 32; Th. i. 12, 1, where see note. Leo in his work on Anglo-Saxon Names quotes a passage from Richthofen in which skeld occurs in the sense of fence; so that the crime referred to in the passage would be the breaking through the fence which surrounded