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Beormas

(n.)
Grammar
Beormas, gen. a; pl. m.

The Biarmians

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The Finns and the Biarmians, as it seemed to him, spoke nearly the same language, Ðá Beormas hæfdon swíðe well gebún hyra land the Biarmians had Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 11-15

gilpan

(v.)
Grammar
gilpan, gielpan, gylpan, ic gilpe, gielpe, gylpe, ðú gilpst, gielpst, gylpst, he gilpþ, gielpþ, pl. gilpaþ, gielpaþ, gylpaþ; p. gealp, pl. gulpon; pp. golpen

To gloryboastdesire earnestlygloriari

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Ðæt hine swelces gamenes gilpan lyste that he liked to boast of such sport, Bt. Met. Fox 9, 38; Met. 9, 19. Ðæt ðú wile gilpan that thou wilt boast, Salm. Kmbl. 409; Sal. 205.

Linked entries: gielpan gelpan

mán

(n.)
Grammar
mán, es; n.

A bad, shameful actiona crimecrimeguiltwickedness

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Tó ðam ilcan men ( Achan) ðe ðæt mán (taking of the forbidden spoil ) gefremode, Jos. 7, 17 : Cd. 10; Th. 12, 22; Gen. 189. Ne swera ðú mán (cf. O. Sax. ni thú ménes ni sweri) non perjurabis, Lev. 19, 12. Se man ðe swereþ mán, 5, 4.

Linked entry: mán-áþ

gehðo

(n.)
Grammar
gehðo, gehðu, geohðu, geoðu, giohðo, giðu, e; f.

Careanxietycurasolicitudo

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Iudas cwæþ ðæt he ðæt on gehðu gesprǽce Judas said that he spoke that in trouble, Elen. Kmbl. 1331; El. 667. Ne meahte he ða gehðu bebúgan he could not avoid the sorrow, 1215; El. 609.

Linked entry: gihþu

GÉN

(adv.)
Grammar
GÉN, gién; adv.

Again, moreover, besides, at length, yet, hithertoiterum, denuo, adhuc, insuper, denique

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Ðá gién seó fǽmne spræc then again spoke the woman, Exon. 71 b; Th. 267,19; Jul, 417. Geornor ðonne he gén dyde more eagerly than yet he had done, 67 a; Th. 249, 12; Jul. 110.

FRÓFOR

(n.)
Grammar
FRÓFOR, frófer, frófur; gen. frófre; f: v. <b>II;</b> but frófor and frófer are sometimes m.

comfortsolaceconsolationhelpbenefitprofitrefugesōlāmensōlātiumconsōlātioauxĭliumrefŭgium

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Sárge gé ne sóhton, ne him swǽslíc word frófre gé sprǽcon the sorrowful ye sought not, nor a kindly word spoke ye to them, Exon. 30a; Th. 92, 21; Cri. 1512.

ildan

(v.)
Grammar
ildan, p. de

To delaytarrydeferput offpostponeprocrastinateconnive atdissimulate

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Ðá se brýdguma ylde moram faciente sponso, Mt. Kmbl. 25, 5, Hé ilde [Cott. MS. ielde] and þafode ða scylda dissimulavit culpas, Past. 21, 1 ; Swt. 151, 22. Hé ða gewilnunge náht lange ne ylde he did not long delay that desire, Th. Ap. 1, 17.

Linked entries: ældan ildian ilding

plega

(n.)
Grammar
plega, an; m.
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Gl. 474, 10. play, (athletic) sport, game; often in poetry applied to fighting, see the compounds Plega ludus, Ælfc. Gr. 8 ; Som. 7, 30. Ðes plega hic jocus, 13; Som. 16, 27 : Wrt. Voc. i. 85, 30. Plaega palestra, ii. 116, 5.

Linked entries: plegan hand-plega

HORN

(n.)
Grammar
HORN, es; m.

A HORN, a drinking-horn, a cupping-horn, a trumpet, the horn-shaped projection on the gable-end of a house [v. Dasent's translation of Njála, plate 3, p. cvii], a pinnacle a horn, drinking-horn, trumpet, husk cornu, tuba a horn, drinking-horn, trumpet; a corner n. cornu, tuba, promontorium

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Ic wiht geseah wundorlíce horna ábitweónum húþe lǽdan I saw a creature [the moon] wondrously bringing spoil between its horns, Exon. 107 b; Th. 411, 19; Rä. 30, 2. Heorot hornum trum the hart firm-antlered, Beo. Th. 2742; B. 1369.

Columba

(n.)
Grammar
Columba, an; m.

An Irish priest, the Apostle of the Highlands

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Columba is thus spoken of in the Chr. A.

Finnas

(n.)
Grammar
Finnas, gen. a; pl. m.
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Ða Finnas and ða Beormas sprǽcon neáh án geþeóde the Finns and the Biarmians spoke nearly the same language, 1, 1: Bos. 20, 14: 19, 29.

teón

(v.)
Grammar
teón, (from tíhan; but the verb seems to have almost entirely given up the conjugation to which this form would belong and to take that of teón from teóhan); p. teáh, pl. tugon; pp. togen, tygen
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Hé teáh hiene ðæt hé his ungerisno sprǽce wið ða senatos he (Philip) charged him (Demetrius, his son) that he had spoken disparagingly of him to the senate, Ors. 4, 11; Swt. 206, 28.

ge-sleán

(v.)
Grammar
ge-sleán, p. -slóg, -slóh, pl. -slógon; pp. -slagen, -slægen, -slegen

To strikepitch [a tent]smiteslayquellforgefightobtain by fighting

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Húþe ðe ic æt hilde geslóh spoil that I gained in war, Cd. 98; Th. 129, 25; Gen. 2149: Chr. 937; Erl. 112, 4; Æthelst. 4: Beo. Th. 5985; B. 2994.

Linked entry: ge-slóh

nemnan

(v.)
Grammar
nemnan, nemnian; p. nemde.

to namegive a name to a person or thingto use such and such a name or title in speaking of a person or thingto call upon the name ofaddress by nameto invoketo mention by nameto mentionrelateto namenominate

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Ðis andwerde líf hé nemde for weg this present life he spoke of as a way, L. E. I. 35; Th. ii. 432, 23.

Linked entries: a-nemnan namnian

stede

(n.)
Grammar
stede, es; m.
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a place, spot, locality Mid wæter ymbtyrnd stede circumlutus locus, Wrt. Voc. i. 59, 15. Se stede ys hálig ðe ðú on stenst locus, in quo stas, sanctus est, Jos. 5, 16. Ðes ænga stede (Hell), Cd. Th. 23, 9; Gen. 356.

Linked entries: bed-stede hám-stede

leó

(n.)
Grammar
leó, g. león; [a dat. leóne and acc. f. leó are found as well as regular forms león: the dat. pl. leónum is put under leóna q.v.] m. f.

A lionlioness

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Hió sceolde forsceoppan tó león and ðonne seó sceolde sprecan ðonne rýnde hió she turned into a lioness, and when it ought to have spoken, then she roared, Bt. 38, 1; Fox 194, 33. Nán heort ne onscúnode nǽnne león, 35, 6; Fox 168, 9.

Linked entries: leá león leóna

reáf-lác

(n.)
Grammar
reáf-lác, es; n. m.
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Ðeft and reflac ðhugte him no same, Gen. and Ex. 436.] what is taken, spoil, booty, plunder Reáflác preda, Wrt. Voc. i. 35. 39 : ii. 146, 33. Ǽlc bit ðæs reáfláces ðe him on genumen biþ, oððe eft óðres gítsaþ, Bt. 26, 2; Fox 92, 17.

sprecan

(v.)
Grammar
sprecan, specan; spræc, spæc; sprǽcon, spǽcon; sprecen, specen

To speak. to exercise the faculty of speechto use words in conversation, discourse, etc.to mentionto sayto speakto sue for, make a claim against, lay claim to

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Th. 108, 20. where the object is that which is spoken about, to mention On swelcum cræftum swelce wé ǽr sprǽnoc, Past. 9; Swt. 59, 12. Of ðsǽm beorgum ðe wé ǽr sprǽcon (sǽdonMS. L.), Ors. 1, 1; 805. 17, 44.

MACIAN

(v.)
Grammar
MACIAN, p. ode

To MAKEdoact

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Bǽdon sume ðæt Samson móste him macian sum gamen some asked, that Samson should make sport for them, Jud. 16, 25. Riht is ðæt mynecena mynsterlíce macian it is right that nuns that should practise the rules of their monasteries, L. I.

sægen

(n.)
Grammar
sægen, sæcgen, segen, e; f.

a saying, statement, assertiontradition, report, story a narration, relation

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Sægenum scriptis, 472, 5. a narration, relation (whether spoken or written) Ðý læs ðæt eów seó sægen monigfealdlícor biþ onþúhte tó wrítanne ic ða wille lǽton ðe ðǽr gewurdon ne sim scribendi multiplex, priora facta praecognita praetereo, Nar. 3, 29

Linked entries: segen sæcgen