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Beám-fleót

(n.)
Grammar
Beám-fleót, es; m.

Beamfleet [Beamfled, Hunt.] Bamfleet, Benfleet, Essexæstuarii nomen in agro Essexiensi, hodie Benfleet

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The name of places now called Beamfleet [Beamfled, Hunt.] Bamfleet, Benfleet, Essex; æstuarii nomen in agro Essexiensi, hodie Benfleet Hie fóron eást to Beámfleóte they marched east to Benfleet, Chr. 894; Erl. 91, 15

Sweordoras

(n.)
Grammar
Sweordoras, (?); pl. m.
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Sweordora þryú hund hýda (the name occurs in a list of districts in the land of the Mercians)

lǽce-finger

(n.)
Grammar
lǽce-finger, es; m.

The leech-finger

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P. 291 note the reason for the name is given differently.

Linked entry: gold-finger

Wéland

(n.)
Grammar
Wéland, es; m.
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.), and a trace of the legend is preserved in the name Wayland Smith's Cave, in Berkshire (v. infra). Perhaps, too, the same may be said of the river-name Welland (but see Weolud), which occurs in Latin charters as aqua de Uueeland, Cod. Dip.

Linked entry: Weolud

mylen-burna

(n.)
Grammar
mylen-burna, mylen-burne
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. ¶ as a place-name :-- Ðæt land æt Mylenburnan, C. D. ii. 114, 33 : vi. 131, 12

ge-teorung

(n.)
Grammar
ge-teorung, e; f.

A failingfaintinglanguishingwearinessdefectiolanguorfatigatio

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A failing, fainting, languishing, weariness; defectio, languor, fatigatio Geteorung nam me for synfullum defectio tenuil me præ peccatoribus, Ps. Spl. 118, 53: 141, 3

Linked entry: a-teorung

hirde-belg

(n.)
Grammar
hirde-belg, -belig, es; m.

A shepherd's bag

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A shepherd's bag Ðá nam he fif stánas on his herdebelig then he took five stones in his shepherd's bag, Blickl. Homl. 31, 17

Mealdumes burh

(n.)

Malmsbury

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Æt Meldum, ðæt is óðrum naman Maldumes buruh geclypud, 24, Binnon Mealdelmes byrig, Chr. 1015; Erl. 152, 3: Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 312, col. 2

Scón-ég

(n.)
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The name occurs in Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 19, 35

á-scippan

(v.)
Grammar
á-scippan, p. scóp
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To create, originate Perseus þǽre þeóde óþerne naman áscóp be him syluum Perseus nomen genti dedit, Ors. 1, 8; S. 40, 33. Áscæpen am creata sum, Rtl. 68, 18. [O. H. Ger. ar-scaffan efficere.]

Linked entry: á-sceppan

hyrel

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The word set ms the name of a stream ? Add

Hám-tún

(n.)
Grammar
Hám-tún, [or Ham-tún?]

Hampton, a common local name, used for both the present Northamptonand Southampton

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Hampton, a common local name, used for both the present Northampton, Chr. 917, Erl. 102, 12; and Southampton, Chr. 981; Erl. 129, 36: for other towns see the index to Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. vol. vi

Linked entry: Súþ-hámtún

ceáp-land

(n.)
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Ic an mín wíf al ðat ceáplond and dat óðer ðat ic mid hire nam, C. D. iv. 294, 18

Wixan

(n.)
Grammar
Wixan, pl.

The name of some people

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The name of some people in some district in England Eást-Wixna is þryú hund hýda, West-Wixna syx hund hýda, Cod. Dip. B. i. 414, 19. Similar entries Cf. on wixena bróc, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 78, 1

ceafer

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. ¶ in a local name ceafor-leáh, C. D. iii. 77, 26. Add

frysca

(n.)
Grammar
frysca, an; m.
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The name of some bird Frysca butio (butio is a bittern. but is glossed by cýta, Wrt. Voc. i. 29, 32: 63, 17: ii. 11, 35), Wrt. Voc. ii. 102, 34. Cýta, frisca butium, 126, 81

Linked entry: frisca

hlinc-gelád

(n.)
Grammar
hlinc-gelád, es; n.
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The word occurs as a place-name Ðis sind ðá landgemǽru tó Hlincgeláde (cf. quoddam ruris praediolum . . . eni solicolae antiquum indiderunt uocabulum æt Lhincgelade, 78, 21), C. D. vi. 79, 4

Linked entry: ge-lád

sǽd-berende

(adj.)
Grammar
sǽd-berende, In a legend of the Holy Cross Seth is represented as bringing seeds from Paradise, whither he had been sent by Adam: Seth, ita edoctus ab angelo cum uellet discedere, dedit ei angelus tria grana pomi illius, de quo manducauerat pater eius dicens ei: 'Infra triduum cum ad patrem tuum redieris ipse exspirabit. Haec tria grana infra eius linguam pones, &c.' If the poet of the Genesis knew such a legend it might have suggested the epithet he applied to Seth. v. Mod. Lang. Rev. vi. 200. See, too, C. M. 1365
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His leue Seth toke of cherubyn, and þre curnels he ȝaf to hym whiche of ꝥ tre he nam ꝥ his fadir eet of Adam

Basing

(n.)
Grammar
Basing, es; m.

Basingold Basing, near Basingstoke, Hampshirenomen oppidi ita hodie vocatum in agro Hantoniensi

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The name of a place, Basing, old Basing, near Basingstoke, Hampshire; nomen oppidi ita hodie vocatum in agro Hantoniensi Wið ðone here æt Basingum with the army at Basing, Chr. 871; Th. 138, 28, col. 2; 139, 27, col. 1, 2

fastitocalon

(n.)
Grammar
fastitocalon, [ = άσπιδoχελώνη : Dietrich άστν τò καλóν]

A large whale

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A large whale; bālæna = φα~λαινα Ic wille cýðan bí ðam miclan hwale, ðam is noma cenned fastitocalon I will make known concerning the great whale, to which the name Fastitocalon is given, Exon. 96 b; Th. 360, 18; Wal. 7