fore-spræc
advocacy ⬩ excuse ⬩ preliminary speech ⬩ a preface ⬩ prologue
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L. 15, 22. speech by the representative of another, what is said by a sponsor Ðeáh þæt cild sprecan ne mage þonne hit man fullað, his freónda foresprǽc (forspǽc, v. l.) forstent him eall þæt ylce þe hit sylf sprǽce, Wlfst. 110, 4: 38, 16. what has been
lác
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Gán mid láce tó Godes húse, and beran þæt cild forð mid þǽre láce, 134, 22. ꝥ Ðá lác beóð God ealra andfengeost, Past. 222, 21. Freó láca oblationes, Ps. L. 50, 21. Ic hatige þá lác þe bióð on wóh gereáfodu. ...
on-hyrian
To imitate, emulate
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Ða cild onhyriaþ ealdum monnum, 36, 5; Fox 180, 10. Ðonne wé onhyrigaþ Criste, Past. 51; Swt. 397, 1. Ðæt hý ne onhyredon ðǽm yfelwillendum, Ps. Th. 36, arg. Ne onhyre ( emulatus fueris ) ðam ðe byþ orsorh, 36, 7. Onhyriaþ, 36, 1.
DARU
Hurt, harm, damage ⬩ damnum, noxa
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Ne astrece ðú ðíne hand búfon ðam cilde, ne him náne ðare ne gedó stretch thou not thine hand over thy son, nor do him any harm, Homl. Th. ii. 60, 35. Búton ǽlcere dare without any hurt, i. 102, 8.
trog
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Man sceal habban trogas, Anglia xiii. 264, 14. v. wín-trog. a trough-shaped thing, a cradle, a boat Cilda trog conabulum, Txts. 51, 492. Cf. ciltrog cune, 115, 154.
drohtnian
To converse, dwell or keep company with, pass life, live ⬩ versāri, conversāri, dēgĕre, vitam ăgĕre
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Cild ic eom under gyrde drohtniende puer sum sub virga dēgens, Coll. Monast. Th. 34, 23. Wæs he on his geférscipe drohtiende in clero illius conversātus, Bd. 5, 6; S. 618, 28.
cúþ
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Hí ácwellað heora cild . . . ꝥ hí cúðe ne beón, ne heora forligr ámeldod ne wurðe, Hml. S. 17, 152. Cúð conpertum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 21, 45. Hwæt is cúðost mannum tó witanne? Nis nǽnigum men nánwiht swá cúð swá hé sceal deáð þrowian, Sal. K. 188, 3-5.
folc-lic
public ⬩ national ⬩ common ⬩ general ⬩ public ⬩ plebeian ⬩ common ⬩ common ⬩ populous
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S. 31, 40. like the common people, common, without distinction or excellence: Móna se þrí and twéntigoða cild ácenned folclic, Lch. iii. 194, 22.
hyhtan
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Nóht on ðec hyhtendo nihil in te sperantes, 35. to entertain feelings of joy, to exult ꝥ cild onsprang and ongeán his Hláford hyhte (cf. exultauit in gaudio infans. Lk. I. 44), Bl H. 165, 29. Hyhton nú and blissian eall geleáffull folc, 91, 6.
irþling
a husbandman ⬩ farmer ⬩ ploughman ⬩ a cuckoo
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Móna se twentigoþa cild ácenned yrplincg a child born on the twentieth day of the moon will be a husbandman, Lchdm. iii. 194, 6. Hwæt sægest ðú Yrþlingc quid dicis tu, Arator? Coll. Monast. Th. 19, 11.
raðe
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Swá ðæt cild raðost ǽnig þing specan mǽge as soon as ever the child can speak, Wulfst. 39, 8. Ðonne mágon wé hí swá raðosð ( in the quickest manner possible ) tó ryhte gecierran, Past. 32; Swt. 209, 21
for-faran
To perish ⬩ To destroy ⬩ to blockade
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Gif hǽðen cild binnon .ix. nihton þurh gímelíste forfaren sí if a child die and be lost, because through carelessness it is not baptized within nine days after birth, and so dies a heathen, Ll. Th. ii. 292, 7.
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heord-rǽden
watching over ⬩ a guard ⬩ watch
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Sýn þá cild á behealdene mid steóre and mid mycelre heordrǽdenne ǽghwǽr pueri parvi ubicumque custodiam habeant, 117, II. Heordrǽdene, R. Ben. I. 106, 12. Mid ealre heordrǽdenne (custodia) geheald heortan þíne (keep eny heart with all diligence.
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bredan
to weave, BRAID, knit, join together, draw, pluck; ⬩ plectere, nectere, vibrare, gladium stringere ⬩ to change, vary, transform; ⬩ vertere, variare, transformare
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Hǽðen cild biþ gefullod, ac hit ne bret ná his hiw wiðútan, ðeáh ðe hit beo wiðinnan awend a heathen child is baptized, but it varies not its aspect without, although it be changed within, Homl. Th. ii. 268, 30
hǽte
Heat ⬩ brewing
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Heat Cíle and hǽte ne geswícaþ frigus et æstus non requiescent, Gen. 8, 22. Ðá ðá seó hǽte com ðá forscranc hit when the heat came then it withered away, Homl. Th. ii. 90, 30. On ðære hǽtan ðæs dæges in the heat of the day, Gen. 18, 1 : Mt.
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ge-sund
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Add: sound, without flaw or defect. of persons, in good health Sum móder bær hire sámcuce cild . . . hé cwæð þæt hire cild gesund beón sceolde, Hml. Th. ii. 150, - 19. Hé eóde cucu and gesund intó his byrgene, i. 74, 25.
lytel
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Of múðe ðára lytla (cildra. R. cilda, W. S. infantium ), 21, 16. Búta wífum and lytlum ł cildum (cnehtum, R.) exceptis mulieribus et parvulis, 14, 21: 15, 38. Forlétas ðá lytlo (þá cild, R. ), 19, 14. Bróhton tó him lytle (lytlo cild, L. ), Mk.
bærnett
burning ⬩ cauterizing ⬩ a burn ⬩ burning heat ⬩ consuming by fire
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Ben. 52, 13. of the effect of cold:-- Wið cile bærnettes frigore exustis, Lch. l. 228, 23. a burn Wæs þæt bærnet þe hé gelæhte æt ðám were on his sculdre gesewen, Hml. Th. ii. 346, 25.
freóls-tíd
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Tó dæg Godes gelaðung mǽrsað þǽra eádigra cildra freólstíde ( natale innocentium infantum ), Hml. Th. i. 76, 28. Hú dægredsangas on freólstídum tó healdenne sýn qualiter matutinorum sollempnitas agatur, R. Ben. 36, 9.
scegð-mann
A member of the crew of a scegð, a Dane, a pirate
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A member of the crew of a scegð, a Dane, a pirate Wícing vel scegðman pirata vel piraticus vel cilix, Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 59. Wícing oððe scegðman (scægð-, scǽð-, sceigð-) pirata, Ælfc. Gr. 7; Zup. 24, 9.