Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

hæfen-leás

Entry preview:

Take here hafen-leás in Dict. and add : used sub-stantively Þearfa and se hæfenleása (inops) heriaþ þínne naman, Ps. L. 73, 21. For yrmþe hæfenleásra (inopum), ii. 6. Helpað earmum and hæfenleásum, Wlfst. 48, 23. as adjective Þá þe unríce synd and hæfenleáse

Linked entry: hafen-leás

hand-leán

Entry preview:

þonne hé þá handleán hafað and sceáwað, Hy. 2, 7, 12. Cf. hand-gift. Add

hám-leás

Entry preview:

Add: of a place, without a habitation Andlong paðes tó hámleássceagan, C. D. v. 194, 8

grund-leás

Entry preview:

Add: of an earthly pit, gulf, &c. lit. bottomless, whose bottom has not been reached Andlang hagan tó ðám grundeliésan pytte, C. D. v. 148, 10. On ðone grundlǽsan pyt, vi. 41, 23. fig. Ne biþ se ðurst gefylled heora gítsunga, ac seó grundleáse

heáfod-leás

Entry preview:

Se cwellere slóh þone cniht ꝥ hé læg heáfodleás, Hml. S. 12, 208 : Hml. A. 113, 369. Þæs bisceopes líc . . . árás and nam his ágen heáfod þe of áheáwen wæs, and eóde forð . . . his Drihten herigende . . . Ꝥ wæs syllic wundor ꝥ se martyr heáfodleás mihte

horn-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
horn-leás, adj.
Entry preview:

Without horns Gif hé hornleásne oxan geseó, þonne ofercymð hé his fínd, Archiv cxx. 304, 28 ; E. S. 39, 349

lǽþ-leás

Similar entry: láþ-leás

irfe-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
irfe-leás, adj.
Entry preview:

Without live stock

hyge-leás

Entry preview:

Add: of persons, (i) senseless, Gen. 51 (in Dict.). spiritless (f), without courage Be milte wærce . . . tácn ðǽre ádle hú higeleáse hí beóð (cf. the section to which this heading refers: Tácn þǽre ádle hú híwleáse hié beóð . . . þá men beóð mægre and

lícham-leás

Entry preview:

Ða englas hé geworhte . . . enlle líchamleáse lybbende on gáste, Hex. 6, 27. Add

láþ-leás

Entry preview:

Ǽr hé sý láðleás (lǽeth;leás, Ll. Th. i. 164, 17) wið ǽlce hand, Ll. Lbmn. 144, 13. Add

Linked entry: lǽþ-leás

leác-cærse

Entry preview:

Leáccersan, túnc[ersan] nasturcium Wrt. Voc. i. 286, 14. Add

leác-tric

Entry preview:

See leáh-tric

Linked entries: leáh-tric léh-tric

mǽþ-leás

Entry preview:

Bebeád Martínus þám mǽðleásum scealfrum ꝥ hí geswicon þæs fixnoðes, Hml. S. 31, 1322. Add

leás-bregd

Entry preview:

Add: leás-bregda Ne beó þú ná leásbréda oþþe swicol, ac beó sóðfæst and symle getrýwe, Hml. S. 12, 129

Linked entry: brægde

leás-bregdness

Entry preview:

For 'Leo 220, 22' substitute Se sceocca eów lǽrð þyllice scíncræftas ꝥ hé eówre sáwla hæbbe ðonne gé gelýfað his leásbrǽdnysse (-brédene, v. l. ), Hml. S. 17, 107. Mercurius wæs swíðe fácenful and swicol on dǽdum, and lufode stala and leásbrédnysse,

leás-gewita

(n.)
Grammar
leás-gewita, an ; m.
Entry preview:

A false witness Þá leásgewitan lédon heora hacelan ætforan fóturn sumes geonges cnihtes, sé wæs gecíged Saulus, Hml. Th. i. 46, 35

leás-gewitness

Entry preview:

Sume æfter fácne and æfter leásgewitnysse tó sóðre dǽdbóte gecyrrað, Hml. Th. ii. 398, 3. Add

leás-spellung

Entry preview:

Swá heora scopas on heora leóðum giddiende sindon and on heora leá(s)spellengum, Ors. 3, 1 ; S. 94, 29. Add

leás-wyrcend

(n.)
Grammar
leás-wyrcend, es; m.
Entry preview:

A deceiver, a doer of what is false Deófol is yfeltihtend and leáswyrcend, synna ordfruma and sáwla bepǽcend, Hml. Th. i. 102, 1

Linked entry: wyrcend