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hédd-ern

Grammar
hédd-ern, hýdd-ern, es; n.

A storehouse

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Besceáwiaþ ða hrefnas ðæt hig ne sáwaþ ne ne rípaþ nabbaþ hig héddern ne bern considerate corbos quia non seminant neque metunt quibus non est cellarium neque horreum, Lk. Skt. 12, 24.

Linked entry: hýdd-ern

spearwa

(n.)
Grammar
spearwa, an; m.

A sparrow

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Kmbl. 10, 29, 31: Lk. Skt. 12, 6. Beteran manegum spearwum, 12, 7

Linked entry: spear-lira

tó-swellan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-swellan, pp. -swollen

To swell outgrow big

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Th. i. 86, ll

CÝÐAN

(v.)
Grammar
CÝÐAN, p. ic, he cýðde, cýdde, ðú cýðdest, cýddest; pp. cýðed .

to make known, tell, relate, proclaim, announcenuntiare, annuntiare, narrare, referre, effari, prædicare to declare, reveal, manifest, shew, perform, confess, confirm, testify, prove notum facere, revelare, manifestare, ostendere, perhibere, confiteri, testari, probare

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Cýðe his neáhgebúrum let him tell to his neighbours, L. Edg.

Linked entry: ge-cýðan

lama

(adj.)
Grammar
lama, loma, lame; adj.

Lamemaimedcrippledweakparalysedpalsiedparalytic

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Ðá læg ðǽr sum creópere lama fram cildháde then lay there a cripple lame from his childhood, Homl. Skt. 10, 25. Ánne bædrydan for eahte geárum lama a bedridden man paralysed for eight years, 42.

cild

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Hé unborenum cildum líf sylð, Hml. S. 23, 429. Gesceád wexð on cildrum, 1, 110. Cild parvulos, Ps. Srt. 114, 6. Cild (cildo, L., cild. R.) infantes, Lk. 18, 15. as a title of dignity Eádríc cild, Chr. 1067; P. 200, 35 (see note, vol. ii. p. 259).

ge-bann

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L. 128: Wlfst. 137, 24.

ge-bedda

(n.)
Grammar
ge-bedda, . . . an ; f.
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Eádgár cyning þá his gebeddan betǽhte, Lch. iii. 440, 15. Gif hé wið þæs cyninges gebeddan (conjuge) hǽmde, Ll. Th. ii. 188, 25. Tó onfóanne gebede ðín accipere conjugem tuam, Mt. L. l, 20. Gebed, 24.

ge-brecan

(v.)
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Voc. ii. 33, 9. lit. to break. without sense of injury Mið ðý onféng hláf and gebræcg (fregif), Lk. L. 22, 19: 24, 30. Gebrægc, Mk.

oxa

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Né untígð eówer ǽlc on restedæge his oxan (oxo, R. woxo, L. bouuem suum), Lk. L. 13, 15. .xii. þeówe men and .ii. gesylhðe oxan, C. D. iv. 263, 20. Mon selle him tó ðém londe .iiii. oxan, .ii. cý, and .L. scépa, and ǽnne horn, i. 310, 13: 27.

CYN

(n.)
Grammar
CYN, cynn,es; n.

every being of one kind, a kindred, kind, race, nation, people, tribe, family, lineage, generation, progeny, KIN genus, gens, natio, populus, stirps, tribus, familia, natales, origo, generatio, proles, progeniesGender genus a sex sexus

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The m. f. n. occur in the following sentence, indicated by the articles se, seó, ðæt Seó sáwel ys má ðonne se líchama, and se líchama má ðonne ðæt reáf anima plus est guam esca, et corpus plus quam vestimentum, Lk.

wer-gild

(n.)
Grammar
wer-gild, were-gild, es; n. [The word seems interchangeable with wer (q. v.), which in the later laws is the more frequent form.]
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Gylde ðam cyninge be his weregilde (wer-, v. l. ), L. C. S. 67; Th. i. 410, 17.

a-lǽtan

(v.)
Grammar
a-lǽtan, a-létan; p. -lét, pl. -léton; pp. -lǽten; v. a. [a from, lǽtan to let]

To let golay downleavegive uploserenounceresignremitpardondeliversinereabjiceredeponererelinquereremitterecondonarerelaxareliberare

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To let go, lay down, leave, give up, lose, renounce, resign, remit, pardon, deliver; sinere, abjicere, deponere, relinquere, remittere, condonare, relaxare, liberare Ðæt ðú ne alǽte dóm gedreósan that thou wouldest not let thy greatness sink, Beo.

niþer

(adv.)
Grammar
niþer, adv.

Downbeneathbelow

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Ðæt hí hine nyþer bescufon ut praecipitarint eum, Lk. Skt. 4, 29. Se ðe nyþer com of heofonum qui descendit de caelo, Jn. Skt. 3, 13. Ðú niþer færst ( descendes ) óþ helle, Mt. Kmbl. 11, 23. Niþer feallaþ procident, Ps. Lamb. 71, 9 : 94, 6.

Linked entry: nieþer

stíþness

(n.)
Grammar
stíþness, e ; f.
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<b>Ia.</b> fig. hardness of heart :-- Stíðnise heartes duritiam cordis, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 19, 8. firmness, constancy Ða hnescan vel wácmód, ðæt synd ða ðe náne stíðnysse nabbaþ ongeán leahtras, Homl.

carian

(v.)
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Riht is ꝥ abbodas nǽfre ymbe woruldcara ne ídele prýda ne carian tó swýðe, Ll. Th. ii. 320, 35

ge-manigfildan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-manigfildan, ge-manigfealdan; p. de.
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Take here <b>ge-mænigfyldan</b> in Dict. and add: To multiply, to make numerous Þú woldest mÍnne ofspring gemenigfyldan swá sǽceosol þe nán man átellan ne mæg, Gen. 32, 12.

ginian

(v.)
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Take here <b>geonian</b> in Dict., and add Geongendi oscitantes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 75. Þá giniendan hiulcas, 42, 49. of living creatures. to open the mouth; of the mouth, to be open Geonath, ginath battat, batat, Txts. 43, 269.

hóp

(n.)
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Substitute: <b>hop</b>, es; n. A piece of raised or enclosed land in the midst of fen, marsh, or waste land, a hope (v. N. E. D. s. v.) Mǽdwǽgan hop, C. D. vi. 243, 14. Perhaps in the gloss fennegan hopu stagnosa ligustra (An.

innoþ

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<b>II a.</b> the intestines, bowels :-- Him eóde se innoð (cf. eall his innewearde, Hml. Th. i. 290, 19) út æt his forðgange, Hml. S. 16, 207. Wiþ innoþes forhæfdnesse, Lch. ii. 174, 3.