Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

un-ceás

(n.)
Grammar
un-ceás, -ceást, es (but ceás and ceást are both fem.)

Absence of quarrelinhostility

Entry preview:

H.) áð the kinsmen of the dead man shall swear to the slayer an oath that they will have no quarrel with him, L. M. 35; Th. i. 124, 8.

egle

(adj.)
Grammar
egle, grievous, painful.
Entry preview:

Add

for-gangan

(v.)

to forgoabstain from

Entry preview:

Hé sceal fæstan tó nónes, and forgange (forgán, v. l.) flǽsc and wín jejunare debet ad nonam, et abstinere se a carne et vino, 134, 20

Linked entry: for-gán

notu

Entry preview:

Add Tó singenne sóðlíce notu unrótnysse heortan gefréfrað psallendi enim utilitas tristitiam cordis consolatur, Scint. 33, 7. Note utilitati, An.

sápe

(n.)
Grammar
sápe, an; f.

Soap, salve

Entry preview:

Þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope, þen a riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware, A. R. 66, 18. Similar entries (? v. sáp)

Linked entry: sáp

BRÚ

(n.)
Grammar
BRÚ, gen. dat. acc. brúwe; pl. nom. acc. brúa, brúwa; gen. brúwena, brúena, brúna; dat. brúwum; f.

A BROW, an eye-brow, eye-lashcilium, supercilium, tautosuperciliumthe forehead, brow

Entry preview:

A BROW, an eye-brow, eye-lash; cilium, supercilium, tauto Brúa cilia, Ælfc. Gl. 70; Som. 70, 62; Wrt. Voc. 42, 70. Brúwa cilium [ = cilia ], Wrt. Voc. 64, 35: 282, 49. Brúwa tautones, Wrt. Voc. 64, 28.

Linked entry: BRǼW

crucet-hús

(n.)
Grammar
crucet-hús, es; n.

A torment house afflictionis domus

Entry preview:

A torment house; afflictionis domus Sume hí diden in crucet-hús, ðæt is in án ceste ðæt was scort, and nareu, and undép, and dide scærpe stánes ðérinne, and þrengde ðe man ðǽrinne, ðæt him brǽcon alle ðe limes some they put into a crucet-house, that

tó-springan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-springan, p. -sprang, pl. -sprungon; pp. -sprungen

To spring asunderfly to piecesto crackburst open

Entry preview:

Hí becómon tó ðám ísenan geate and ðæt tósprang ðǽrrihte him tógeánes they came to the iron gate, and it burst open straightway at their approach, 382, 12. Tósprang dissilit, Germ. 399, 272. Tóspringe crepet, 398, 112

a-þoht

(n.)
Grammar
a-þoht, es ; m. [a out, þoht a thought]

A thinking outan excogitationa devicean inventioncommentum

Entry preview:

A thinking out, an excogitation, a device, an invention; commentum, Cot. 35

heofon-hwealf

(n.)
Grammar
heofon-hwealf, e; f.

The vault of heaven,

Entry preview:

Kmbl. 1089; An. 545: 2803; An. 1404

Linked entry: hwealf

heofon-þrym

(n.)
Grammar
heofon-þrym, -mes: m.

Heavenly glory or majesty,

Entry preview:

Kmbl. 962; An. 481: 3436; An. 1722

ge-tellan

Entry preview:

Th. i. 68, 35. where a total which is formed by two or more objects is given as so and so Wæs geteald ǽfen and merigen tó ánum dæge evening and morning were reckoned a day, Lch. iii. 232, 11. to consider Hwæt is bearn mannes þet þú getelest (reputas

L

Entry preview:

Thus in the translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care and in the Parker MS. of the Chronicle alle, onwald are found as well as ealle, onweald, while in Ælfric's Homilies they are regularly written in the latter form.

ge-tácnung

Entry preview:

Add: a sign, mark. a mark made on an object Bóceras habbað on heora cræfte tácna . . . and mé þingð wynsumlic ꝥ ic þǽra preósta notas þám bócerum gekýðe þe lǽs þe hig witan þá rímcræftige weras sýn bútan cræftigum getácnungum, Angl. viii. 333, 19. a

in-gehygd

Entry preview:

Add: mind, thoughts Hié þá eorþlican sorga forlélon and Þá ingehyd heora heortan on þone heofonlican hyht gestaþelodon, Bl. H. 135, 29. On þám is godcundnesse wén þe manna ingehygd wát and can, 179, 26.

FÚS

(adj.)
Grammar
FÚS, adj.

Readypreparedpromptquickeagerhasteningproneinclinedwillingready for deathdyingpromptuscĕlerpărātusprōnuscŭpĭduspropĕræ morti devōtusmŏrĭbundus

Entry preview:

Geseah ic ðæt fúse beácen wendan wǽdum and bleóm I saw the hastening beacon change in hangings and colours, Rood Kmbl. 42; Kr. 21.

þeór

(n.)
Grammar
þeór, es(?), e(?), gender is uncertain: in the following passages, which might be decisive, the forms are doubtful
Entry preview:

Drenc wiþ þeórádle ... gif hé on þam innoþe biþ þonne ádrífþ hine ðes drinc út (hé and hine may, perhaps, be taken as referring to þeór, as ádl is fem. ), 118, 1-12. The meaning, too, is doubtful.

eáre

Entry preview:

Hé him mildheortnesse eáron ontýnde, 107, 1. a handle on a pot. Cf. Icel. eyra a handle on a pot, see N. E. D. ear, ll. 8, and next word

ge-bann

Entry preview:

Add Geban edictum, Wrt.

frymþ

(n.)
Entry preview:

Þonne hý æt frymðe gemétað at their first meeting, Cri. 1666. Swylc hé æt frymðe wæs, Ph. 239. Þǽr þú wurde æt frymðe fugel if thou hadst been born a bird, Seel. 79.