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Anglo-Saxon

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fíf-fétede

(adj.)
Grammar
fíf-fétede, adj.
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Having five feet (of a verse) Mid fíffétedum brachicatalectico, An. Ox. 130

Linked entry: -fétede

flot-lic

(adj.)
Grammar
flot-lic, adj.

naval

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Of a fleet, naval Flotlicnm, sciplicum classicis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 63

for-gilpan

(v.)
Grammar
for-gilpan, pp. -golpen

To boast of

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To boast of Ne récð God þǽre forgolpenan ælmessan, Wlfst. 234, 16

Linked entry: gilpan

ge-þeódlic

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-þeódlic, adj.
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Of comrades, social Geþeódlicre geférrǽdenne contubernali sodalitate, Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 21

Linked entry: þeódlic

gold-fæt

Entry preview:

Add: Ph. 303 (given under gold-fæt a plate of gold) and

ge-wring

Grammar
ge-wring, ge-wryng ?.
Entry preview:

Stór þe bið of gewringe stacten, Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 28. Add

hæsel-rǽw

(n.)
Grammar
hæsel-rǽw, e; f.
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A row of hazels On ðá hæselrǽwe, C. D. iii. 77, 4

gold-wecg

(n.)
Grammar
gold-wecg, es; m.
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A lump of gold Goldwecg (-wecd, MS.) auri metallum, An. Ox. 451

Linked entry: gold-óra

grammatisc

(adj.)
Grammar
grammatisc, adj.
Entry preview:

Grammatical, of grammar In gramatiscne cræft, Bd. 4, 2; Sch. 344, 19

Linked entry: gramatisc

hirwing

(n.)
Grammar
hirwing, e; f.

Evil-speaking ⬩ blasphemy

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Evil-speaking, blasphemy Of heortan manna ... forðstæppað ... hyrwincga (blasphemia), Scint. 137, 12

heorotbremel-leáf

(n.)
Grammar
heorotbremel-leáf, es; n.
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A leaf of the buckthorn Cnúa heorot-brénibelleáf. Lch. ii. 332, 6

Linked entry: heorot-brembel

hyrnen

(adj.)
Grammar
hyrnen, adj.
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Full of corners Hyrnynum angulosis. An. Ox. 7, 20. Cf. hyrn-full

lungen-ǽder

(n.)
Grammar
lungen-ǽder, e; f.
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A lung-vein Lǽt him of lungenǽdre blód. Lch. ii. 106, 24

líc-burg

(n.)
Grammar
líc-burg, e; f.
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A city of the dead, a cemetery: — Lícburg cimiterium, Txts. 51, 472

lifer-seócness

(n.)
Grammar
lifer-seócness, e; f.
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Disease of the liver Wið liferseócnysse, Lch. i. 286, 24 : 304, 9

métan

(v.)
Grammar
métan, to paint.
Entry preview:

Wercað hió of weaxe . . . mgtað Fenix, E. S. viii. 478, 50. Add

nyhtsum-ness

(n.)
Grammar
nyhtsum-ness, e; f.
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Abundance Of nihtsumnesse (abundantia) blisse gesibsum mann byð oncnáwen, Scint. 11, 13

pund-fald

(n.)
Grammar
pund-fald, a
Entry preview:

pinfold On hacan pundfald; of hacan pundfalde, C. D. vi. 41, 24

Linked entry: pyndan

scripp

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Dele, the MSS. of Hml. Th. i. 394, 7 have scip, scipp

ýr

(n.)
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a horn. (? For this explanation of the word see Anglia xxxv. 175. )

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