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hamela

Grammar
hamela, hamola.
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Take here the article under homela, and add: The Latin version of the law is: Si eum radat in contumeliam ad collificum ( = ? colobicum)

Linked entry: homela

slá

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Gyf þé slána lyste, þonne sete þú þínne winstran þúman on þínes litlan fingres lið and pýt mid þínum scytefingre in þíne wynstran hand on þornes getácnunge þe hí on weaxað, Tech. ii. 124, 24. Add

wer

(n.)
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B. ii. 247, 20. Twýgen weoras in fluvio qui dicitur Stúr, i. 598, 8. v. beám- (C. D. v. 148, 21), sǽ-wer; see also Midd. Flur

halan

(n.)
Grammar
halan, [or hamlan]

afterbirth

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afterbirth Gáte geallan on wíne gedruncen wífa halan him ofádéþ goat's gall, drunken in wine, removes women's afterbirth for them, Lchdm. i. 356, 8 Similar entries v. Gloss : Lchdm. ii

tygele

(n.)
Grammar
tygele, (?), an; f.

A lamprey

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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

fullwiht-bæþ

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Substitute for what is given at fulluht-bæþ: a font On fulluhtbæþe in baptisterio, An. Ox. 4087: 4360. baptism Ꝥ gerýne onfón fulluhtbæþes sacri baptismatis sacramenta pereipere, Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 76, 6: Guth. 76, 4

wyrþe-land

(n.)
Grammar
wyrþe-land, es; n.

Land that has lain fallow, land ploughed for the first time, a cultivated field

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Land that has lain fallow, land ploughed for the first time, a cultivated field Wyrðelandum novalibus (tellus millenos animarum manipulos in fructiferis ecclesiae novalibus protulit, Ald. 32), Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 26: 77, 50: 59, 56

Linked entry: worþ

án-gild

(n.)
Grammar
án-gild, -geld, -gyld, es; n. [án one, gild a payment, compensation] .

a single payment or compensation ⬩ the single value of property claimed or in dispute ⬩ a rate fixed by law, at which certain injuries, either to person or property, were to be paid for ⬩ simplex compensatio ⬩ the fixed price or rate at which cattle and other goods were received as currency ⬩ æstimatio ⬩ pretium

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Edg. ii. 7; Th. i. 268, 19: L. Eth. iii. 4; Th. i. 294, 17: L. O. D. 4; Th. i. 354, 15: Th. Diplm. A.

Linked entries: án-geld án-gyld

hón

(v.)
Grammar
hón, p. héng; pp. hangen

To hang, ⬩ suspend, ⬩ crucify

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Hóh on earm hang it on to the arm, Med. ex Quadr. 9, 12; Lchdm, i. 362, 27. Ðone óðerne hé hét hón on gealgan alterum suspendit in crucem, Gen. 40, 22. Hét se wælhreówa hine hón on heardre hengene, Homl. Th. ii. 308, 29.

gang

going, walking, moving on foot, step. ⬩ the sole of the foot (?) ⬩ the being habitually in a specified condition ⬩ power of walking ⬩ of moving about ⬩ mode of walking, walk, gait ⬩ a walk, journey ⬩ go, time, occasion of going ⬩ a way, road, path, passage ⬩ a track ⬩ course ⬩ a stream ⬩ a narrative ⬩ space traversed ⬩ expanse covered ⬩ an ox-gang, a bovale, the eighth part of the carucate. ⬩ legal process ⬩ legal procedure, process ⬩ a company of people (?), a gang. ⬩ a step, stair ⬩ a privy

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Th. ii. 390, 16. Þurh his fóta gange ambulando Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 349, 14. Gif ic míne heorde þrafige on gancge (in ambulando), R. Ben. 120, 20. Tó ráde oþþe tó gange for riding or walking Ll. Th. i. 232, 15.

metgian

(v.)
Grammar
metgian, metegian, metian; p. ode.

to assign due measure ⬩ to moderate ⬩ regulate ⬩ to measure in the mind ⬩ consider ⬩ meditate upon

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Ic metegian ongan mænigra weorca meditatus sum in omnibus operibus tuis, 76, 10

Linked entries: metegian ge-metgian

weorpan

(v.)
Grammar
weorpan, (wurpan, wyrpan); p. wearp, pl. wurpon; pp. worpen.
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Skt. i. 3, 347. where a (forcible) change of a person's place or condition is made (lit. or fig.), to cast into prison, cast off, out, throw into a form, drive out Ic ne weorpe (wyrpe, wurpe, v. ll. ) út ðone ðe tó mé cymð, Jn. Skt. 6, 37.

Linked entries: worpian wurpan

hreódeum

(adj.)
Grammar
hreódeum, [ = hreódegum? cf. hreódiht]

reedy

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In heágum mórum and in hreódeum [other MS. hréþum] in arduis asperisque montibus, Bd. 4, 27; S. 604, 27

ende-byrdlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
ende-byrdlíce, adv.

Orderly, in order, in succession ⬩ successĭve

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Orderly, in order, in succession; successĭve Ealle ðás wǽron endebyrdlíce bisceopháda brúcende on Myrcna þeóde all these in succession enjoyed the bishopric of Mercia, Bd. 3, 24; S. 558, 4. Endebyrdlíce in order, Bt. 33, 4; Fox 128, 7

ge-tenge

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Swá fela áwyrigedra gásta wǽron ðǽm ǽnum men getenge (cf. intrauerunt daemonia multa in eum, Lk. 8, 30), Hml. Th. ii. 378, 30

folc-gefeoht

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Th. ii. 150, 4.

nearu-cræft

(n.)
Grammar
nearu-cræft, es; m.

An art that confines or imprisons

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Beorh wunode on wonge nearocræftum fæst ðǽr on innan bær eorl gestreóna ... feá worda cwæþ : Hold ðú nú hrúse eorla ǽhte the mound stood on the plain firm in its prisoning powers (able to keep in durance the treasure entrusted to it) ; therein bore the

cracian

(v.)
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Substitute: To crack, sound, resound Cracaþ, brastlaþ crepat, i. sonat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 64. Craciendum, cearciendum crepante, i. sonante, An. Ox. 31. ¶ In Ps. Th. 45, 3 for cracode apparently should be read cwacode (v.

gist-ærn

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gist-ærn, gist-ern.
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Take here <b>gest-ærn, gest-æern, gyst-ærn, gyst-æern</b> in Dict., and add: a place of entertainment for strangers Gestærn diversorium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 62.

Gleáw-ceaster

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Intó Gléweceaster, iii. 208, 25; Chr. 918; Th. 193, 18. Of Gleáwcestre, 1043; P. 163, 32: 1052; P. 175, 6. Tó Gléwcestre, 1053; P. 182, 38. ¶ Latin forms :-- In uicecomitatu Gloecestre, C. D. iv. 172, 20. In Gloecestria, 254, 9.