Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

fleóte

Grammar
fleóte, fliéte, flýte

a floatraftpunt

Entry preview:

a float, flat-bottomed boat, raft, punt. Fliute ratis, Txts. 108, 1126. Fliétum ratibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 76, 23. Take here flýte in Dict., and add

rún

Entry preview:

Add Adames sagu wearð of gemynde æfter ðám flóde, and Iobales rúna ealle unnytte, and Nóes and Abrahames and mæniges óðres word ofergytene, Wlfst; 3, 38

slífan

(v.)
Grammar
slífan, p. sláf; pp. slifen

To slive findo, effisso avulsio, abscissioslice

Entry preview:

Palsgrave, "I slyve a gylowfloure or any other floure from his branche or stalke."' Baker, Northants Gloss.)

Linked entry: sléfan

twéntig

Entry preview:

Add Ðes friódóm waes bigeten mid ðaem twéntigum hída, C.D. i. 315, 22. add Weaxeð ꝥ flód ðæs sǽs feówer and twéntigum síða, Shrn. 63, 29. Þá diáconas sceoldon þegnian fram fíf and twéntigum wintra and ofer ꝥ Gr. D. 102, 11

scip

(n.)
Grammar
scip, es; n.
Entry preview:

Scipes flór fori vel tabulata navium, 63, 40. Lytlum scipe cimbula, ii. 22, 34. Scipe cercilo, 17, 72: 76, 30 (cf. aesc cercilus, 103, 56). Ðá wende hé on scype (scipp, Lind.) ascendens nauem, Lk. Skt. 8, 37. Scyp ástígan, Lchdm. iii. 184, 13.

in-fléde

(adj.)
Grammar
in-fléde, adj.
Entry preview:

Full of water [of a stream] Tigris eá infléde Tigris, stream of abundant flood. Cd. 12 ; Th. 15, 12 ; Gen. 232. Lǽt nú streámas weallan, eá infléde, Andr. Kmbl. 3006 ; An. 1506

Linked entries: fléd fléde

efenlíce

(adv.)
Entry preview:

Substitute: evenly, without inequalities of surface Man þǽre cyrcean flór emlíce gewyrce, ꝥ þǽr nán byrgen gesýne ne sý, Ll.

gyte

(n.)
Grammar
gyte, es; m.

A pouringsheddinginundationflood

Entry preview:

A pouring, shedding, inundation, flood Beó his blódes gyte ofer úrum bearnum his bloodshed be upon our children, Homl. Th. ii. 252, 20. Gyte inundatio, Cot. 108, Lye.

un-wæstmbǽre

Entry preview:

Wíse láreówas sǽdon ꝥ seó eorþe wǽte micele unwsestmbǽrre æfter þám flóde þonne heó ǽr wǽre tradunt doctores terrae vigorem et fecunditatem longe inferiorem esse post diluvium quam ante, Angl. vii. 36, 348. Add

HEORD

(n.)
Grammar
HEORD, e; f.

A HERDflock

Entry preview:

Hé dráf his heorde tó inneweardum ðam wéstene he led the flock to the backside of the desert, Ex, 3, 1: L. R. S. 4; Th. i. 434, 21. Rihtwís hyrde ofer cristene heorde a righteous shepherd over a christian flock, L. I. P. 2; Th. ii. 304, 10.

Linked entries: herd heorde hiord

yppe

(n.)
Grammar
yppe, an; f.
Entry preview:

Voc. i. 39, 36. a dais, the raised floor in a hall. Cf. Icel. pallr for this sense Eode æþeling ( Beowulf ) tó yppan, ðǽr se óþer wæs, Hróðgár grétte, Beo. Th. 3634; B. 1815. the upper part of a house, an upper chamber Yppe (Ep.

wæl-regn

(n.)
Grammar
wæl-regn, es; m.

A deadly rainthe rain that caused the Flood

Entry preview:

A deadly rain (the rain that caused the Flood) Ic on andwlítan sígan lǽte wællregn ufan wídre eorðan; fǽhðe ic wille on weras stǽlan, and mid wǽgþreáte eall ácwellan, Cd. Th. 81, 24; Gen. 1350

waþema

(n.)
Grammar
waþema, waþuma, an ; m.

Moving water wave flood

Entry preview:

Moving water, wave, flood Ðá cwom wópes hring út faran, weóll waðuman and hé worde cwæð, Andr. Kmbl. 2561; An. 1282. Tungol beóþ áhýded, gewiten under waþeman westdǽlas on, Exon. Th. 204, 13 ; Ph. 97

Linked entry: waþem

scytere

(n.)
Grammar
scytere, es; m.
Entry preview:

a shooter, an archer. v. scyteres (sciteres) clif, flóde, streám, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 330. [Icel. skytari a shooter.] one that moves swiftly (?) Ad rivulum qui scitere dicitur, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 102, 29. Cf. scytta

égor

(n.)
Grammar
égor, es; m.
Entry preview:

High tide, flood Égur, aegur dodrans, Txts. 57, 702. Égur dodrans, i. malina, Wrt. Voc. ii. 142, 2. Égor dodrans (de-, MS.): detrans, 70, 3. Égores cataclismi, genus fluctus, An. Ox. 7, 159. Eógra, eógora dodrantium, 13, 1

scealfor

(n.)
Entry preview:

Geseah hé scealfran swimman on ánum flóde . . . þá bebeád Martinus þám mǽðleásum scealfrum ꝥ hí geswicon þæs fixnoðes, Hml. S. 31, 1322

eodor-wír

(n.)
Grammar
eodor-wír, es; m.

A wire-enclosurecingulum, sēpiens fīlum mĕtallĭcum

Entry preview:

Grn Ic eom mundbora mínre heorde, eodorwírum fæst I am the protector of my flock, fortified by wire-enclosures, Exon. 105a; Th. 398, 23; Rä. 18, 2

DEÓP

(adj.)
Grammar
DEÓP, dióp; adj.

DEEP, profound, stern, awful, solemn prŏfundus, grăvis, sōlemnis

Entry preview:

Fíftena stód deóp ofer dúnum flód elna the flood stood fifteen ells deep over the hills, Cd. 69; Th. 84, 15; Gen. 1398. Noe oferláþ ðone deópestan drencflóda Noah sailed over the deepest of drowning floods, 161; Th. 200, 29; Exod. 364.

Linked entries: dýp dype dióp

ge-hwyrfan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-hwyrfan, -hwerfan, -hwirfan, -hwierfan; p. de; pp. ed

To changeturnconvertmutareconvertere

Entry preview:

Flód gehwerfde ða ceastre a flood overturned the city, Shrn. 77, 12. Hwylc ðonne géna gehwyrfed byþ quoadusque justitia convertatur in judicium, Ps. Th. 93, 14. Hí gehwyrfde synd conversi sunt, Ps. Spl. 77, 46 : Exon. l0 b; Th. 12, 20; Cri. 188.

hlinian

(v.)

to reclineto lean

Entry preview:

Se ele gewǽtte þone flór þǽre stówe þe hí on hlinedon (incubuerant), Gr. D. 160, 14. Hlioniga (hlinig, L., site, W. S., recumbe) on ðá lætemestu stówwe . . . bið ðé wuldor bifora ðǽm hlingendum (sittendurn, W. S., discumbentibus), Lk.