ge-scot
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</b> rapid movement of a missile, flight of an arrow :-- Þá wǽmna flugon mid swiftum gesceote on heora fínd, Jud. Thw. 162, 8. a part of a building shut off from the rest, chancel Gesceot cancella, Wrt. Voc. ii. 128, 8.
beátan
to beat with (mid) ⬩ to beat on ⬩ To beat on
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Ox. 16. where the place of the blow is given:-- Hé beót Libertinum on ꝥ heáfod and on þá ansýne Gr. D. 20, 29. of things Beátendes hameres tundentis mallei, An. Ox. 480. Beátendra slecgea tundentium malleorum, Coll.
pæþ
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Snaca on wege and nǽddre on pæðe coluber in via, cerastes in semita, Wlfst. 192, 21. On ðone gréne pæð; of ðám paðe, C. D. iv. 98, 23. On þone smalan pæþ, of þám smalan pæþ, C. D. B. iii. 468, 15. Ofer herepað ðæt onsticelan pað, C. D. iii. 403, 18
éþel
fatherland
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Wǽron gesóme þá þe swegl buán, wuldres éðel, Gen. 83. of hell Atolan éðles, Sat. 327. Ic móste in þeossum atolan oeðele gebídan, 108. used in poetry of the sea as the home of fishes or birds Fisces éðel, Dóm. 39. Ofer hwæles éðel.
hwít
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Hwítes seolfres (cf. reád as an epithet of gold ), Jos. 7, 21. Dó on hwít sealt, Lch. ii. 94, 8 : 124, 10. <b>II a.
a-þringan
to throng or press out or forth ⬩ to urge out ⬩ to urge ⬩ to throng or press away or out of sight ⬩ to conceal ⬩ extrudere ⬩ celare ⬩ to rush forth ⬩ to rush ⬩ prorumpere
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to throng or press out or forth, to urge out, to urge, to throng or press away or out of sight, to conceal; extrudere, celare Ne mihte ic of ðære heortan heardne aþringan stýlenne stán I could not press out from his heart the hard and steely stone, Salm
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undern
The third hour of the day ⬩ nine in the morning
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Ǽr undern ... ofer undern mane ... vespere, Lev. 6, 20. On ða þriddan tíd dæges, ðæt is on undern, Shrn. 79. 35. Wé étaþ on ðam Sunnandagum on undern and on ǽfen, Homl. Skt. i. 12, 3.
deáþ
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Ox. 11, 107. Deáðe orco, Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 69. state of being dead Seó hefige byrþen siteþ on þǽm deádan líchoman þǽre byrgenne and þæs deáþes, Bl. H. 75, 8. Hé of deáþe áríseþ, 15, 12: 67, 25. Swylce wé on deáðe lágon, Hml. S. 11, 240.
cræftig
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Ox. 56, 208. <b>III a.</b> of books, dealing with art or science :-- Munecas þe heora cildhád habbað ábisgod on cræftigum bócum, Angl. viii. 321, 27
wulf-pytt
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On wulfputt; of þám pytte on ðá wógan ǽc, iii. 113, 31. Tó ðǽm wulfpyttæ, C. D. v. 84, 17. On ðone wulfpyt; of ðám wulfpytte, iv. 49, 7: 157, ii. Tó wulfpyttan, 343. 23 : iii. 434. 18
mǽr-pol
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a boundary pool Andlang streámes ðæt on mǽrpól; ðonne of ðǽm póle on beánbróc, C. D. v. 198, 31
for-fón
to take away ⬩ to seize ⬩ to anticipate
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(the prosecutor shall not (or shall) have what is due to him from the fugitive forfeited on account of the injury done to the fugitive while entitled to the benefits of asylum).
dirne
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Ox. 4215. Dyrnum pricelsum clandestinis stimulis, 4655. Of dymmum díglum vel of dyrnum de latebrosis recessibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 56. secret (so as to escape detection), of adultery Hé bið diernes gelíres scyldig, Past. 143, 2.
stigel-hamm
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On stigel*-*hammas; of stigealhammum on wígferðes leáge, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 289, 2
burg-wille
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Onlong bróces ðæt on burhwellan, of burhwellan on ðá burhwalles, C.D. iii. 394, 28
crístelmǽl-beám
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A tree on which a cross is fixed(?) On crístelmǽlbeám ( in a list of boundaries ), C. D. v. 389, 13
ge-wyrd
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Ox.
Brunan burh
Brunanburh, about five miles south-west of Durham, or on the plain between the river Tyne and the Browney,
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Round the banner of Athelstan were ranged one hundred thousand Englishmen, and before them was the whole power of Scotland, of Wales, of Cumberland, and of Ireland under Anlaf, king of Dublin, led on by sixty thousand Northmen.
æt-styntan
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S. 16, 3. to make inactive or ineffective Hé ætstynte, gedrehte elideret (favorabile praeconium ). An. Ox. 2779. Móð ætstentan animum retundi , Hy. S. 70, 19. [Etstunten þe strencþe of mine swenges, Marh. 15. Þat ufel wes atstunt. Lay. 31903.]
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un-leás
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Add: of a person or statement, veracious Unleásere non fictę, i. mendacis (ueritatis), An. Ox. 3955. Þæt ic ongæt be Theophania . . . swá swá mé cýðdon hit manige unleáse men quod de Theophanio multis attestantibus agnovi, Gr. D. 301, 17.