niman
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Add Nómun, naamun, noumun (h)auserunt, Txts. 43, 247. to seize, grasp, capture, catch. to get into one's hands by force or artifice, by war, robbery, legal process, &c. Yfelra geréfena þeáw ys ꝥ hí nymað ǽlc wiht, Ll. Lbmn. 476, 9.
hálig
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Th. ii. 432, 15. of animals, not destructive or dangerous, tame cattle us opposed to wild beasts Inc is hálig feoh and wilde deór on geweald geseald, Gen. 201. <b>B</b>. substantival. that which is holy, a holy thing. Cf. <b>A.
licgan
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Genim þás wyrte . . . lege tó þǽre wunde . . . ac ne geþafa ꝥ heó lengc þǽr æt licge þonne hyt þearf sý, Lch. i. 100, 5. not to move; licgende feoh other property than cattle, treasure Þá ( the senators) wǽron binnan Rómebyrg wuniende tó þon þæt hié
heáfod
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Ða sácerdas ne scoldon nó hiera heáfdu scieran mid scierseaxum, Past. 139, 12. in enumeration, as in per head Æt heáfde peninc, Wlfst. 170, 20. in numbering cattle Mid xii heáfdon sceápa, Cht.
gildan
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Gylde ꝥ pound; yrfe ( stolen cattle ), 352, 7. Sé þe óðres mannes man underfó . . . gylde hine þǽm þe hé ǽr folgode, and gesylle þám cynge .cxx. sciłł., 220, 21 : 122, l.
folc-land
the land of the folk or people
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Still less is Blackstone to be credited, when, trusting to Somner, he tells us it was land held in villenage by people in a state of downright servitude, belonging, both they and their children and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle
fón
to take ⬩ catch ⬩ to take ⬩ arrest ⬩ apprehend ⬩ to get ⬩ gain ⬩ to get ⬩ suffer ⬩ experience ⬩ to begin ⬩ to begin ⬩ to take ⬩ to set about ⬩ undertake ⬩ to attack ⬩ to begin at ⬩ to take ⬩ take ⬩ to set to work at ⬩ deal with ⬩ receive ⬩ accept ⬩ to take ⬩ to take ⬩ take possession of ⬩ to take ⬩ to take ⬩ undertake ⬩ to take ⬩ to take to ⬩ allow of ⬩ to take to ⬩ to take to ⬩ join battle ⬩ to join together ⬩ to struggle with
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Ox. 27. 21 to take, catch Hwæt féhst þú on sǽ? . . . wilt þú fón sumne hwæl?. Coll. M. 24, 7, 15. Swá swá man deór oððe fugelas féht, Solil. H. 46, 11. Hý fóð þá wildan hránas mid, Ors. 1; S. 18, 12. Þonne eów fón lysteð leax.