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þing

(n.)
Grammar
þing, es; n.
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Th. ii. 230, i4. Swá hit ágǽð mid sóðum ðincge as it actually happens, Homl. Skt. i. 17, 109. Wundorlíc ðingc, Lchdm. i. 112, 13. Manegu díglu ðing sindon tó smeágeanne, Past. 21; Swt. 153, 13.

cwelm-bǽrnys

(n.)
Grammar
cwelm-bǽrnys, cwelm-bǽr-nyss,e; f. [cwealm, cwelm death, destruction]

Destruction, ruin, deadliness, mortality pernicies, mortalitas

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Þurh myrran is gehíwod cwelmbǽrnys úres flǽsces by myrrh is typified the mortality of our flesh, Homl. Th. i. 118, 3

Linked entry: cwealm-bǽrnes

fýr-clom

(n.)
Grammar
fýr-clom, gen. -clommes; m. [clom a band, bond]

A fire-bondvincŭlum ignītum vel igne dūrātum

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A fire-bond; vincŭlum ignītum vel igne dūrātum Ðis is þeóstre [ðeostræ MS.] hám, þearle gebunden fæstum fýrclommum this is a dark home, strongly bound with fast fire-bonds, Cd. 213; Th. 267, 16; Sat. 39

FEOH

(n.)
Grammar
FEOH, fioh; gen. feós; dat. feó; n.

cattleliving animalspĕcusjūmentaMoneyvaluepricehirestipendFEErewardpĕcūniamercesGoodspropertyricheswealthbŏnadīvĭtiæŏpes

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Ic ðé ða fǽhþe feó leánige I will recompense thee for the strife with money, Beo.

Linked entries: feá fioh feoh-fang

tela

(adv.)
Grammar
tela, teala, teola, telo, tiolo; adv.

Well.well, rightly, aright, correctlywell, perfectly, completely, thoroughly, certainlywell, prosperously, happilywell, in a beneficial or pleasant mannermarking degree, very, to a great extentas an exclamation, well, good

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ic wát tela and ic onféng gewit mínes módes modo sanum sapio, recepi enim sensum animi mei, Bd. 3, 11; S. 536, 33. 'Geseoh ðæt ðú teals wite.' Cwæþ hé: 'Ne wéde ic' 'vide ut sanum sapias.' 'Non,' inquit,'insanio,' 5, 13; S. 632, 32.

cýs-wuce

(n.)
Grammar
cýs-wuce, an; f. [cýse cheese, wuce a week]

Cheese-week, the last week of eating cheese before Lent septimana dominicæ quinquagesimæ

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In the Greek church quinquagesima Sunday is the last day on which cheese may be eaten till Easter. The same rule prevailed in monasteries of the Benedictine order, which only were known in England before the Conquest.

cneów-holen

(n.)
Grammar
cneów-holen, cneó-holen, es; m. n?

KNEEHOLMknee-hulverknee-hollybutcher's broom;ruscumvictoriolaruscus aculeatusLin

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M. 1, 36; Lchdm. ii. 86, 10: 1, 39; Lchdm. ii. 102, 9: 2, 51; Lchdm. ii. 266, 15: iii. 4, 29: 30, 14. Wyrc to drence twá cneówholen make into a drink the two knee-hollies L. M. 1, 47; Lchdm. ii. 120, 8

Linked entries: cneó-holen holen

tó-dón

(v.)
Grammar
tó-dón, p. -dyde.

to put asunder,divide,separateto undo,open

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P. ii. 11; Th. ii. 186, 10. Tódó man hig on twá separentur illi, 19; Th. ii. 188, 27. to undo, open Tódyde salvit, disligat, Germ. 402, 39. Hi tódydon heora múð ongeán mé apenierunt in me os suum, Ps.

tó-rendan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-rendan, p. -rende

To rend in two,tear in pieces

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To rend in two, tear in pieces Se héh ðá sacerd tóslát ł tórende woedo his summus autem sacerdos scindens vestimenta sua, Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 14, 63.

Linked entry: rendan

á-dreógan

to bear offsuffer, endureto bear with, tolerateto pass, spend timeto carry out, perform

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Add: to bear off Ic ádreóge digero, An. Ox. 18 b, 22. with the idea of pain :-- Hárnessa ádreóhende canos (suos) ducentes (ad inferos), 3368. to bear what is painful, suffer, endure :-- Ic ádreáh mycel broc, Bl. H. 175, 12.

Linked entry: á-dreósan

smiþ

(n.)
Grammar
smiþ, es; m.

A smith, a worker in metals or in wood faber faber, cudo

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Voc. i. 73, 26: faber 286, 74. Fýres god, helle smiþ Vulcanus ii. 95, 7.

Linked entry: helle-smiþ

for-swarung

(n.)
Grammar
for-swarung, e; f.
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Perjury Forswarung, ꝥ is mǽne áðas, Nap. 25

húsel-þegn

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Add: — Accolitus, ꝥ is húsolþegn, Chrd. 97, 21

un-gecoplic

Grammar
un-gecoplic, l. -cóp-.
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Add: The original Latin is: Lites cum importunis

gódnes

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Th. ii. 368, 38. <b>IV a.

æt-speornan

(v.)
Grammar
æt-speornan, l. æt-spornan, -spurnan,
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Ic ætspearn (-sporn, -speorn, v. ll.) ǽt ánum fótscearnole in scabello suppedaneo impegi, Gr. D. 22, 22. <b>II a.</b> fig.

cyn-ren

(n.)
Grammar
cyn-ren, cyn-ryn,es; n. [cyn a kindred, race, nation, family, generation; ren, ryn a course]

A family course, family, generation, kind, nation, posteritygeneratio, genus, natio, progenies, propago

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Ðis ys Thares cynryn this is the generation of Terah, Gen. 11, 27. On cynrynum cynrena [MS. kynrynum kynrena] in generationes generationum, Ps. Lamb. 71, 5.

mearc-land

(n.)
Grammar
mearc-land, es; n.

a border-landwaste land lying outside the cultivateda districtcountryterritory

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Kemble's Saxons in England, i. 46 sqq

ge-liger

Grammar
ge-liger, l. ge-ligere (ge-ligre),
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Voc. ii. 7, 76. Ic eom ondetta sodomiscre synne þe hié on gegyltan, þæt is geligre, Angl. xi. 98, 21. Geligeres prostibuli (v. forlig-gang), Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 77. Þurh ꝥ grimme bismergleów þæs mánfullan geligeres, Hml. S. 23 b, 451.

weallung

(n.)
Grammar
weallung, e; f.

agitationfervour

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agitation Se drænc is gód wið heáfodece and wið brægenes hwyrfnesse and weallunge the potion is good against headache and against giddiness and cerebral excitement, Lchdm. iii. 70, 20. fervour Wyrðelícre wallunge lufes digno fervore fidei, Rtl. 64,