bród
a growing together, congealing, waxing hard; ⬩ concretio. ⬩ a BROOD ⬩ proles
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a growing together, congealing, waxing hard; concretio. Cot. 55. a BROOD proles, v. bródig ;
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ofer-máðum
A very valuable treasure, a treasure of surpassing worth,
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A very valuable treasure, a treasure of surpassing worth, Beo. Th. 5979; B. 2993
hilde-leóma
A hostile, warlike ray
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A hostile, warlike ray, Beo. Th. 2291; B. 1143 [a sword]: 5159; B. 2583
stig
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A wooden enclosure, a sty; but also part of a house, a hall (?) cf. stig-weard Gif cniht binnan stig sitte if a servant sit within the hall (?), Chart. Th. 612, 32. Stigo vistrina (suestrina? the word occurs at the head of a list 'de suibus'), Wrt.
Clofes hoo
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Cliff, near Rochester Her sinoþ wæs æt Clofes hoo [æt Clofes hó, col. 2] in this year [A. D. 822] there was a synod at Cliff, Chr. 822; Th. 111, 14, col. l; 110, 14, col. l, 2. Æt Clofes hóum at Cliff, Th. Diplm. A. D. 803; 52, 32: A.
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sweord-bora
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one who bears a sword for his own use, a swordsman Sweord spata vel pugio, swyrdbora spatarius, Wrt. Voc. i. 35, 8. Swurdbora, 84, 13.
wearda
A watchman or a watch
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Gr. 13; Zup. 84, 16
beám-telg
Dye of a tree [ink] ⬩ tinctura arborea [atramentum scriptorium]
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Dye of a tree [ink]; tinctura arborea [atramentum scriptorium] Fugles wyn beámtelge swealg the bird's joy [i. e. the pen] swallowed dye of a tree, Exon. 107 a; Th. 408, 9; Rä. 27, 9
Sweordoras
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A people of Mercia occupying a district of three hundred hidesCod. Dip. B. i. 414, 21. Sweordora þryú hund hýda (the name occurs in a list of districts in the land of the Mercians)
temes-píle
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A stake to support a sieve (A 'temsynge staff' = cervida, lignum quod portat cribrum, Prompt. Parv. 488, note 3] Man sceal habban syfa, hriddel, hérsyfe, tæmespílan, fanna, Anglia ix. 264. 14. v. preceding words
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BENC
A BENCH ⬩ scamnum ⬩ abacus
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A BENCH; scamnum, abacus Bugon to bence they turned to a bench Beo. Th. 659; B. 327. On bence wæs helm a helm was on the bench Beo. Th. 2491; B. 1243
dǽd-leán
A deed-loan or reward, a recompence ⬩ factorum præmium
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A deed-loan or reward, a recompence; factorum præmium Him eallum wile mihtig Drihten dǽdleán gyfan the mighty Lord will give them all a recompence, Cd. 156; Th. 194, 20; Exod. 263
iú-dǽd
formerly
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A deed done of old or formerly Gú-dǽda, Exon. 64 a ; Th. 235, 12; Ph. 556. Iúdǽdum, 76 a; Th. 284, 26; Jul. 703 : Cd. 217; Th. 276, 10; Sat. 186
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bi-scyrian
to deprive, separate
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to deprive, separate, Exon. 88 a; Th. 330, 23; Vy. 55: 30 a; Th. 93, 3; Cri. 1520: 95 a; Th. 355, 28; Reim. 84: 42 b; Th. 142, 17; Gú. 645
fearn-lǽs
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A fern-pasture; the right to pasture swine in such a pasture Illam terram liberabo a pascua porcorum regis quod nominamus fearnlesuue, C. D. ii. 59, 19. v. Sax. Engl. ii. 87
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scearn-wifel
A dung-beetle
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A dung-beetle Scearnwifel (-fifel, MS.) scarabeus, Wrt. Voc. i. 23, 69. Halliwell gives sharn-bug, a cockchafer, as a Sussex word. Cf. Ssarnboddes (beetles) þet louieþ þet dong, Ayenb. 61, 32
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brýten-wong
a plain, field ⬩ A spacious plain or field ⬩ the world ⬩ spatiosus campus, mundus
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[brýten, wang, wong a plain, field] A spacious plain or field, in pl. the world; spatiosus campus, mundus Geond brýtenwongas throughout the spacious world, Exon. 13 a; Th. 24, 6; Cri. 380
búr-cote
a bower ⬩ a couch ⬩ A bed-chamber ⬩ cubiculum
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[búr a bower, cote a couch] A bed-chamber; cubiculum On hira búrcotum, and on hiera beddum in their bed-chambers, and in their beds, Past. 16, 2; Hat. MS. 20b, 15
beácnung
a BECKONING ⬩ nodding ⬩ nutus ⬩ a speaking by tropes or figures ⬩ tropologia
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a BECKONING or nodding; nutus, Cot. 139. a speaking by tropes or figures; tropologia, Cot. 201
buruh-waru
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the people of a city in a body, Chr. 1013; Th. 270, 28: Deut. 21, 21