cristalla
crystal ⬩ crystallus ⬩ the herb crystallium ⬩ flea-bane ⬩ flea-wort ⬩ crystallion ⬩ psyllion
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Lat. crystal; crystallus = κρύσταλλος Ðæt wæs hwítes bleós swá cristalla it was of a white colour like crystal Num. 11, 7. Cristallan crystallum Glos. Prudent. Recd. 140, 49. He his cristallum sendeþ mittit crystallum suum Ps.
ge-spillan
To destroy ⬩ dissipate
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Gespilleþ perdiderit, Lk. Skt. Lind. 17, 33. Alle gespilde omnes perdidit, 29: Rtl. 107, 29. Ðǽr wǽron manege mid micel unrihte gespilde there were many very wrongfully destroyed, Chr. 1124; Erl. 253, 16: Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 6, 19.
Fríge-niht
The night between Thursday and Friday
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Hig hyra clǽnnysse healdon ǽfre Sunnannihte and Frígenihte, Ll. Th. ii. 190, 19. Hé wæs sume Frígeniht in ciricean. Þá on þá þriddan tíde ðǽre nihte . . . Shrn. 113, 4. Ne mæssenihtum ne Frígenihtum, Wlfst. 305, 24
Linked entry: Fríge-ǽfen
fúl-lic
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Hit is fúllic þingc and Gode láð, þæt hí . . . befýlað hí selfe . . . þæt hí farað fram wífe tó wífe, eall swá stunte nýtenu dóð, Wlfst. 305, 7.
Linked entry: fúl-líce
þearl-wís
Severe, ⬩ strict
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Severe, strict Ierre ðæs ðearlwísan déman districti iram judicis, Past. l0; Swt. 63, 15. Beforan ðæm ðearlwísan déman apud districtim judicem, 16; Swt. 105, 10: Bd. 4, 25; S. 599, 36. Þearlwísere, gýmene districto regimine, Hpt. Gl. 486, 61.
bæc-þearm
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Wiþ leahtras ðæs bæcþearmes, Lch. i. 294, 15. Þá wambseócan men þrowiað on þám bæcþearme, ii. 232, 13. Þurh bæcþearm blód dropað, 278, 6. Gif hé on hire bæcþerm hǽme si in tergo ejus coiverit, Ll. Th. ii. 148, 7. Add
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ge-siht
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Blindum gesihðo caecis uisum, Lk. L. 4, 18. <b>I a.</b> the exercising of the faculty, a seeing :-- 'Hié God geseóð.' On þǽre gesihðe wesað ealle geleáffulle, Bl.
ealdor
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<b></b> a primitive, that from which something is derived :-- Rex cyning is frumcenned nama, and regalis cymð of þám and hæfð ealle þá ðing þe his ealdor hæfð, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 245, 4
leornian
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Hí leornedan láð weorc Gode didicerunt opera eorum, Ps. Th. 105, 26. Hé wolde þæt þá cnihtas cræft eornedon, Dan. 83. Leorna þás láre, Sch. 23: Fä. 61.
-ærn
An earth-place or house ⬩ the grave
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Hédd-ern a heeded-place, store-house, cellar, Lk. Bos. 12, 24
eallunga
Altogether, entirely, quite, indeed, at all, assuredly, utterly ⬩ prorsus, omnīno, profecto
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Eallunga Godes ríce on eów becymþ profecto pervēnit in vos regnum Dei, Lk. Bos. 11, 20
leác-tún
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Monn sende in léhtúne his homo misit its hortum suum, Lk. Skt. Lind. 13, 19
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leód-sceaða
a public enemy
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A harmer of men, a public enemy Láð leódsceaða [the serpent], Cd. 43; Th. 56, 24; Gen. 917. Æt ðam leódsceaðan hreddan to save from the devil, Exon, 11 b; Th. 17, 20; Cri. 273. Ic ðam leódscaðan [Grendel] hondleán forgeald, Beo. Th. 4193; B. 2093.
líc-þrowere
A leper
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Manega lícþroweras multi leprosi, Lk. Skt. 4, 27: H. R. 105, 2
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mór-sceaþa
A bandit ⬩ a robber who lakes refuge in the moors
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Lind. 15, 27: Lk. Skt. Lind. 23, 33
tíd-dæg
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Gif ðú wistest on ðysum ðínum dæge, Lk. Skt. 19, 42) Enoses sunu ealra nigon hund wintra hæfde, ðá hé woruld ofgeaf, and týne eác, ðá his tíddæge rím wæs gefylled when for his lifetime the number of years was completed, Cd. Th. 71, 4; Gen. 1165
bell-tíd
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A canonical hour marked by the ringing of a bell (v. preceding word, bel-hringes beácn, and Ll.
be-smitenes
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Ox. 3482. moral ꝥ hire bid besmitennys (pottutio), Ll. Th. ii. 156, 9. Bútan besmiten*-*nysse sine pollutions peccati, Hml. A. 112, 329. Bútan leahtra be*-*tmitenesse sine macula, R. Ben. 3, 18. Geclǽnsode fram deófolgilda besmitennysse, Hml.
bisceop-sunu
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Gif hit biscepsunu sié, Ll. Th. i. 150, 20 (cf. In baptismate et confirmatione unus potest esse pater, ii. 58, § 22). Hé (pope Leo) hiene (Alfred) him tó biscepsuna nam (cf.
Eáster-wucu
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Ǽr þám hálgan Eástron and ealle þá Eásterwucan ante sanctum Pascha et per totam hebdomadam paschalem, Ll. Th. ii. 190, 18. Add