leác-cærse
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'A cress with an onion-like smell, alliaria officinalis' E. D. S. Plant Names. Cockayne says 'erysimum alliaria,' Lchdm. ii. 318, 7: 320, 3. In Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 40, leáccærse id est túncærse glosses nasturcium
meter-fers
Hexameter verse
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Hexameter verse Be his lífe wé áwriton ge meterfers ge gerǽdre sprǽce de vita illius et versibus heroicis et simplici oratione conscripsimus, Bd. 4, 28; S. 605, 13. Meterfersum versibus hexametris, 5, 18; S. 636, 6
bi-leóran
To pass by or over ⬩ transire, præterire
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Lind. 14, 35, 36. Se bileórde qui præterivit, Ps. Surt. 89, 4
Linked entry: be-leóran
ge-dwellan
to deceive ⬩ lead astray ⬩ to err
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Lind. 22, 29
Linked entry: ge-dwǽlan
tygele
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A lamprey Tigle murenula (the word occurs in a list of the names of fishes; murenula is elsewhere glossed by ǽl, 66, 5: 281, 66; sǽ-ǽl, q.v.), Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 66. Cf. (?) preceding word
Linked entry: tigle
wreccan
To twist ⬩ to strain ⬩ to torment
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; wuræcce, Lind. ) adiuro te ne me torqueas. Mk. Skt. Rush. 5, 7
ge-dwǽscan
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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
Linked entry: dwǽscan
ge-wuldorfullian
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To glorify Ðá ðe God geclypode tó þám clǽnan lífe, and ðá ðe hé gewuldorfullode tó þám écan wurðmynte, Hml. A. 45, 517. On ðám bið mín fæder gewuldorfullod ꝥ gé micelne wæstm forþberon, 48, 587
Linked entry: wuldorfullian
á-pundrian
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to estimate Eów sceal þæt leás ápundrad (printed á-wundrad, but the facsimile has p not þ) weorðan tó woruldgedále that falseness shall be accounted to you as just cause for parting with life, El. 581
Linked entry: á-wundrian
for-rǽdan
to give counsel against ⬩ to condemn ⬩ plot against ⬩ deprive by treachery, wrong ⬩ condemnāre ⬩ insĭdias părāre
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Ðæt man his hláford of lífe forrǽde that a man deprive his lord of life, Lupi Serm. i. 9; Hick. Thes. ii. 102, 7. [Cf. Icel. ráða af dögum to kill.]
mitta
A measure, both dry and liquid, as for corn, meal, ale, honey
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Wíf gehýdeþ in meolo mitto þrió mulier abscondit in farinae sata tria, Lind. 13, 21
Linked entry: an-mitta
nearu
narrow ⬩ strait ⬩ confined ⬩ not spacious ⬩ narrow ⬩ limited ⬩ poor ⬩ restricted ⬩ strait ⬩ oppressive ⬩ causing anxiety ⬩ oppressed ⬩ not having free action ⬩ strict ⬩ severe
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Hét hié from hweorfan neorxna wange on nearore líf, Cd.
Linked entry: nearu-cræft
land-búend
husbandman ⬩ a native
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Lind. 15, 1. Ða landbúendo agricolæ, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 21, 38. Ðǽm lond-búendum agricolis, 33: 40: Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 12, 2.
Linked entry: búend
seofon
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.: seofona, Lind.: siofun, Rush.) óðre gástas, Mt. Kmbl. 12, 45. without a following noun Ðá nam se þridda hig, and swá ealle seofone (-ene, MS. A.: seofono, Lind.: ða siofune, Rush.), Lk. Skt. 20, 31. Ealle seofon (-en, MS. A.: -an, MS.
tunece
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Lind. Rush. ), Lk. Skt. 3, 11: Blickl. Homl. 169, 13
Linked entry: tunice
sweostor
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Lind.: swester, Rush.) wæs Maria huic erat soror nomine Maria, Lk. Skt. 10, 39. Soester, Lind. 10, 40. Swuster, Gen. 12, 13. Seó yldre swyster, 19, 33. Sweostor bearna nepotum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 70. Se wæs his sweostor sunu, Bd. 4, 16; S. 584, 16.
Linked entries: suster swuster ge-sweostor
tín
ten ⬩ alone ⬩ a set of ten ⬩ the number ten
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Týn þúsend (téno ł teá ðúsendo, Lind.: tén þúsende, Rush.) punda, Mt. Kmbl. 18, 24. Gelíc ðám týn fǽmnum (téwm hehstaldum, Lind.: tén fémnan, Rush.), 25, 1. Mid týn (téum ł ténum, Lind.: tén, Rush.) þúsendum, Lk. Skt. 14, 31. Týn (teá, Lind.
byrst
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Hyre twigu beóþ swylce swínene [MS. swinen] byrst its twigs are like swine bristles, Herb. 52, 2; Lchdm. i. 156, 3
cwic-lifian
To live ⬩ vivere
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To live ; vivere Cwic-lifigende living, Salm. Kmbl. 840 ; Sal. 419. Ðǽr sceal fæsl wesan cwic-lifigendra cynna gehwilces there shall be food for each of living kinds, Cd. 65; Th. 79, 14; Gen. 1311