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hweorfan

(v.)
Grammar
hweorfan, hworfan, hwurfan

To turnchangegoreturndepartgo aboutwanderroam

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Hie wǽron eft hám hweorfende they were returning home, Blickl. Homl. 67, 10. Ðá wæs Maria eft hweorfende tó hire húse, 139, 3. Hie ymb ðæt fuhton on hweorfendum sigum Samniticum bellum ancipiti statu gestum, Ors. 3, 5; Swt. 106, 3.

þanc

(n.)
Grammar
þanc, es; m.
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Lordschipe wol not his thonkes han no felaweschipe, Chauc. Kn.

Linked entries: þancung þonc

georne

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Add: where an effort has to be made, with a will, in earnest Nó ic him þæs georne ætfealh, B. 968. Geóca ús georne, Az. 12. where a duty or business has to be done, diligently Ic offylgde from fruma alle georne ( diligenter ), Lk. L. R. 1, 3.

GEÁC

(n.)
Grammar
GEÁC, es; m.

A cuckoogawkcŭcūlus

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Siððan ðú gehýrde galan geómorne geác on bearwe when thou hast heard the sad cuckoo sing in the grove, 123 b; Th. 473, 30; Bo. 22. Geácas geár budon cuckoos announced the [time of] year, Exon. 43 b; Th. 146, 27; Gú. 716. ¶ Geáces súre, an; f.

Linked entries: gǽc iáces súre

in-segel

(n.)
Grammar
in-segel, es; n.

A sealsignet

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Swá hwæðer swá heó beó fúl swá clǽne binnan ðam insegle whether it [the hand] be foul or clean within the seal, L. Æðelst iv. 7 ; Th. i. 226, 32. Ðá sende se cyning his insegel tó ðam gemóte, Chart. Th. 288, 22

Linked entries: -segel in-sigle

ge-segnian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-segnian, -sénian; p. ode, ade; pp. od, ad [segnian, sénian to sign]

To mark with the sign of the cross, to sign, blesscrŭcis signo signāre, bĕnĕdīcĕre

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Gif heó gesegnod biþ if it hath been blessed, Salm. Kmbl. 812; Sal. 405. Gesunde and gesénade safe and blessed, Exon. 27 b; Th. 82, 22; Cri. 1342

Linked entries: segnian ge-sénian

wrigian

(v.)
Grammar
wrigian, p. ode

To turnwendhiegomove

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Swá déþ ǽlc gesceaft, wrigaþ wiþ his gecyndes, and gefagen biþ gif hit ǽfre tó cuman mæge validis quondam viribus acta fronam flectet virga cacumen; hanc si curvans dextra remisit, recto special writes coelum . . .

beorþor

child-bearingpartusgestationpartusfoetus

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Gif hé mónðe ǽr þám beorþre (ante partum) hǽmð, 24. Ǽr þám beorðre and æfter þǽre ácenned-nysse ante partum et post partum, 190, 20: Bl. H. 155, 33.

be-smítan

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His hand næs besmiten mid ágote-num blóde, Hml. Th. ii. 304, 31. Bið se deáda besmiten (incriminated; in culpa, Lat. vers.), búton hé frínd hæbbe þe hine clǽnsnian, Ll. Th. i. 290, 12. Hié beóþ besmitene mid firenluste, Bl. H. 25, 8.

wígbed-bót

(n.)
Grammar
wígbed-bót, e; f.

A fine paid to the bishop for the injury done to the church by doing wrong to one in holy orders

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A fine paid to the bishop for the injury done to the church by doing wrong to one in holy orders Gif man preóst gewundige, gebéte man ða wyrdlan, and tó weófodbóte for his háde sylle .xii. ór.; æt diácone .vi. ór. tó weófodbóte, L. N. P.

híwisc

(n.)
Grammar
híwisc, hígwisc, es; n.

A family, household, house; also a hide of land

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Gif hé hæbbe híwisc landes if he have a hide of land, L. Wg. 7; Th. i. 186, 13 [cf. l. 23]. On Cotenes-felde án hýwysce and þóder dél of Branok hyalf híwisce in Cotensfield one hide, and the other part of Branok half a hide, Chart. Th. 107, 26-8.

Linked entries: -isc híw-scipe

ge-býrian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-býrian, l. -byrian, take here ge-berian
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Sé þe ꝥ nelle, ꝥ his háde gebyrige, Ll. Th. i. 306, 22

on

Grammar
on, Add: <b>A. I.</b> 5 ¶
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Nú hit eall ágán is on ðǽron oð ðíne hand, C. D. ii. 114, 6

æt

(prep.)
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Æt hám gebring, Lch. ii. 292, 25. motion from Se sceocca sceall áswǽman æt ús, . . . and Gríst hine ádrǽfð þæt hé ús derian ne mæge, Hml.

mál

(n.)
Grammar
mál, es; n.

an actionsuitcause

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Se cyng sealde his lande swá deóre tó mále swá heó deórost mihte made as hard terms as ever he could, 1086; Erl. 220, 8

geongan

(v.)
Grammar
geongan, ic geonge, ðú geongest, he geongeþ; p. gang, pl. gungon.

To goire

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To go; ire He com to sele geongan he came to go [ = he came or went] to the hall, Andr. Kmbl. 2624; An. 1313. Wutun geonga eamus, Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 42: 12, 3, Geongende ambulans, 16, 12: Jn. Skt. Lind. 1, 36.

þurh-smúgan

(v.)

to creep throughmove slowly throughto go carefully through a subjectgo over the details

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Hig habbaþ áscrutnod Serium and Priscianum, and þurhsmogun Catus cwydas they have gone carefully through Cato's Disticha, Anglia viii. 321, 28

Linked entry: smúgan

feax

a bush

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Ꝥ fýr ne fornam ne án hǽr heora feaxes, Hml. S. 30, 465. Fexe, hǽre capillatura, An. Ox. 1214. Heó hire wætres bæd, and hí þwóhg, and hyre feax gerǽdde (crines composuit), Bd. 3, 9; Sch. 232, 9.

Linked entries: feaxede feax-gerǽdian

ge-risenlic

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Gehrisnelic woere gefeáge oportebat gaudere, 15, 32. suitable, suited to one&#39;s needs Gif þeós níwe lár ówiht cúðlicre and gerisenlicre brenge si haec noua doctrina certius aliquid attulit, Bd. 2, 13; Sch. 166, 8. deserving honour, honest, creditable

hóc

a hookchaindragginga fish-hook

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Similar entries v. tyge-, web-, wíngeard-hóc. a fish-hook Hóc hamus Wrt. Voc. ii. 43, 36. Sende ongul ł hóc (hóc ðín, R.) mitte chamum Mt. L. 17, 27. a curved implement Hóce cauterio (torrido dogmatum cauterio, Ald. 26, 34), Wrt.