fandian
To try, tempt, prove, examine, explore, seek, search out ⬩ tentāre, prŏbāre, exāmĭnāre, expĕrīri, inquīrĕre, vestīgāre
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To try, tempt, prove, examine, explore, seek, search out; tentāre, prŏbāre, exāmĭnāre, expĕrīri, inquīrĕre, vestīgāre Gif ðé ǽfre geweorþeþ ðæt ðú wilt oððe móst weorolde þióstro eft fandian if it should happen that thou wilt or must again explore the
féðe
The power of going on foot ⬩ walking ⬩ going ⬩ motion ⬩ pace ⬩ făcultas pĕdĭbus eundi ⬩ ambŭlātio ⬩ gressus ⬩ passus
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An féðe mihtigost most powerful in walking, Bt. 36, 5; Fox 180, 21. He náhte his féðes geweald he had no power of waiting, Homl. Th. i. 336, 9.
Linked entry: an-féðe
freólíc
Free ⬩ noble ⬩ ingenuous ⬩ comely ⬩ goodly ⬩ līber ⬩ ingĕnuus ⬩ egrĕgius ⬩ dĕcens
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Fǽmne freólícast most noble damsel, 9a; Th. 5, 20; Cri. 72
Linked entry: frílíc
be-þencan
To consider, bear in mind, BETHINK, remember, trust, confide, entrust ⬩ considerare, recordari, in se reverti, meminisse, fidere, confidere
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He beþohte swíðost to Arpelles he trusted most in Harpalus, Ors. 1, 12; Bos. 35, 34. Gif ðú to sǽmran gode biþencest if thou confidest in a worse god, Exon. 66 b; Th. 245, 30; Jul. 52.
hættian
To take the hair and skin from a person's head
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It was giving the victim the appearance of wearing a hat of a most ghastly kind
full-gán
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Hió hyre firenluste fulgán ne móste bútan manna bysmrunge, Ors. 1, 2; S. 30, 33.
hosp
Reproach, opprobrium, contempt, contumely, insult, blasphemy
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Menigfealde earfoþnyssa and hospas wolde gehwá eáðelíce forberan wið ðan ðæt hé móste sumum rícan men tó bearne geteald beón anybody would put up with all kinds of hardships and affronts on condition that he might be accounted the son of some great man
Linked entry: hyspan
Ælfred
Alfred the wise, king of Northumbria for twenty years
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Ealdfriþ] æfter Ecgfriþe to ríce, se mon wæs se gelǽredesta on gewrítum, se wæs sæd ðæt his bróðor wǽre Oswies sunu ðæs cyninges Ecgfrith was succeeded in the kingdom by Alfred, who was said to be his brother, and a son of king Oswy, and was a man most
geornlíce
Earnestly, diligently, zealously, strenuously, carefully, willingly ⬩ dīlĭgenter, stŭdiōse, obnixe, sollĭcĭte, lĭbenter
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Ðæt he geornlícost God weorþige that he most zealously worship God, Exon. 14 a; Th. 27, 19; Cri. 433
Linked entry: eornlíce
feorran
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., fearra, L. a longe) geseah án fíctreów, 11, 13: Lk. 16, 23. of time. of a distant past Frumsceaft fira feorran reccan to tell the origin of men from the most remote past, B. 91: 2106. of a distant future Hé wolde feorran and lange ǽr cýðan his ðrowunge
sand
a sending, mission, message ⬩ a dish of food, victuals
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Of everilc sonde . . . most and best he gaf Benjamin, Gen. and Ex. 2295
rúm
local, room, space ⬩ temporal, space of time ⬩ opportunity
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Hig ne móston rúm habban ðæt hig hit on riht gebócon ( Aegyptiis nullam facere sinentibus moram ), Ex. 12, 39. Fýrdraca rǽsde on ðone rófan ða him rúm ágeald (when the opportunity was given him) Beo. Th. 5374; B. 2690.
Linked entry: rúmian
Ælfréd
Alfred ⬩ Alfrédus ⬩ Alfred the Great
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This is the longest and most important specimen of Alfred's own composition.
þunor
thunder ⬩ tonitrus ⬩ fulmen ⬩ Jupiter ⬩ a thane of king Egbert of Kent
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Þuner Jovem, 112, 5. it is mostly in connection with the fifth day of the week that the word occurs On ðam fíftan dæge ðe gé Ðunres hátaþ, Hontl. Th. ii. 242, 23. Ðunres-dæges nama is of Iove, Anglia viii. 321, 16. On ðone Hálgan Ðunres-dæg, L.
racu
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exposition, rhetoric Swá gedéþ se dreámcræft ðæt se mon biþ dreámere and seó racu déþ ðæt hé biþ reccere sic musica musicos, rhetorica rhetores facit, Bt. 16, 3; Fox 54, 32. an account, reckoning Ðǽr wæs uneten racu unc gemǽne ; ic onféng ðín sár ðæt ðú móste
Linked entry: eá-racu
ge-unnan
To give ⬩ grant ⬩ allow ⬩ concede ⬩ concedere ⬩ indulgere ⬩ permittere ⬩ largiri
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Hú Cnut cyncg and Ælfgifu seó hlǽfdige geúðan heora preósté ðæt he móste ateón ðæt land swá him sylfan leófast wǽre how king Cnut and the lady Ælfgifu granted their priest that he might dispose of the land as he liked best, Th. Chart. 328, 20: Homl.
á-scirian
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Mǽden þe hine ne móste áscyrian fram his clǽnum lufe, Hml. S. 4, 14. Ne geþafa þú ꝥ ic beó fram ðé áscired, 15, 72. Hé trúwode þæt hé nǽre áscyred fram martirdóme þæs hálgan weres, Hml. Th. ii. 310, 28.
unnan
to grant a person (dat.) something ⬩ to give ⬩ allow ⬩ to wish something (gen.) to a person (dat. ) ⬩ to wish something (gen.) for a person (dat.) ⬩ to like a person to have something ⬩ to like a condition of things ⬩ to be pleased
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Úþe ic swíþor ðæt ðú hine selfne geseón móste I should have been much better pleased, that you could have seen the creature himself, 1925; B. 960.
nearu
confinement ⬩ durance ⬩ prison ⬩ a strait ⬩ difficulty
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confinement, durance, prison Hwonne hié of nearwe stæppan mósten, of enge út ǽhta lǽdan ( when they might come out of the ark ), Cd. Th. 86; Gen. 1433. Hió bebeád ðæt hine man of nearwe and of nýdcleofan, fram ðam engan hofe forléte, Elen.
súþ-healf
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The south side, mostly, if not exclusively, in the phrase on (ða) súþhealfe On súðhealfe ad meridianam plagam, Num. 3, 29: contra meridiem, Deut. 1, 7. On súþhealfe a meridie, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 10, 26: 14, 2.