gás-ríc
An impetuous creature, a furious animal
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An impetuous creature, a furious animal (used of the whale ; cf. the description in Wal. 5 : Se micla hwæl biþ unwillum oft geméted frécne and ferðgrim fareðlácendum) Fisc (a whale) flódu áhóf on fergenberig; warþ gásríc grorn þǽr hé on greút giswom
lúcan
To close ⬩ conclude ⬩ fasten ⬩ lock
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Ðǽr com flówende flód æfter ebban lucon lagustreámas there came flowing flood after ebb, the streams intertwined or closed up [the surface of the water shewing a network of lines from the varying currents, as the tide flowed up the river], Byrht.
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ofer-stígan
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[Ꝥ flod wex . . .. Hwenne so wil wit oferstieð ( gets the upper hand of), Misc. 192, 1.] add: with the idea of passing across or beyond Gewyrc ánne hring ymb þone slite útan, ne oferstíhð hit furðor, Lch. ii. 112, 1.
doppettan
To dip often, dip in, immerse ⬩ mersāre
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To dip often, dip in, immerse; mersāre Geseah he swymman scealfran on flóde, and gelóme doppettan adúne to grunde, éhtende þearle ðære eá fixa he saw gulls swimming on the water, and frequently dipping down to the bottom, eagerly pursuing the fishes
Francan
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Florus wæs fyrmest þǽra Francena þegna, Hml. S. 6, 140. Hé mid þám Francum wunode, 29, 164. Mid Froncum ic wæs, Víd. 68: 24: B. 2912. Add
yþ
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</b> applied to a quantity of any liquid, flood as in floods of tears :-- Flód ýðum weóll, Andr. Kmbl. 3091; An. 1548. Blód ýðum weóll, 2482; An. 1242. Swát ýðum weóll, 2552; An. 1277: Beo. Th. 5380; B. 2693. Teagor ýðum weóll, Exon.
ýþian
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Ðæt ýðigende flód, ðe ða synfullan ádylegode, Homl. Th. ii. 60, 4.
Brent-ford
- Sim. Dun
- Hunt.
the river Brent ⬩ a ford, Brenford, ⬩ Brendeford ⬩ BRENTFORD in Middlesex, situate where the river Brent flows into the Thames ⬩ oppidum in agro Middlesexiæ, in sinu quodam ubi se in Tamesin effundit Brent fluvius
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BRENTFORD in Middlesex, situate where the river Brent flows into the Thames; oppidum in agro Middlesexiæ, in sinu quodam ubi se in Tamesin effundit Brent fluvius Eádmund cyng férde ofer Temese æt Brentforda king Edmund went over the Thames at Brentford
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næglian
To nail ⬩ fasten with nails
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Siððan nægled bord, fær séleste, flód up áhóf, Cd. Th. 85, 22. Hwonne hié of nearwe ofer nægled bord stæppan mósten when from durance over the vessel's (the ark) nail-fastened side they might step, 86, 20; Gen. 1433.
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wæd
A ford ⬩ shallow water ⬩ water that may be traversed ⬩ a body of water ⬩ sea
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Wit on sǽ wǽron, óþ ðæt unc flód tódráf, wado weallende, Beo. Th. 1096; B. 546: 1166; B. 581. Sǽholm oncneów ðæt ðú gife hæfdes ... wædu swæðorodon, Andr. Kmbl. 1066; An. 533.
íþan
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ydwe, MS. ) wylce wan wætere gelíc /te clothed himself with cursing. . . it laid waste kis inward parts, fought like a flood; induit se maledictione . . . etintravit sicut aqua in interiora ejus, Ps. Th. 108, 18. Íðende depopulans, Wrt.
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ge-þeáwían
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Þá Iudéiscan wǽron swá geðeáwode þæt hí setton wæterfatu on flóra æt heora gebeórscipum ... þá wǽron gesette for ðám ðeáwe six stǽnene wæterfatu, Hml. Th. ii. 56, 32. of such and such manners, character, behaviour, habits, &c.
huntaþ
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Hé férde út on huntað mid eallum his werode . . .þá geseah hé micelne floc heorta, and hé ðá gestihte his werod . . . hú hí on þone huntað fón sceoldon. Þá hí ealle ymb þone huntað ábysgode wǽron . . . Hml.
swán
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Hiene án swán ( subulcus, Flor. Wig.) ofstang, Chr. 755; Erl. 48, 23. Hé (Alfred) on sumes swánes (the swán is called vaccarius in the Latin Vita S. Neoti, but in other forms of the story, e.g.
regn-boga
A rainbow
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God gesette ðone rénbogan tó wedde tó ðam beháte ðæt hé nǽfre eft nolde eahte middanearde mid nánum flóde oferteón. Se rénboga cymþ of ðam sunbeáme and of wǽtum wolcne, Boutr. Scrd. 21, 19-26. Ic sette mínne rénbogan ( arcum ) on wolcnum, Gen. 9, 13
norþ-dǽl
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Hú wæs þes middaneard tódǽled æfter þám flóde ? Sem . . . þone eástdǽl middaneardes þe is geháten Asia . . . Cham þone súðdǽl. . . Affrica, . . . Iafeth . . . norðdǽl . . . Europa, Angl. vii. 40, 375.
Finnas
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Finwood, between Gothland and Smöland, in the south of Sweden Ða Beówulf sǽ óþbær, flód æfter faroþe, on Finna land then the sea bore Beowulf away, the flood along the shore, on the Fins' land, Beo. Th. 1165; B. 580.
mitta
A measure, both dry and liquid, as for corn, meal, ale, honey
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His bigleofa wæs ǽlce dæg þrittig mittan clǽnes melowes and sixtig mittan óðres melowes 'Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal' (1 Kings 4, 22), Homl. Th. ii. 576, 31-32.
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a-dýdan
To put to death ⬩ to destroy ⬩ kill ⬩ mortify ⬩ perdere ⬩ occidere
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Ðæt ic náteshwon nelle heonon forþ eall flǽsc adýdan mid flódes wæterum that I will not, by any means, henceforth destroy all flesh with the waters of a flood, Gen. 9, 11.
eówode
A flock, herd ⬩ grex
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A flock, herd; grex Neuter, He gebrohte híg swylce eówode on wéstene perduxit eos tamquam grĕgem in deserto. Ps. Lamb. 77, 52.