heals-beág
A ring for the neck, necklace ⬩ monile, collare, ⬩ torques
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A ring for the neck, necklace; monile, collare, Beo. Th. 4350; B. 2172
hose-bend
A hose-band, garter
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A hose-band, garter Hosebendas periscelides, Lye: Hpt. Gl. 517
orþanc-bend
A skilfully contrived band
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A skilfully contrived band Bewrigene orþonc-bendum. Exon. Th. 429, 35 ; Rá. 43, 15
hild-bedd
Deathbed
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Deathbed, Andr. Kmbl. 2186; An. 1094
hnut-beám
A nut tree; ⬩ corylus avellana
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A nut tree; corylus avellana Hnutbeám nux velnucarius, Ælfc. Gl. 47; Som. 65, 38; Wrt. Voc. 33, 35. Hnutbeámes rind, L. M. i. 3, 6; Lchdm. ii. 42, 3; 52, 1. Hnutbeámes leáf, Lchdm. iii. 6, 15
beáh-gifa
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Add Æðelstán cyning, beorna beáhgyfa (cf. Egils Saga, 55: Aðalsteinn konungr tók gullhring af hendi sér, ok dró á blóðre-filinn, ok rétti yfir eldinn til Egils.) See also Coll. M. 22, 35 under beáh (3)) Ædelst. 2. Ꝥ him God forgyue . . . and eác swá
beán-belgas
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Of beánbælgum, Lk. L. 15, 16. Þá swín ǽton beánbelgas (-bylgas, -coddas, v. ll.), Gr. D. 106, 31. Add
bearn-eaca
Big with child ⬩ pregnant
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Big with child, pregnant Maria wæs þágyt bearneáca, Hml. Th. i. 30, 9. Ðonne mon sníð ðá bearneácan (praegnantes), wíf Past. 366, 14
bearn-eácen
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Bearneácen wíf praegnans mulier, Gr. D.261, 10. Wíf þæt sý bearneácen, and heó cenne cniht, Wlfst. 2, 20. Gif wíf biþ bearneácen (four months gone with child), feówer mónoð Lch. iii. 144, 19. Witan on bearneácenum wífe hwæþeres cynnes bearn heó cennan
beard-leás
hawk ⬩ buzzard'
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Dele: 'also a hawk or buzzard'; and add Beardleás inpubis, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 56, 2. Beardleáses effebi, Wrt. Voc. ii. 31, 54. Beardleásum rince effebo hircitallo, An. Ox. 4, 57. Beardleásne effebum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 16. Beardleáse inuestes, An. Ox. 16, 2
bearn-myrþra
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Ðider sculan wiccan and bearnmyrðran, Wlfst. 115, 1. Hér syndan myltestran and bearnmyrðran, 165, 33. Add
beáw-hyrnet
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Dele, and see preceding word
beorn
burned
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burned Beo. Th. 3764, note; B. 1880;
bétan
to make better, to improve, amend, repair, restore ⬩ emendare, reparare, reficere, mederi, expiare ⬩ to mend ⬩ repair a fire ⬩ to light ⬩ make a fire, to kindle ⬩ focum reparare ⬩ to remedy, compensate, make amends ⬩ compensare
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to make better, to improve, amend, repair, restore; emendare, reparare, reficere, mederi, expiare Ðæt he bétte that he should improve, Bd. 5, 13; S. 632, 11: Ex. 21, 22. Hú ðú meaht ðíne æceras bétan how thou mayest improve thy fields, Lchdm. i. 398,
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freó-bearn-fæder
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Dele, and see preceding word
BET
BETTER ⬩ melius
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BETTER; melius Ðá acsode he, to hwylcum tíman him bet wǽre interrogabat ergo horam ab eis in qua melius habuerit, Jn. Bos. 4, 52. Ðæt se hwǽte mǽge ðý bet weaxan that the wheat may grow the better, Bt. 23; Fox 78, 24. Hwonne his horse bett wurde till
Bede-ford-scír
Bedfordshire
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Bedfordshire, Chr. 1011; Th. 266, 5, col. 1
freó-bearn-fæder
A father of noble children ⬩ nōbĭlium fīliōrum păter
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A father of noble children; nōbĭlium fīliōrum păter.Cd. 163; Th. 206,1; Exod. 445
bed
a bed ⬩ couch ⬩ a surface on which something rests?
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Add: a bed, couch Bedd, bed culcites, Txts. 50, 243. Bed culcites, culcitatum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 52, 53. Wolde beddes neósan gamela Scylding, B. 1791: Jud. 63. Bedde culcita, Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 14. Ic árás of mínon bedde (lectulo), Coll. M. 33, 23. Swalt
béne
a prayer
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a prayer