Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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ge-drecenes

(n.)
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ge-dréme

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ge-drettan

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Add: Cf. (?) ofer-drettan

ge-drígan

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ge-dríhþ

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Substitute: Gravity or seemliness of behaviour; in pl. sober conduct

ge-dríman

(v.)
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ge-dríman, de
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To modulate, make harmonious Gedrýmyd modulata, Germ. 390, 35. Mid gedrémedum cwyde non dissona sententia, An. Ox. 4628

ge-dropa

(n.)
Grammar
ge-dropa, a kind of date (cf.
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drop as the name of a kind of plum) Gedropa nicolaum, An. Ox. 474

ge-drycnan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-drycnan, pp. ed
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To dry up, emaciate with disease Án wind cóm, and se wól mid þǽm winde. Þes moncwealm wæs. . . ofer ealle menn gelíce, þéh þe sume deáde wǽron, sume uneáþe gedrycnede aura corrumpens generali cunctos tabe confecit; ut etiam quos non egit in mortem turpi

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ge-drysnan

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Gidrysne ðis áttor extingue hoc virus, Rtl. 125. 35. Gidrysne ðá légo geciida extingue flammas litium, 164, 18. Synna légo gidrysne (extinguere), 64, 10. Sé gidrysnad extinguitur, 125, 29. Sune selenis gedrysned ł geendod filio proditionis extincto. Lk

ge-dúfan

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Gif hit ( the ordeal) sý wæter, ꝥ hé gedúfe óðre healfe elne on þám rápe, Ll. Th. i. 212, 2. fig. to plunge into sin, & c.

ge-dwǽscan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-dwǽscan, p. te. (i)
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to extinguish what is burning Þone wlacan smocan wáces flǽsces wætere gedwǽscan lini tepidos undis exstinguere fumos, Dóm. L. 52. to efface, do away with Swylas gedwǽscean to do away with swellings. Lch. i. 372, 2

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ge-dwínan

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Þonne deriende gedwínað heonone þysse worulde gefeán, gewitað mid ealle, þonne druncennes gedwíneð mid wistum noxia tunc hujus cessabunt gaudia saecli, ebrietas, epulae, Dóm. L. 231 233. Gedwán disparuit .i. evanuit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 141, 18 : 27, 34. Add

ge-dwolma

(n.)
Grammar
ge-dwolma, an ; m.
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Chaos Gedwolman chaos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 21, 63

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ge-dýfan

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ge-dyrfan

Similar entry: ge-dirfan

ge-dyrfsum

Similar entry: ge-deorfsum

ge-byrgen

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tinipa ?, Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 69

ge-byrman

Similar entry: ge-birman

ge-byrst

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-byrst, adj.
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Having bristles, bristly Gebyrstum setigero (apro), An. Ox. 23, 3

ge-byrþen

(n.)
Grammar
ge-byrþen, e; f.
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What is borne or born, a child Þurh þæt gebyrðor (gebyrðene, v.l. ) wé wurdon álýsede, Wlfst. 251, 14

Linked entry: byrþen

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