ge-writ
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Mid gewritum testamento, Ors. 5, 13; S. 244, 23. Áht þæs þe on úrum gewritum stent anything in our (Athelstan's) regulations, Ll. Th. i. 236, 32: 240, 18. Wríte man manega gewrita be þissum, Ll.
hrind
barky ⬩ rinded ⬩ caudex ⬩ codex ⬩ liber ⬩ cortex ⬩ frozen to death ⬩ to destroy ⬩ dead
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Might hrinde = hringde in the sense placed in a ring or circle, so that hrinde bearwas would be the trees placed round or encircling the mere?
wara
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The forms are united with common nouns, v. burh-, ceaster-, eorþ-, hell-, heofon-waran, -ware; or with proper names, native or foreign, e. g. Lunden-, Róm-waran, -ware, Bæx-warena land (cf. Bex-leá, 13), Cod. Dip.
Linked entry: -waru
forþmest
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First, of order in place or time Swelc in endebrednise forðmest ł ǽrest ( primus) geseted is godspell ǽrest ł forðmest (primus ) áwrát, Mt. p. 12, 8. Cuoæð ðǽm forðmesto ( primo ), Lk. L. 16, 5.
CLÚS
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He fram ðære clúsan afaren wæs wið ðara scipa he was gone from the pass towards the ships, Ors. 6, 36; Bos. 131, 26, 22. Ðá hæfdon hý heora clúsan belocene when they had closed their passes, 3, 7; Bos. 60, 4.
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cwelman
To torture, torment, destroy, kill ⬩ trucidare, cruciare
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He wæs ðæt folc cwilmende he tortured the people, Ors. 1, 12 ; Bos. 36, 25. He eorþ-cyningas yrmde and cwelmde he oppressed and slew the kings of the earth, Bt. Met. Fox 9, 94; Met. 9, 47.
FEARR
a bull, an ox ⬩ taurus, bos ⬩ the Bull, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac ⬩ taurus
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He geworhte ánes fearres anlícnesse of áre he made an image of a bull with brass, Ors. 1, 12; Bos. 36, 29. Fearras fætte ofsettun oððe ymbsǽton me tauri pingues obsēdērunt me, Ps. Lamb. 21, 13: Mt. Bos. 22, 4.
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ful-fremman
To fulfil ⬩ perfect ⬩ practise ⬩ perfĭcĕre
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Of múþe cildra and súcendra ðú fulfremedest lof ex ōre infantium et lactentium perfēcisti laudem, Ps. Lamb. 8, 3: Ps. Spl. 39, 9. Heáhsetl his [biþ] swá swá móna fulfremed on écnysse thrŏnus ejus [erit] sīcut lūna perfecta in æternum, Ps.
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módig-ness
Pride ⬩ Highmindedness ⬩ magnanimity ⬩ greatness of mind which does not resent injury
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[Þatt wǽre modiȝnesse & idell ȝellp, Orm. 12040: stiȝþ on heh þurh modinesse, O. and N. 1405.]
god-gild
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He heora godgieldum eallum wiðsóc he renounced all their idols, Ors. 2, 5; Swt. 78, 4. Hí on Choreb cealf ongunnan him to godegylde georne wyrcean fecerunt vitulum in Choreb, et adoraverunt sculptile, Ps. Th. 105, 17
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ge-hreósan
To rush ⬩ fall ⬩ glide away ⬩ to fail ⬩ ruere ⬩ cadere ⬩ labi ⬩ deficere
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Ic ðus gehroren eom and aweg gewiten I [Babylon] am thus fallen and passed away, Ors. 2, 4; Bos. 44, 35. Móna niðer gehreóseþ the moon shall fall down, Exon. 21 b; Th. 58, 22; Cri. 939.
ge-lácnian
To heal ⬩ cure ⬩ sānāre ⬩ mĕdēri
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He wæs gelácnod he was cured, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 61, 44. Mon geseah hine laman gelácnian people saw him healing the lame, Blickl. Homl. 177, 16. Hine gelácnode curam ejus egit, Lk. Skt. 10, 34, note
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ge-meltan
To melt, digest
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On hyre bryne gemultan ealle ða anlícnessa togædere in its burning all the statues melted together, Ors. 5, 2; Bos. 101, 21. Eorðe is gemolten liquefacta est terra, Ps. Th. 74, 3. Me wearþ gemolten mód on hreðre defectio animo tenuit me, 118, 53
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þæslíce
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Hié ðæt gewinn ðá þæslícost angunnan ðe hí hit ǽr ne angunnen they began the contest then just as if they had never begun it before; sic quasi ex integro nova bella nascuntur, Ors. 3, 11; Swt. 150, 31. suitably, fitly, meetly Se dǽdbóte þæslíce déþ se
á-bídan
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Maximus mid firde bad (ábád, v. l.) æt Aquilegia Aquileiae Maximus insederat Ors. 6, 36; S. 292, 25. Hé forlét his here ábídan mid Scottum, Chr. P. p. 5, 6.
be-sencan
To plunge ⬩ submerge ⬩ drown
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Hé xiii scipa on sǽbesencte, Ors. 4, 6 ; S. 172, 10. God besencte Pharao, Hml. Th. i. 312, 5. Wé besencton obsorbuimus. Bl. Gl. Hí hine besencton on þá eá æt his cneówa, Bl. H. 43, 29. Besencean oþþe gecwylman mergere aut mortificare, Coll.
bréme
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Hié Rómána brémuste wǽron tó ðǽm cyninge they were most illustrious of the Romans after the king, Ors. 2, 2 ; S. 66, 32. Add
dirne
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Th. i. 56, 26. of stolen goods, concealed Ǽnigne þára þe ymbe þás smeágunge bið and ꝥ dyrne orf ámeldað, Ll. Th. i. 276, 33. v. following compounds; in some cases the passages given under them may belong to the simple adjective
eást-ende
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Asia ongén ðǽm middeldǽle on þám eástende Asia ad mediam frontem orientis, Ors. 1, 1; S. 10, 6. On ðǽm eástende þisses middangeardes orientem, 3, 9; S. 128, 33.
fersc
fresh ⬩ fresh ⬩ fresh
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Add: of water. fresh as opposed to salt Þǽr sint swíðe micle meras fersce, Ors. 1, 1; S. 19, 5. fresh as opposed to stagnant Wé æfter ferscum wætre hié frinon . . . hié cwǽdon ꝥ wé fundon sumne swíðe micelne mere in þǽm wǽre fersc wæter and swéte genóg