heord-ness
Similar entry: hird-ness
heort-leás
cowed
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Without courage or spirit, cowed Ic bidde, man, ꝥ þú gemune hú micel bið se bróga beforan dómsetle Drihtnes þænne, stent hé (ealra hergea mǽst. Wlfst. 137, 22) heortleás and earh, ámasod and ámarod, mihtleás, áfǽred sis memor illius qui tum pavor ante
heort-seócness
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Dele
heort-wærc
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Gif him oninnan heard heortwærc sié, þonne him wyxþ wind on þǽre heortan, Lch. ii. 60, 6: iii. 74u 21. Wið heortwærce, 18. Add
heoru-drync
a wound
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Drinking by the sword, a wound. [For the personifying of the sword and its drinking of blood when making a wound cf. such passages as : Gladius Domini repletus est sanguine, Is. 34, 6.] Hréðles eafora hiorodryncum swealt (cf. wundum sweltan, By. 293)
heoru-flá
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an arrow for war Wǽpna and heoruflán arma et sagittę, Ps. L. 56, 5
here-féþa
a phalanx
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a troop of infantry, a phalanx Þreát, herigféþa falanx, i. exercitus, multitudo militum, cohors, Wrt. Voc. ii. 147, 6. Add:
here-hlóþ
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Ne ic me herehlóðe helleþegna swíðe onsitte nor do I fear much a crew of hell's ministers. Add
hege-rife
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Wiþ cneówwærc, wuduweaxe and hegerife, Lch. ii. 66, 11: 140, 3. Wyl æscrinde, . . . hegerife, marubian . . . and jí líc gnid mid þǽre hegerifan, Wyrc sealfe of marubian, . . . hegerifan, 78, 11-16. Hegerifan corn, 344, ii. Genim hegerifan, 76, II: iii
hors-here
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For Lye substitute Horshere Phæræones, Cant. Moys. Thw. 23
níþ-hell
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hell where malice and wickedness reign (?) Þú scealt faran intó þǽre nigenda níþhelle (hnígende intó þǽre níþhelle (niþerhelle lower hell ? The MS. is a late one )? Cf. hé tó helle hnígan sceolde. Sat. 375), Hml. A. 174, 150
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rǽde-here
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Rǽdehere equitatus (Pharaonis), Ps. Rdr. 282, 19. Add
ráh-hege
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A deer-fence On ðá þornrǽwe eástrihte ðæt hit cyme tó ðám ráhhege; after ðám hege, C. D. iii. 77, 29. Be ðám ráh-hege, 461, 5
ríde-here
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A mounted force, cavalry Of rídehere eguitatu, An. Ox. 2, 444
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scip-here
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scyld-hete
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Add: Cf. níþ-hete
swín-hege
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A fence to keep swine from straying Tó bysceopes swýnhege; ondlong heges, C.D. iii. 77, 11. Of ðǽre burnan on ðane swýnhege; andlang heges, 78, 5
tirig-hege
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Of langan leáge on tyrighege; of tyrighege, C.D. v. 234, 22
fearn-hege
Similar entry: HEGE
cwic-hege
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a hedge composed of living plants Oð ðone cwichege, C.D. iii. 380, 12. [v. N.E.D. quick hedge: D.D. quick a young thorn for making hedges.]