land-leód
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Næs ná ꝥ án ꝥ seó stów wæs ungewunelic, ac eác swilce uncúð þám landleódum him selfum, Hml. S. 23 b, 107. Landleóde indigenas An. Ox. 17, 18
smeágan
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Ymb ðyllic is tó geðencenne and tó smeáganne cui considerandum est, 59, 21. add Ic smeáde mínre dohter módes willan, Ap. Th. 23, 3. Smeágaþ mistlicnesse rimamini uarietates, An. Ox. 1080.
gaderung
a joining, union ⬩ an assembly ⬩ gathering ⬩ gathering ⬩ a gathering of words, text
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Add: a joining, union. v. gaderian; Geaðrung copulam (the bond of matrimony), Rtl. 109, 19. an assembly. v. gaderian; II Cwæð hé beforan ealre þáre gaderunge: 'Gé Tharsysce ceastergewaran . . .,' Ap. Th. 26, 2.
ge-ánlǽcan
to unite ⬩ unite ⬩ To join together ⬩ to get together, collect, assemble
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Add: to unite one person to another, unite persons as associates Feówer þeóda hine underféngon tó hláforde, Peohtas and Bryttas, Scottas and Angli, swá swá God hí geánlǽhte tó ðám, Hml. S. 26, 107.
hwít
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Gif hit festendæg sié selle mon uuége cǽsa and fisces and butran and ægera ðæt mon begeotan mæge, C. D. i. 293, 10
ofer-ǽt
over-eating, gluttony, excess in eating ⬩ rioting, feasting, an entertainment where excessive eating takes place ⬩ comessationes ⬩ crapula, commessatio.
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Ant. i. 131, 32: O. L. Ger. ovar-át: O. H. Ger. ubar-ázi, -ázzi; f. crapula, commessatio. ]
folc-leásung
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uttering false and slanderous statements such as are prejudicial to the public welfare.
ge-cneordnes
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Ox. 3224. (4 a) a study, a subject studied, an art practised :-- Mé áwehton þá gecneordnessa þe ic girstandæg gehýrde. Ap. Th. 19, 6. Bóclicum láreówdómum, gecneordnessum liberalibus studiis, i. exercitiis, An. Ox. 3100
seofon
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S. 23, 137. (2 a) where age is marked :-- Wæs án twelf geára, óþer nigan geára, and se þridda seofan geára, Shrn. 58, 12. forming part of an ordinal On ðǽm siofan-and-hundsiofantiogoðan psalme, Past. 465, 4. Se seofan-and-hundeahtatigeða, R.
fore
in front ⬩ at the head ⬩ before
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.), in front, at the head, as chief Fore tó yrnenne prodeundi, Scint. 224, 7. Eorðcyningas þe folcum hér fore wísien kings that, placed at their head, direct the peoples, Ps. Th. 148, 11. temporal, before Fore ic cueð ł ǽr ic sægde praedixi, Mt.
niþer-líc
low ⬩ low ⬩ humble ⬩ inferior
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low (of position) Án þeósterful dene swíðe niþerlíc, Homl. Th. ii. 338, 5. Heortan niþerlícan cordis ima, Ps. Surt. ii. p. 202, 5. On nyþerlícum eorþan in inferioribus terrae, Ps. Lamb. 62, 10. Tó nyþerlícum ad inferos, Cant. An. 6.
gita
Yet ⬩ still
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Reord wæs ðá gieta eorþbúendum án gemǽne there was as yet one speech common to dwellers on earth, 79: Th. 98, 25; Gen. 1635. Hiora nǽnig næs ðá gieta as yet none of them existed, Bt. Met. Fox 8, 24; Met. 8, 12
un-mǽne
free from evil ⬩ pure ⬩ without perjury ⬩ free from ⬩ exempt from ⬩ not sharing in
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Fram ealre synne unmǽne ab omni peccato inmunes, Scint. 67, 20. of an oath, without perjury Se áþ is clǽne and unmǽne, L.
Linked entry: mǽne
un-pleólíc
Not dangerous ⬩ without risk
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Not dangerous, without risk, as regards physical hurt Unpleólícre hit bið on lytlum scipe and on lytlum wætere, ðonne on miclum scipe and on miclum wætere, Prov.
fore-spreca
an advocate ⬩ defender ⬩ a sponsor
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Add: an advocate, defender For[e]sprec[a] patronus, An. Ox. 56, 335. Forspeca orator, Germ. 400, 548. Hé bæd mé ðæt ic him wǽre forespeca, Cht. Th. 169, 26. Þá nyste Paulus ðá gástlican getácnunge ðǽre ǽ, and wæs forðí hyre forespreca, Hml.
ge-mæstan
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Mid þyssere fǽtnysse wolde se sealmwyrhta beón gemæst, ðá dá hé cwæð, 'Beó mín sawul gefylled swá swá mid rysle and ungele,' Hml. Th. i. 522, 6-35. Tó bulluce gemæstum ad uitulum saginatum, Séint. 169, 15. Gemæstra swína, An. Ox. 23, 27
lippa
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Add: [Weler is generally used where modern English would have lip, e. g. in Ps. 51, 15 (quoted at R. Ben. 69, 9) labia is rendered by weleras in R. Ben. 62, 10, and in all the versions of the Psalter.]
ge-crístnian
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The rite was introductory, and preceded, sometimes by years, that of baptism. The person who had undergone the rite became a Catechumen], and add Se bisceop hí gecrístnode, and tǽhte hí þá gerýna þæs hálgan geleáfan, and gefullode hí, Hml.
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hlóþ
spoil, ⬩ booty ⬩ a band, ⬩ troop, ⬩ company, ⬩ gang, ⬩ crew, ⬩ body of robbers ⬩ the crime of taking part in the action of a hlóþ
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Feónda hlóþ a fiendish crew, Exon. 46 a; Th. 157, 5; Gú. 887.
Linked entries: hlóþ-bót hlóþ-sliht
han-créd
Cock-crowing, cock-crow, a division of the night ⬩ gallicinium, galli cantus
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Hér wæs se móna áþístrod betwux hancréd and dagunge in this year the moon was eclipsed between cock-crow and dawn, Chr. 795; Erl. 59, 25. On ǽfen ðe on midre nihte ðe on hancréde ðe on morgen sero, an media nocte, an galli cantu an mane, Mk.
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