toft
a piece of ground, ⬩ messuage, ⬩ homestead ⬩ a place marked out for a house or building ⬩ a square piece of ground with walls but without roof ⬩ an enclosed home-field ⬩ campus ⬩ an elevated piece of ground ⬩ a field where a house or building once stood.
Entry preview:
A word apparently of Scandinavian origin, Icel. topt, tuft a piece of ground, messuage, homestead; a place marked out for a house or building; in the special later Icelandic sense a square piece of ground with walls but without roof: Dan. toft an enclosed
tácnung
Signification ⬩ an indication, sign, characteristic mark, symptom ⬩ an indication, evidence, proof ⬩ an indication of what is future, a presage, prognostic ⬩ figurative representation, an emblem ⬩ direction, ordering
Entry preview:
Hit nú is búton swylcum tácnungum ðæs yfeles ðe hit ǽr dyde Aetna nunc tantum innoxia specie ad praeteritorum fidem fumat, Ors. 2, 6; Swt. 90, 3. an indication, evidence, proof Wæs ðæs godcundan wundres sweotol tacnung ( indicium ), ðæt ðære fǽmnan líchoma
Linked entry: tǽcning
á-beódan
Entry preview:
H. 59, 12. (2 a) to announce the coming of a person :-- Hæfde hé seleweard áseted, sundornytte beheóld, eoton weard ábeád (the guard's special office was to give notice of Grendel's coming ), B. 668. in formulae of greeting, to bid farewell, (hǽl ábeódan
Linked entry: eoton-weard
an-sýn
a face ⬩ countenance ⬩ facies ⬩ vultus ⬩ a view ⬩ aspect ⬩ sight ⬩ form ⬩ figure ⬩ aspectus ⬩ conspectus ⬩ visus ⬩ visio ⬩ species ⬩ forma ⬩ figura ⬩ a thing to be looked upon ⬩ a sight ⬩ spectaculum ⬩ a view or sight producing desire or longing ⬩ a desire of anything ⬩ want or lack of anything ⬩ desiderium ⬩ defectus
Entry preview:
Se Hálega Gást astáh líchamlícre ansýne, swá án culfre descendit Spiritus Sanctus corporali specie, sicut columba, Lk. Bos. 3, 22: Cot. 74.
wægn
A waggon ⬩ wain ⬩ carriage ⬩ vehicle ⬩ Charles' wain
Entry preview:
Ðæt hig nymon wǽnas (plaustra), Gen. 45, 19, 27. with special reference to what is carried, in the phrase wægnes, wægna gang, the going to fetch wood, v.
Linked entries: wægen waegne-þíxl wǽn
úþ-wita
a philosopher ⬩ scribe ⬩ geo metrician
Entry preview:
A person distinguished for wisdom or learning in general or in a special branch, a philosopher, scribe, geo metrician, etc. Se gomola, eald úðwita (cf. fród fæder módsnottor 300, 4; Fä. 1), Exon. Th. 304, 6; Fä. 66.
eáca
Entry preview:
</b> in various special applications, increase of goods Wylspring on húse his gesihð beón geopenad eácan oððe blisse getácnað, Lch. iii. 204, 16. a reinforcement to an army Him cóm micel eáca tó ǽgþer ge of Eást-Englum ge of Norbhymbrum, Chr.
leornian
Entry preview:
Sé þe nǽfre ne leornde specan qui numquam didicit loqui, Scint. 80, 17. <b>I a</b>. to learn a book, read with the intention of gaining knowledge :-- Hú ne sǽde ic þé ǽr þæt þu hyt scealt sécan on þǽre béc þe wit þá ymbsprǽcon ?
CEORL
CHURL, countryman, husbandman ⬩ homo liber, rusticus, colonus ⬩ a man, husband ⬩ vir, maritus ⬩ a free man
Entry preview:
. ky-cenan ], bell-hús and burh-geat-setl, and sunder-note on cynges healle, ðonne wæs he ðonon-forþ þegen-rihtes weorþe if a free man thrived, so that he had fully five hides of his own land, church and kitchen, bell-house and a city-gate-seat, and special
Linked entry: ciorl
Etna
Etna, the volcano of Sicily
Entry preview:
Though Alfred has given the impression of his age, respecting volcanoes, Orosius only speaks thus of Etna, — Ætna ipsa, quæ tunc cum excĭdio urbium atque agrōrum crebris eruptiōnibus æstuābat, nunc tantum innoxia spĕcie ad prætĕrĭtōrum fidem fūmat, Hav
FRIÞ
Peace ⬩ freedom from molestation ⬩ security guaranteed by law to those under special protection ⬩ agreement ⬩ truce ⬩ league ⬩ pax ⬩ tūtēla ⬩ refŭgium
Entry preview:
Peace, freedom from molestation, security guaranteed by law to those under special protection, e. g. that of the Church, Similar entries v. cyric-friþ. See Stubbs' Const.
lícettan
Entry preview:
(l a) of specen :-- Mid þý hé geswiperum múðe lícetende ǽrende wrehte cum simulatam legationem ore astuto uolueret, Bd. 2, 9 ; Sch. 146, 25. to carry favour with (?)
ge-férscipe
Entry preview:
M. 29, 9. in special senses, a society of ecclesiastics Þeáh feáwa witena on þám geférscipe beón, R. Ben. 116, 19. Hádbót. . . án dǽl þám biscope, óðer þám wíbede and þridde geférscipe. Ll.
gingra
Entry preview:
Th. i. 246, 18. in special senses. a vassal, follower, servant of a prince (human or superhuman) [cf. liberata ab pastu regis et principis, uel iuniorum eorum, C. D. ii. 25, 7] Hwane manaþ God máran gafoles þonne þone biscop?
under-standan
to understand ⬩ have insight into ⬩ to understand ⬩ perceive ⬩ know certainly ⬩ to understand in such and such a sense ⬩ to conceive of ⬩ consider ⬩ to accept as correct ⬩ to observe ⬩ notice ⬩ consider
Entry preview:
Ðæt wé magon understandan ða þing ðe ðú specst ut possimus intelligere quae loqueris, Coll. Monast. Th. 32, 15.
Linked entry: for-standan
wacian
To watch ⬩ wake ⬩ to remain awake ⬩ not to sleep ⬩ to be freed from obstruction ⬩ to open ⬩ to be alert ⬩ to watch ⬩ be on the watch ⬩ be on guard ⬩ to watch ⬩ be on the watch to injure
Entry preview:
Homl. 19, 22. to keep one's self awake or alert because there is special need of attention, to watch, be on the watch, be on guard Ic ðé tó wacie (waecio, Ps. Surt.) ad te vigilo, Ps. Th. 62, 1.
god
Entry preview:
Hig gesáwon Israhéla God, Ex. 24, 10. in special forms of speech. where a strong wish is expressed God him geunne ꝥ . . ., Chr. 959; P. 115, 14. God eów gehealde, Ll. Lbmn. 486, 14.
leásung
fiction ⬩ falsehood ⬩ falseness ⬩ hypocrisy ⬩ deception ⬩ deceitfulness ⬩ artice
Entry preview:
Ðú fordést ða ðe symle leásinga specaþ thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing [A.V.], Ps. Th. 5, 5. Onscúna ðú á leásunga, L. Ælf. 44; Th. i. 54, 14: Homl. Th. ii. 482, 25.
Linked entry: bisleásung
ge-þanc
Entry preview:
Gif hé ǽr on ðaes ofermódan engles wísan innan his geðance (ingeðonce, v. l.) of Godes gesiehðe ne áfeólle nisi more suferbientis angeli a con*-*spectu conditoris príus intus aversione mentis caderet, Past. 359, 1. Gehwá on geþance healde, Ll.
in-tó
Entry preview:
Hí unrǽd rǽddon intó ðissum earde, 1052 ; P. 182, 2. with special force. into the possession of Æfter hiera dæge eft intó ðǽre hálgan stówe, C. D. iii. 50, 5. Gá intó Glæstingabyrig, 128, 7. Hé gesealde twá gegrynd intó Níwan mynstre, 29.