sang
song, singing ⬩ a singing, chanting ⬩ song, poetry, ⬩ a song ⬩ a poem
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Wuldres weard wordum herigaþ þegnas ... þǽr is sang æt selde, Cd. Th. 306, 12; Sat. 663. Dǽr wæs sang and swég samod ætgædere ... gomenwudu gréted, gid oft wrecen, Beo. Th. 2130; B. 1063: 180; B. 90.
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CWELAN
To die ⬩ mori
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L.] ǽlc eorþlíc líchama gyf he byþ ðære lyfte bedǽled as fishes die if they are out of water, so also every earthly body dies if it be deprived of the air, Bd. de nat. rerum ; Wrt. popl. science 17, 9-11; Lchdm. iii. 272, 25, and note 36
for-bryttan
To break in pieces ⬩ smash ⬩ bruise ⬩ crush ⬩ confringtĕre ⬩ contĕrĕre ⬩ conquassāre
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Ǽlc ðe fylþ ofer ðone stán, byþ forbryt omnis, qui cecĭdĕrit super illum lăpĭdem, conquassābĭtur. Lk. Bos. 20, 18
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midde
The middle
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On æge biþ gioleca on middan, Bt. Met. Fox 20, 339; Met. 20, 170
unfriþ-scip
a ship which is carrying on hostilities ⬩ a ship belonging to a hostile country
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a ship which is carrying on hostilities Ðam cynge com word ðæt unnfriðscipa lǽgen be westan and hergodon, Chr. 1046; Erl. 173, 5. a ship belonging to a hostile country Ǽlc ceápscip frið hæbbe ðe binnan múðan cuman(-e?)
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dæg-hwámlíce
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Ǽne ðrowade Críst ðurh hine sylfne, ac dæghwomlíce bið his þrowung geedníwod þurh gerýnu þæs húsles, Hml. Th. ii. 276, 10. Dæghwonlíce, i. 44, 20: 46, 18. Dæghuǽmlíce, Rtl. 75, 5. Add
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penn
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Upp on épenn; of ðám penne on heán æsc, 456, 4. Andlang ðǽra heáfda on etta penn, 25, 21. Usque strétpen, 448, 19
tó-cwísan
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Feól se stǽnene wáh uppan þæs stuntan rǽdboran ꝥ hé (hí) æll tócwýsde the stone wall fell upon the stupid fellow's counsellors, so that it crushed them all to bits, Hml S. 8, 173
út-lendisc
Outlandish ⬩ foreign ⬩ a stranger
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Hig noldon ðæt útlendiscum þeódum wǽre ðes eard þurh ðæt ðe swíðor gerýmed ðe hí heom sylfe ǽlc óðerne forfóre, Chr. 1052; Erl. 184, 31. Hé útlændisce hider in tihte, 959; Erl. 121, 3
forþ-fæderas
Fathers
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Add: Fathers. in a natural sense Eówere forðfæderas ( patres uestri, Jn. 6, 58 ) ǽton þone heofonlican mete, Hml. Th. ii. 266, 30: i. 558, 20. Heora heortan gerihtlǽcan mid heora fórðfædera gebysnunge ( v. Acts, c. 7 ), 46, 9.
LIFIAN
To LIVE
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Sume forlǽtaþ ða hig ǽr hæfdon and be lifiendre cwenan eft óðre nimaþ some leave the wives they had before, and while the wife is still living, take another, Wulfst. 269, 23. Sum ðéh hé forlǽte ða hé ǽr hæfde, hé be lifiendre ðære eft óðere nimþ, L.
sunne
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Ǽr sunne tó setle code, Ex. 17, 12. Sunne setlgonges fús, Exon. Th. 174, 33; Gú. 1187. Sóna swá seó sunne sealte streámas heá oferhlifaþ, 206, 1; Ph. 120. Sunne gewát tó sete glídan, Andr. Kmbl. 2609; An. 1306.
mǽþ
Math in after-math ⬩ mowing ⬩ hay-harvest
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ǽne tó mǽþe and óðre síþe tó rípe free from every secular service except three things; one is church scot, and (the other two) that he [work] with all his might twice a-year, once at hay-harvest, the other time at corn-harvest, Cod. Dip.
syn-líc
Sinful
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Sinful Hé sceal scyldan cristenum mannum wið ǽlc ðara þinga ðe synlíc biþ, L. I. P. 7; Th. ii. 312, 24. Anbúgan tó nánum fúllícum and synlícum luste, Past. 14; Swt. 83, 15. Fyrenlusta and synlícra dǽda á má and má, Wulfst. 56, 7.
un-mǽþlíce
immoderately ⬩ out of measure ⬩ inhumanely
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Ǽlc læhte of óðrum ðone mete of ðam múðe swíðe unmægðlíce, Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 11
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weorold-gilp
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Largitas . . . ðæt is ðæt man wíslíce his ǽhta áspende, ná for woruld-gylpe, Homl. Skt. i. 16, 327, 330
rýan
To roar, rage
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ǽlc folc quare fremuerunt gentes? Ps. Th. 2, 1.
stund
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Æt stunda gehwam, 436, 30; Rä. 55, 9. the hour appointed for a particular act, the signal which marks the hour Geendedum gebedum sí swéged óþer tácn ł stund finitis orationibus sonetur secundum signum, Anglia xiii. 380, 215.
ge-leáfa
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Hý him sylfum séllan þúhton þonne Críst; gelugon hý him æt þám geleáfan, Hy. 4, 56. Þá men þá þe Godes ríces geleáfan habbað the men who believe in God's kingdom, Bl. H. 55, 17; 77, 4.
ge-rihtan
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Ðas béc hé sceal néde habban, gif hé wyle þám folce æfter rihte wísigan, . . . and beó hé æt þám wær ꝥ hí beón wel gerihte, Ll. Th. ii. 350, 18. to order to be given, assign Wíse worldwitan Críste and cyninge gerihtan þá bóte, Ll.