rysc-bedd
A bed of rushes
Entry preview:
A bed of rushes On ðæt riscbed, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 428, 31
titelung
A giving of the titles or headings
Entry preview:
A giving of the titles or headings Titelung recapitulatio, Hpt. Gl. 433, 72
scrippa
Entry preview:
Of dære díc on ðone midmestan scrippan, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 78, 27
mǽr-stán
A boundary-stone
Entry preview:
On mǽrstán; of mǽrstáne on ðone ealdan gáran, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 438, 28
þorn-rǽw
A row of thorn-bushes
Entry preview:
A row of thorn-bushes On ða þornrǽwe, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 77, 28. On ða ealdan þornrǽwe, 199, 33, 34
Linked entry: Tráci
á-lísness
Entry preview:
redemption, release by payment or otherwise ꝥ weorð his álýsnesse (-lés-, v. l.) pretium suae redemtionis, Bd. 4, 22; Sch. 461, 1. On his álýsnesse æt his feóndum, Ps. Th. 31, arg.
hyge-leást
Entry preview:
Hé ætbréde his líchaman . . . of sprǽce and of higeleáste ( de loquacitate, de scurilitate), 86, 6. ꝥ se man . . . . on ðeáwum hæbbe módes clǽnnysse and forhæfednysse bútan higeleáste (hig-, v. l. ), Hml.
snǽdan
to slice, cut into slices ⬩ to snathe ⬩ to lop, prune, cut branches off trees ⬩ to hew ⬩ trim stones. ⬩ putare ⬩ to cut into slices
Entry preview:
Jamieson gives sned to prune, lop off, sned a branch pruned off.] to lop, prune, cut branches off trees Snédit putat Txts. 117, 249. Sume snéddun telgran of treówum alii caedebant ramos de arboribus Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 21, 8.
iú-wine
Entry preview:
A friend of old or former times Wát his iúwine eorþan forgiefene knows that his friends of old are committed to earth, Exon. 82 b; Th. 311, 15 ; Seef. 92
Linked entry: geó-wine
mid-spreca
One who speaks on behalf of another
Entry preview:
One who speaks on behalf of another Paulus wæs midspreca and bewerigend ðære ealdan ǽ Paul was an advocate and defender of the old law, Homl. Th. i. 388, 32
á-breátan
Entry preview:
The p. t. here given may be taken as an irregular form (on the model of reduplicating verbs, cf. heóf, p. t. of heófan) belonging to á-breótan q. v
Beornica ríce
The kingdom or province of the Bernicians ⬩ regnum vel provincia Berniciorum,
Entry preview:
The kingdom or province of the Bernicians, that part of Northumbria which lies between the river Tees and the Scottish sea or frith; regnum vel provincia Berniciorum, a Tesi ad fretum Scoticum olim pertingens Oswio ðone óðerne dǽl Norþanhymbra ríces
metend
One who measures or metes
Entry preview:
S. gloss seems to be intended as a translation of the title commonly given to Orosius' History, [H]Ormesta Mundi, and is the measurer or describer of the world, i. e. a general history of the world), Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 18
steóp-
Entry preview:
deprived of a relative.
ofer-holt
a forest of spears which rise over the heads of those who bear them
Entry preview:
a forest of spears which rise over the heads of those who bear them(?)
smíte
A foul, miry place
Entry preview:
Ðis is ðære ánre híde landgemǽru tó Smítan . . . of ðæm sló tó Smítan; of ðære Smítan tó berge Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 166, 2-20. Of smítan on ðone stán . . . of ðære apoldran innan smítan v. 105, 13-36
lár-leást
Entry preview:
Lack of learning or instruction Þurh lárleáste hí ne cunnon ne lǽdan ne lǽran hí through want of knowledge they cannot guide or teach them, L. I. P. 19; Th. ii. 326, 28.
irsigend-líc
Entry preview:
There is one part in her capable of desire; a second capable of anger, a third is rational [cf. Bt. 33. 4; Fox 132, 4], Homl. Skt. 1, 97
ge-wis
Entry preview:
Ox. 46, 7. having knowledge of (gen.), cognizant of, acquainted with :-- Ic eom gewis þínra mægena, Lch. i. 326, 4.