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weorc

Grammar
weorc, <b>. IV.</b>
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Rdr. 106, 23. IV b. add: — Ðsér wæs cyrice geworht and getimbred wundorlices worces. Bd. i. 7 ; Sch. 27, 7. Add Ne forstondeð ꝥ fæsten nówiht ꝥ mid gesynsciplice weorce bið besmyten, Ll. Th. ii. 440, 7.

wer-reáf

(n.)
Grammar
wer-reáf, es; n.
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Ordinary dress as distinguished from vestments Be preósta gyrlan . . . Nimon hí heora werreáf (uestimenta) tó Sancte Martinus mæssan and oferslipas tó Eástron and heora gescý on þǽm mónðe Nouembre, Chrd. 48, 27. Preósta werreáf (uestes) and hyra gescý

wíf-freónd

(n.)
Grammar
wíf-freónd, es; m.
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R. 15, 9

willan

Grammar
willan, <b>, I.</b>
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Hí wǽron onginnende ꝥ hí ꝥ dón woldon hoc facere conati sunt, 234, 6. in a clause translating a Latin clause Ðá eóde se cyning in ꝥ hé wolde geseón intravit rex ut videret, Mt. 22, 21.

wín

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D. 59, 16. v. eced-, reám-wín. Add

wirdan

Grammar
wirdan, <b>. II.</b>
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R. 18, 16. Add

wiþ-ceósan

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Rdr. 32, 10. Þæne gé wiþcuron quam reprobauerunt, An. Ox. 61, 27. Add

wód-dreám

(n.)
Grammar
wód-dreám, es; m.
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Rdr. 95, 5. Cf. (?) wóden-dreám

wódheortness

(n.)
Grammar
wódheortness, e; f.
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Madness, frenzy, rage Gemunaþ hú þá forwurdon þe mid wódheortnesse willan tó wǽpnedrhannum hǽmed sóhton, Verc. Först. 178

wræt-reád

(adj.)
Grammar
wræt-reád, wræte-reád; adj.
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Red Bind þá moran ymb ꝥ heáfod mid wrætereáde wrǽde, Lch. ii. 306, 18

wyn-bliss

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D. 2, 4 wyn, blis should be read, the passage is alliterative

wyrcan

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R. 7, 17. Hwílum wyrmas heortcoþe wyrceað, Lch. ii. 176, 13.

yfel-cwedolian

(v.)
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Rdr. 36, 22. Cf. wearg-cwedolian

yfel-libbende

(adj.)
Grammar
yfel-libbende, adj.
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Of evil life Ásolcenum and yfellybbendum ( male viventibus ) and gímeleásum, R. Ben. I. 118, 10. Cf. wel-libbende

yfel-sacian

(v.)
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H. 189, 24 for mé should probably be read má, the original Latin is: Ne tantas Deo inferret blasphemias. v. Archiv xci. 190) Gé gehýrað hú hé Gode yfelsacað, Nap. 88.

yfelsian

(v.)
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R. 27, 39. Add

ymb-húung

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Substitute for the citation Móises salde iúh ꝥ ymb-húungun (ymbhycgende, R. ) Moists dedit uobis circumcisionem, Jn. L. 7, 22

ymb-scrýdan

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Ðone man þe se cyning wile wurðian man sceal embscrýdan mid cynelican reáfe homo, quem rex honorare cupit-debet indui vestibus regiis, Hml. A. 99, 231. Seó cwén stent ymb-scrýd (emb-, v.l.) mid fáhnyssum (circumamicta varietate), 28, 109. Add

ypplen

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Rdr. 74, 6. Add

á-dón

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Rdr. 23, 7

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