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friþiend

(n.)
Grammar
friþiend, friþigend, es; m.
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Uton lufian úre cyrican, for ðám heó bið úre friðiend and werigend wið þæt micele fýr on dómes dæg, Wlfst. 239, 7. v. ge-friþi(g)end

ge-scrífan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-scrífan, p. -scráf, -screáf; pp. -scrifen.

to judge, deem, assign, impose, appointjudicare, assignare, imponere, designareto shrive, impose penance, censurepœnitentiam imponere, reprehendere

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Hió me lytle læs láðe woldan ðisses eorþweges ende gescrífan paulo minus consummaverunt me in terra, Ps. Th. 118, 87. Siððan gé agifen habbaþ sceattas gescrifene when you have given the appointed sum, Andr.

Linked entry: ge-scrif

ge-libban

(v.)
Grammar
ge-libban, ge-lifian, ge-leofian; p. ge-lifde, ge-lifode, ge-leofode
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Fulne ende þínes lífes þú hæfst gelifd plenam etatis finem habes, Nar. 30, 11

Linked entries: ge-leofian ge-lifian

á-beran

(v.)
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, ond áberan = to endure) áberan. Nap. 4. (?)

un-geendod

(adj.)
Grammar
un-geendod, adj.

endlesswithout endnot coming to an endinfinitevery great in number, extent

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endless, without end, not coming to an end God is ǽfre unbegunnen and ungeendod, Ælfc. Gr. 32; Zup. 201, 10: Homl. Th. i. 8, 27: Homl. Skt. i. 1, 16. Ðǽr is ðæt éce blis and, ðæt ungeendode ríce, Blickl. Homl. 25, 30, 24.

Linked entry: ge-endian

and-heáfdu

(n.)
Grammar
and-heáfdu, (-a); n. pl.
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Headlands, the unploughed ground at the end of the furrows where the plough was turned Andlang ðǽra andheáfda, C. D. v. 298, 7, 9. Be ðém andheáfdan, ii. 172, 29: iii. 193, 8: vi. 8, 27, 29 (cf. on ðá heáfda, 36).

Linked entry: on-heáfdu

wan

(adj.)
Grammar
wan, adj.
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Homl. 131, 17. lacking, not possessed of Wé tíres wone á bútan ende sculon ermþu dreógan, Exon. Th. 17, 15; Cri. 270. with numerals (v. læs), less. Cf. wana; adj. IIIa Ðæt ríce hé hæfde ánes won ðe twéntig wintra, Bd. 4, I ; M. 252, 9.

cniht-hád

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Ióhannes se fulluhtere þurhwunode ǽfre on cnihtháde . . . and Ióhannes se godspellete wunode on cnihtháde oð his lífes ende, Ll. Th. ii. 366, 35-39: 332, 39: Wlfst. 304, 20

earnung

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Dele last passage, and add: labour to obtain something Ǽlc deáþlic man swencþ hine selfne mid mistlicum and manigfealdum ymbhogum, and þeáh willniað ealle þurh mistlice paþas cuman tó ánum ende ꝥ is ꝥ hí wilniaþ þurh ungelíce earnunga cuman tó ánre eádignesse

hwíl-tídum

(n.)
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Se móna is hwíltídum weaxende, hwíltídum wani-ende, Hml. Th. ii. 214, 32

óga

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Gif ǽnig óga is tó ondrǽdenne, þonne is sé tó ondrǽdenne þe nǽnne ende næfð. Witodlíce mannes ege is smíce gelíc, Hml. Th. i. 592, 10. Hé gesette þá lǽssan beboda Iúdéisces þéode þe mid ógan ðágýt gebunden wæs, 548, 22.

Linked entry: on-égan

for-bærnan

(v.)
Grammar
for-bærnan, -bearnan, to -bærnenne; part. -bærnende; p. -bærnde, pl. -bærndon; pp. -bærned, -bærnd; v. trans.

To burn upconsumeŭrĕrecombūrĕre

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Nim ǽnne sticcan . . . forbærn ðone óðerne ende take a stick . . . burn the one end, Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. popl. science 17, 15; Lchdm, iii. 274, 4.

Linked entries: for-bearnan for-bernan

sund

(n.)
Grammar
sund, es; n.
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Wǽglíþende setlaþ sǽmearas sundes æt ende by the shore (or at the end of their swimming (?)), 361, 6; Wal. 15. Ic on sunde áwóx ufan ýþum þeaht, 392, 6; Rä. 11, 3. Sǽmearas sunde getenge, Elen. Kmbl. 456; El. 228. Of nihtes sunde, Salm.

gicel

(n.)
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Dele ís at end, and add: <b>, gicele, an;</b> f. Ickle (v. N. E. D. s. v.) Gecilae stiria Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 26. Gecele, i. 289, 33.

lǽne

(adj.)
Grammar
lǽne, adj.

transitorytemporaryfrail

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Ende him on becom ðisses lǽnan lífes there came upon him an end of this life which is but for a moment, Blickl. Homl. 113, 8. Ne biddan wé úrne Drihten ðyses lǽnan welan, ne ðyssa eorþlícra geofa ðe hrædlíce from monnum gewítaþ, 20, 11.

dúru

(n.)
Grammar
dúru, gen. e; dat. e , a ; acc. e, a, u; pl. nom. a; gen. ena; dat. um; acc. a, u; f: dúre, an; f.

An opening, a door, the door of a houseostium, jānua, fŏris

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An opening, a door, the door of a house; ostium, jānua, fŏris Dúru ymbstandennesse welerum mínum 'keep the door [opening ostium] of my lips,' Eng. versn. Ps. Lamb. 140, 3. Seó dúru wæs belocen clausa erat jānua, Mt. Bos. 25, l0. Dúru sóna on arn soon

Linked entry: dúre

stǽlan

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Þæt mé ne mótan þá dreórgan deófla æt mínum ende ne on dómdæge míne synna on stǽlan (cf. þæt mé nǽfre deófel náht on ne mæge bestǽlan, 101, 52), Angl. xi. 100, 94: Verc. Först. 147, 29. [ For Sat. 640 and Gen. 1352 substitute

on-wacan

(v.)

to awake, cease to sleepto arise, spring, be derived, be born

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Ðá of slǽpe onwóc, swefn wæs æt ende, eorþlíc æðeling, Cd. Th. 249, 2; Dan. 524. Se wyrm onwóc, Beo. Th. 4563; B. 2287.

Linked entries: wacen á-wacan

gár-æcer

(n.)
Grammar
gár-æcer, es; m.

A strip of land tapering at one end

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A strip of land tapering at one end, not having parallel sides like the ordinary acre-strip, v. Seebohm, Vill.

á-blácian

(v.)
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Hept. p. 30, at end). of material, to get dull or tarnished, lose colour Ðæt fægere híw ðæs goldes sié áblácod ( pallescit ), Past. 135, 2