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un-geleáffull

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S. 23b, 16 (in Dict.). substantival Þone sylfan deáð fram ungeleáffullum and Crístes feóndum ( ab infdelibus et inimicis Chrísti) ic ðrowode, Bd. 2, 6; Sch. 137, 8. incredible Ungeleáfulne lehter inauditum, i. incredibile crimen, An. Ox. 2785

BRÍW

(n.)
Grammar
BRÍW, es; m.

A thick pottage made of meal, pulse, etc ⬩ BREWIS ⬩ puls ⬩ pultis ⬩ πόλτος ⬩ porridge

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A thick pottage made of meal, pulse, etc, BREWIS; puls; gen. pultis = πόλτος porridge Ðes bríw this pottage; hæc puls, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 46; Som. 13, 9: Wrt. Voc. 290,38. Swá þicce swá bríw as thick as pottage, L. M.

Linked entries: calwer-bríw briig

grund-weall

(n.)
Grammar
grund-weall, es; m.

A foundation

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A foundation Ðes grundweall hoc fundamentum, Ælfc. Gr. 8;Som. 7, 60. Ic lecge grundweall fundo, 37;Som. 39, 20.

DOCCE

(n.)
Grammar
DOCCE, an; f.
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DOCK, sorrel; lăpăthum = λάπαθoν, rumex Ðeós wyrt ðe man lăpăthum, and óðrum naman docce nemneþ, biþ cenned on sandigum stówum, and on ealdum myxenum this herb which is called lăpăthum, and by another name dock, is produced in sandy places, and on old

for-wyrd

(n.)
Grammar
for-wyrd, -wird, e; f. [wyrd fortune; for-weorþan to perish] Loss,

damage ⬩ destruction ⬩ perdition ⬩ ruin ⬩ death ⬩ detrīmentum ⬩ intĕrĭtus ⬩ intĕrĭtio ⬩ perdĭtio ⬩ pernĭcies ⬩ internĕcio

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He alýsde ðin líf of forwyrde qui redĭmit de intĕrĭtu vītam tuam, Ps. Th. 102, 4: 106, 19: Ps. Lamb. 9, 16: Boutr. Scrd. 17, 23: 20, 16.

Linked entries: for-wird fǽr-wyrd

lor

(n.)
Grammar
lor, es; n. (v. ðæt forlor, Past. Swt. 403, 13).

Loss ⬩ destruction

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Éðel ðe nǽfre tó lore ne weorþeþ nunquam amittenda hæreditas, Past. 36, 6; Swt. 255, 4.

Linked entries: los lyre

magister

Grammar
magister, l. mágister, and
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Hí hæfdon mágistras gearwe, ðá ðe hig lǽrdon and týdon (magistros, qui docerent ], Bd. 4, 2 ; Sch. 345, 14.

leán

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Ꝥone síðfæt him snotere ceorlas lythwón Lógon, þeáh hé him leóf wǽre, hwetton higerófne they said nothing to dissuade him from the journey, dear though he were to them, urged him on, B. 203.

tó-lúcan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-lúcan, p. -leác, pl. -lucon; pp. -locen

To tear to pieces, ⬩ wrench asunder, ⬩ dislocate ⬩ to root out, ⬩ destroy

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Forðon ðe míne innoþas on ðam fylle tólocene wǽron eo quod interanea essent ruendo convulsa, Bd. 5, 6; S. 619, 31. Sint mé leoð tólocen, líc sáre gebrocen, Andr. Kmbl. 2807; An. 1406.

Linked entry: lúcan

yfel

(adj.)
Grammar
yfel, adj.
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Nys gód treów ðe yfelne wæstm déð, ne nis yfel treów gódne wæstm dónde, Lk. Skt. 6, 43. Heó is on onsýne útan yfeles heówes, Blickl. Homl. 197, 11. Ðá gecuron hig ða gódan (fiscas) on hyra fatu, ða yflan hig áwurpon út, Mt.

curmealle

(n.)
Grammar
curmealle, curmelle, curmille,an; f. Centaury; centaurēurn = κενταύρειον

the greater centaury ⬩ chlora perfoliata, Lin ⬩ the lesser centaury ⬩ erythræa centaurium, Lin

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Voc. 31, 39. the lesser centaury ; erythræa centaurium, Lin Ðeós wyrt ðe man centauriam minorem and óðrum naman curmelle seó læsse nemneþ, biþ cenned on fæstum landum this herb which is named centaurea minorand by another name the lesser centaury, is

Linked entry: culmille

CWUDU

(n.)
Grammar
CWUDU, cwuda, cweodo, cwidu, cudu; gen.ues wes; n.

What is chewed, a cud, quid ⬩ manducatum, rumen

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What is chewed, a cud, quid ; manducatum, rumen Ðe heora cudu ne ceówaþ: ða clǽnan nýtenu ðe heora cudu ceówaþ M. H. 138b. ¶ Hwít cwudu white cud, mastich; an odoriferous gum from the mastich-tree, which was called by Lin. pistacia lentiscas.

Linked entries: cud cweodo cwidu cwuda hwít cwidu cud

latian

(v.)
Grammar
latian, p. ode

To be slow ⬩ to linger ⬩ loiter ⬩ delay

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Ðeáh ðe hé ðá get latode on ðissum líchomlícum gebyrde though his birth was still deferred, Blickl. Homl. 167, 7. Hit is swytol ðæt man ðæs latode ealles tó lange, Wulfst. 168, 2. Ne lata ðú ne cuncteris, Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 34.

Linked entry: elcian

rǽden

(n.)
Grammar
rǽden, rǽdenn, e; f.
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Ǽlc gebúr sylle .vi. hláfas ðam inswáne ðonne hé his heorde tó mæstene drífe, on ðam sylfum lande ðe ðeós rǽden on stænt, L. R. S. 4; Th. i. 434, 22. Rǽdenne condicione, Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 59. Ðan (on ða ?) rǽdenne ea conditione, Hpt. Gl. 492, 8.

be-tellan

exculpate ⬩ excuse

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Se Hǽlend nolde hine betellan, ðeáh ðe hé unscyldig wǽre, Hml.

Wéland

(n.)
Grammar
Wéland, es; m.
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Kmbl. i. 78, 10, aqua de Uueland, 304, 6: ii. pp. 90, 281, 416 Wéland him wræces cunnade, earfoþa dreág Exon. Th. 377, 9; Deór. 1. Wélandes geworc ne geswíceþ monna ǽnigum Wald. 2; Vald. 1, 2. Wélandes bearn 74; Vald, 2, 9.

Linked entry: Weolud

nefne

(prep.; con.)
Grammar
nefne, nemne.

Unless ⬩ except ⬩ Except

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Ic lyt hafo heáfodmága nefne ðec, 4309; B. 2151. Ðæt unc ne gedǽlde nemne deáþ ána ówiht elles, Exon. Th. 442, 34; Kl. 23 : Andr. Kmbl. 1327; An. 664. Grammar nefne, prep. Except Nemne feáum ánum, Beo. Th. 2167; B. 1081

Linked entries: nemne nymne

a-fæstnian

(v.)
Grammar
a-fæstnian, p. ode; pp. od

To fix ⬩ fasten or make firm ⬩ to strengthen ⬩ fortify ⬩ confirm ⬩ betroth ⬩ espouse ⬩ inscribe ⬩ munire ⬩ firmare ⬩ consignare libris ⬩ infigere

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Ðe he on fíf bócum afæstnode which he inscribed in five books, Hexam. 1; Norm. 2, 18: Deut. 32, 23. Afæstnod ic eom injixus sum, Ps. Spl. 68, 2

Linked entry: a-festnian

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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Ǽr he [Ercol] ongan mid Creáca scypum, ðe mon dulmúnus hǽt, ðe man segþ ðæt in scip mǽge in þúsend manna before he [Hercules] began with Grecian ships, which are called dulmunus, of which it is said that one ship can hold a thousand men, Ors. 1, 10; Bos

earming

(n.)
Grammar
earming, erming, yrming, es; m.

A wretched or miserable being ⬩ mĭser

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Ne ondrǽd ðé, lá earming git ðu hæfst lífes hiht dread not, 0 wretched man, thou hast yet hope of life, Ælfc. T. 37, 2.

Linked entry: erming

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