láþettan
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Ongunnon hí hine onscunigean and láðettan mid máran orwyrðum fracoðlicra worda majoribus hunc verborum contumeliis detestari coeperunt Gr. D. 250, 28. to make hateful, render odious
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leóht-brǽdness
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Hý hý georne bewerian wið leóhtbrǽdnesse ídelra worda and unnyttra gebǽra subtrahat corpori suo de loquacitate, de scurrilitate, R. Ben. 76, 19.
tó-slítan
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</b> to make a wound by biting :-- On þá wunda þe se wurm tóslát, Hml.
of-scotian
to shoot, wound or kill with an arrow, spear, etc.
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to shoot, wound or kill with an arrow, spear, etc. Hé hét hine mid strǽlum ofscotian, ðæt hé wæs ðara swá full swá igl biþ byrsta, Shrn. 55, 8.
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hláford-swice
Treachery to a lord, ⬩ treason
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Treachery to a lord, treason Ealra mǽst hláfordswice se biþ on worulde ðæt man his hláfordes sáwle beswíce and full mycel hláfordswice eác biþ ðæt man his hláford of lífe forrǽde oððe of lande lifigendne drífe the greatest treachery in the world against
spéd
Speed ⬩ success ⬩ means ⬩ speed ⬩ quickness ⬩ speedily ⬩ quickly ⬩ speed ⬩ success ⬩ prosperous issue ⬩ means ⬩ substance ⬩ abundance ⬩ wealth ⬩ power ⬩ faculty ⬩ opportunity ⬩ means of doing anything ⬩ progeny ⬩ celeritas, successus, provectus, prosperitas, substantia
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Heó (Sarah) ne gelýfde ðæt ðære sprǽce spéd folgode she did not believe that any happy result would follow those words, did not believe that she should have a son, Cd. Th. 144, 4; Gen. 2384.
ge-mynd
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those words, the heretics kept in mind single ones, Hml.
Eást
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Rufinus wolde habban þone anwold þǽr eást, and Stileca wolde sellan his suna þisne hér west, 6, 37; S. 296, 6. Eást mid Crécum, Met. 30, 1. Secga sitlu súð, eást, and west, 9, 42: 14, 7. v. norþ-, súþ-eást; cf. west; adv
HWÍL
A WHILE
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Hwíle mid weorce hwíle mid worde hwíle mid geþohte at one time with deed, at another with word, at another with thought, Hy. 3, 44-5; Hy. Grn. ii. 282, 44-5. Ðæs ungeendodan lífes hwila æternitatis infinita spatia, Bt. 18, 3; Fox 66, 5
sunu
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Word hiere suna, Elen. Kmbl. 443; El. 222: Exon. Th. 6, 34; Cri. 94. Heó ne gehýrde ná hyre leófan sunu stemne ( but suna ll. 20, 24), Wulfst. 152, 16. Gif his sunu and his sunu sunu geþeóþ, L. Wg. 11; Th. i. 188, 10.
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á-mirran
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Benedictus wolde gefréfrian ðone wyrhtan ðe þæt tól ámyrde (cf. forlorenum þám írene ferro perdito, Gr. D. 114, 2: both passages describe the same incident), Hml. Th. ii. 162, 12
hryre
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.), hasty action Ealle word hryres omnia uerba praecipitationis, Ps. Rdr. 51, 6. On myclum hryre seó heord wearð on sǽ besceofen magno impetu grex praecipitatus est in mare, Mk. 5, 13.
þanc
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Þe sulve mose hire þonkes wolde þe totose, O. and N. 70. Lordschipe wol not his thonkes han no felaweschipe, Chauc. Kn.
á-hwár
somewhere ⬩ anywhere ⬩ alicubi ⬩ in any wise ⬩ quoquo modo
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G. 11; Th. i. 172, 21. in any wise; quoquo modo And se man, ðe wiðcwiþ ðínum bebodum [Grn. wordum] áhwár, beo he deáþes scildig and the man, who shall in any wise contradict [speak against] thy commands [Grn. words], he shall be guilty of death, Jos.
án-lípig
Going alone ⬩ solitary ⬩ private ⬩ singular ⬩ alone ⬩ solitarius ⬩ privatus ⬩ singularis ⬩ solus ⬩ tantus
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He nánwiht on hand nyman wolde bútan his ágene gyrde ánlipíge nonnisi virgam tantum habere in manu voluit, 3, 18; S. 546, 32
dolh-swæþ
A trace of a wound, a scar ⬩ cicatrīcis vestīgium, cĭcātrix
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A trace of a wound, a scar; cicatrīcis vestīgium, cĭcātrix Dolhswæþ [MS. -swað] cĭcātrix, Ælfc. Gl. 85; Som. 73, 115; Wrt. Voc. 49, 22.
nǽgan
To address ⬩ accost ⬩ speak to
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To address, accost, speak to Nigeþan síþe nǽgde se gomola, sǽgde eaforan worn, Exon. Th. 304, 5; Fä. 65. But generally the verb is accompanied by wordum : -- Ðú mé wordum nǽgest, fúsne frignest, 175, 26; Gú. 1200. Hine weroda God wordum nǽgde, Cd.
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weorold-cempa
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A warrior of this world, an earthly (not a spiritual) soldier Se woruldkempa weraþ woruldlíce wǽpna ongeán his gelícan, ac ðú habban scealt ða gástlícan wǽpna ongeán ðone gástlícan feónd, Basil admn. 2 ; Norm. 34, 31. Woruldcempa, 36, 17.
weoruld-lufu
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Love of the world, love of worldly things Wé nellaþ búgan fram ðyssere andweardan woruldlufe, Homl. Th. i. 580, 3.
wrǽt
A work of art ⬩ a jewel ⬩ an ornament
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A work of art, a jewel, an ornament Se (the cave) wæs innan full wrǽtta and wíra, weard unhióre goldmáðmas heóld, Beo. Th. 4817; 3. 2413. Wundenmǽl wrǽttum gebunden, 3067 ; 3. 1531. Is ðes middangeard wísum gewlitegad, wrǽttum gefrætwad, Exon.
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