worn
A swarm ⬩ band ⬩ Jlock ⬩ crowd ⬩ multitude ⬩ many ⬩ a great number ⬩ a great quantity ⬩ much ⬩ many
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Grammar worn, of inanimate objects, abstract or concrete, Grammar worn, alone, much, many things Hé worn gemunde, Beo. Th. 4235;B. Hé worn eall gespræc, 6180; B. 3094. Se gomola sægde eaforan worn, Exon. Th. 304, 7; Fä. 66.
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sceaþa
a criminal, wretch, miscreant, an enemy ⬩ fiend, devil ⬩ a spoiler, robber ⬩ a warrior
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Se sceaþa the thief (on the cross), Homl. Th. ii. 78, 18. 'Hwæt eart ðú ðe ðýn ansýn ys swylce ánes sceaþan.' Hé (the penitent thief ) hym andswarode: 'Sóð gé secgaþ ðæt ic sceaþa wæs and ealle yfelu on eorþan wyrcende,' Nicod. 32; Thw. 18, 19-22.
tó-slúpan
To slip apart or away ⬩ be relaxed ⬩ dissolved ⬩ to have the connection between several objects ⬩ that between the parts of the same object relaxed ⬩ to be dissipated, ⬩ destroyed ⬩ to be loosed ⬩ undone ⬩ to get relaxed, ⬩ to be relaxed, ⬩ get remiss ⬩ to get paralysed, ⬩ get powerless,
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.), Lchdm. i. 164, 20. to get relaxed, of material things Liþa tóslopene limbs relaxed in sleep. Hymn.
Linked entry: tó-swífan
ge-dihtan
to direct, order, give direction to a person ⬩ with acc. of direction, to give a direction :-- ⬩ to direct what is to be written or spoken, dictate a letter, speech, c. ⬩ to appoint, ordain ⬩ to order, manage, rule ⬩ of the divine ordering :-- ⬩ to compose a letter, verse, c. ⬩ o draw up regulations, laws, c. :-- ⬩ to construct, mate ⬩ to perform, do ⬩ to arrange ⬩ to deck, adorn
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Án scyp þe Godd sylf gedihte Nóe to wyrcaune, Wlfst. 10, 10. with acc. of direction, to give a direction :-- Hé gedihte þisne cwyde . . . 'Nimað þisne scyldigan . . . ' Þá tugon hí þone hálgan wer, swá hé him gediht hæfde, Hml.
gán
to go ⬩ walk ⬩ to move along, proceed ⬩ to take a specified course ⬩ to be guided ⬩ determined ⬩ to be habitually in a specified condition ⬩ to go ⬩ be pregnant ⬩ to pass, elapse ⬩ to happen, come to pass, take place ⬩ to pass, be current ⬩ to be accepted ⬩ to have a specified issue ⬩ turn out so and so ⬩ to move away, depart ⬩ to relinquish ⬩ to take one's way, proceed ⬩ go ⬩ move in a specified direction ⬩ go ⬩ and ⬩ to apply ⬩ betake oneself ⬩ to turn ⬩ betake oneself ⬩ go ⬩ to be carried, moved, impelled ⬩ to pass, be paid, be allotted ⬩ to be appropriated ⬩ to be one of the constituent elements ⬩ be amongst the conditions requisite ⬩ to amount, be equivalent ⬩ to attain, reach, extend ⬩ to come ⬩ to take precedence of. ⬩ to produce, came out with ⬩ to accompany, be with ⬩ to be uttered ⬩ to begin, start ⬩ to go to the closet, have an evacuation ⬩ to leave a permanent habitation ⬩ occupation ⬩ to proceed to the business of a court
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Tó þisum húsle tó gánne, Ll. Lbmn. 414, 2. by a substantive (with on) denoting function in which the subject is to be employed Gá seó mǽgð him on borh, Ll.
ge-staþelian
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Þæt sí þín nama in úrum ferhðlocan feste gestaðelod, 6, 5. Hió tó Gode hæfde freóndrǽdenne fæste gestaðelad, Jul. 107. to build Beóð him of þám wyrtum wíc gestaðelad in wuldres byrig, Ph. 474.
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folgere
aFOLLOWER ⬩ attendant ⬩ disciple ⬩ assecla ⬩ pĕdĭsĕquus ⬩ assectātor
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Ðý þriddan dæge þeóda Wealdend arás, and he feówertig daga folgeras síne rúnum arétte on the third day the Ruler of nations arose, and for forty days he comforted his followers [ = disciples] with words, Hy. 10, 35; Hy.
hreám
A cry ⬩ outcry ⬩ hue ⬩ crying ⬩ tumult ⬩ uproar
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Gif hwá þeóf geméte and hine his þances áweg lǽte búton hreáme ... and gif hwá hreám gehýre and hine forsitte if any one find a thief and voluntarily let him escape without hue and cry ... and if any one hear hue and cry and disregard it, L. C.
Linked entry: hrýman
hunig
Honey
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Swá þicce swá huniges tear as thick as honey that drops from the comb, L. M. 1, 31; Lchdm. ii. 74, 4: 2; Lchdm. ii. 28, 4.
Linked entry: teár-líc
langung
Longing ⬩ desire ⬩ weariness
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Langunga habban æfter ðám freóndum to think with grief of dead friends, Blickl. Homl. 131, 26
lícettan
To feign ⬩ pretend ⬩ simulate
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Nelle wé mid leásungum ðyllíc líccetan we will not feign such things with falsehoods, Homl. Skt. pref. 49. Monige sint ðe mon sceal wærlíce lícettan nonnulla prudenter dissimulanda sunt, Past. 21, 1; Swt. 151, 13.
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strengu
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Th. 101, 2; Gen. 1676. of things, strength, power Mec wolcna strengu byreþ. Exon. Th. 390, 4; Rä. 8, 5. vigour, firmness On strengo þeódscipes wlæc in disciplinae vigore tepidus, Bd. 1, 27; S. 492, 18. On færhæfdnesse strenge (strengeo, Cott.
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súþerne
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. ¶ The word is often used in reference to things coming to England from the south of Europe, plants or medicine :-- Genim súþerne cymen, Lchdm. ii. 184, 15. Ða súþernan finuglan, 142, 2. Súþerne popig, 212, 8.
Linked entry: abrotanum
undern
The third hour of the day ⬩ nine in the morning
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The third hour of the day, nine in the morning; in later English (v. infra) it is used of the sixth hour, a use it seems to have in undern-rest, q.v. Undern tertia, middæg sexta, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 11. Undern is dæges þridde tíd, Btwk. 214, 33.
wícnere
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Hé clipode him tó his yldestan geréfan ( servum seniorem domus suae ), ðe ealle his þing bewiste ... Ðá cwæð se wícnere (in v. 9 geréfa is again used, in v. 10 wícnere), Gen. 24, 5.
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æt-berstan
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M. 25, l. of things, to be lost to a person (dat. ) Hit feoh him ætbyrst, Hml. S. 12, 85 : Wlfst. 142, 7. Ne ætberst þám bydele his geswinces edleán, Hml. Th. ii. 534, 16
án-rǽdlíce
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Add: in reference to persons, unanimously, to things, uniformly Hý cwǽdon ealle ánrǽdlíce ꝥ hit riht wǽre, Ll. Th. ii. 336, 2. Wið þám þe hi ealle ánrǽdlíce tó him gecyrdon, Chr. 1014; P. 145, 9. Gesetnys ánrǽdlíce (uniformiter) gehealden, R. Ben.
cyst
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dele last two passages. substitute for 'with gen. pl. . . . æstimatio,' an excellent, precious thing; with gen. the best of anything, best of its class (cf. colloquial the pick of), and add Gif wé þám dǽdlican þás cyste (cf. ungerím feós, 231) geúðan
fore-spræc
advocacy ⬩ excuse ⬩ preliminary speech ⬩ a preface ⬩ prologue
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Take these together under fore-sprǽc, and add: speech on behalf of a person or thing. advocacy Hé ús gefreóð mid his foresprǽce from écum wítum advocatione sua nos ab aeternis suppliciis liberans, Past. 261, 10.
ge-cennan
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Gecened, 1. 13. to give forth a statement, declare, make known. absolute, to state the conditions of a case Ic gecende be ðám ðe ic cúðe; sé ðe bet cunne gecýðe his máre I have set forth the state of things as I knew it; let him that knows it better