HÓC
A HOOK
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A HOOK Hooc arpago vel palum, Ælfc. Gl. 3; Som. 55, 71; Wrt. Voc. 16, 43. Ic eom swá swá fisc on hóce I am as the fish on the hook, Nar. 40, 33.
lǽce-wyrt
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, though any one eat a medicinal herb; but he considers it as unlawful sorcery, if any one bind the herbs on himself, unless he lay them to the wound, Homl.
deád
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Add: physical. of an animal or a vegetable Ðá hé onfunde ꝥ hé deád beón sceolde when he found that he must die, Bt. 29, 2; F. 104, 20. Án cild arn under wǽnes hweowol and wearð sóna deád, Shrn. 32, 12.
híw-cúþ
domestic ⬩ familiar
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Add: of a house or family, domestic. of persons Híwcúþum domesticis (sodalibus), An. Ox. 5132. Se cyngc betwux his híwcúðum mannum blissode, Ap.
rempan
to go headlong (like an animal butting with its horns (?), ⬩ be precipitate
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Voc. ii. 15, 68 be precipitate Oft mon biþ suíðe rempende and rǽsþ suíðe dollíce on ǽlc weorc and hrædlíce and ðeáh wénaþ men ðæt hit síe for arodscipe and for hwætscipe saepe praecipitata actio velocitatis efficacia creditur, Past. 20, 1;Swt. 149, 12
deópnes
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III. cunning, subtlety :-- þára geréfena unriht and reáflác and deópnessa and wóge dómas and prættas, Wlfst. 245, 2 : Angl. viii. 336, 40
or-wearde
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Wit/tout guard, in an unprotected condition Syðdan orwearde ǽnigne dǽl secgas geségon on sele wunian, lǽne licgan after men saw any part (of the dragon's hoard) lying there without its warder. Beo. Th. 6245 ; B. 3127
un-hár
Very grey
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Very grey (un- seems to have here the unusual force of an intensive) Hróðgár, eald and unhár (cf. the epithets elsewhere applied to him, gamolfeax, 1220; B. 608: blondenfeax, 3586; B. 1791), Beo. Th. 719; B. 357
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be-wépendlic
Lamentable ⬩ deplorable
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Bewépendlic gewéd deflenda dementia, An. Ox. 40, 1. Hú earn, and hú bewépendlic is þǽra manna líf, þe ofer ꝥ riht onginnað, Hml. A. 146, 66
cild-lic
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S. 70, 13: primaevus, An. Ox. 56, 115. Cildlic on geárum and ealdlic on móde, Hml. S. 7, 9. Se cildlica heáp wolde þæs ánes cildes dreórignysse gefréfrian, Hml. Th. ii. 134, 18. Add
geond-gangan
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about, perambulate Beón gesette an oðþe twégen ealde witan þe þæt mynster geondgangen and þæs gýman deputetur unus aut duo seniores qui circumeant monasterium, R. Ben. 74, 15. Geondgongendra (-gang-, Fs. L.) perambulantium, Ps. Srt. 67, 22
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micelian
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Add Hitǽ brǽdaþ þwænge heora and micclaþ (miclas, L. ) fasu heora dilatant philacleria sua, et magnificant fimbrias, Mt. R. 23, 5. Mic[liaþ], An. Ox. 61, 36. Add Miclade God magnificans Deum, Lk. L. R. 18, 43
on-sundrum
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Oþ þæt cildra inngân þâ cyrcean ân on-sundron sê gehringed belle ( let a bell be rung without the accompaniment of any other? ; but the Latin is: Unum continuatim pulsetur tintinnabu-lum), Angl. xiii. 380, 211. Add
platung
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(here, and in Hpt. 489, 34 (both glosses of Ald. 48, 28) perhaps platum is Latin), An. Ox. 3534. Add
haga
A haw, berry of the hawthorn; also used to signify any thing of no value ⬩ frute cinum, cornum, ramnum
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A haw, berry of the hawthorn; also used to signify any thing of no value [?], [cf. Chaucer's 'not worth an hawe'] Hagan gignalia, Ælfc. Gl. 47; Som. 65, 24; Wrt. Voc. 33, 24. Hagan quisquilia, 285, 31
steor-wiglere
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An astrologer Ste(o)rwigleras mathematici, An. Ox. 55, 8
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mæcg
A man
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A man Ic meþelcwide mæcges (the angel that visited Guthlac) ongeat, Exon. 50 b; Th. 175, 9; Gú. 1192. Mægþ and mæcgas, 45 a; Th. 153. 29; Gú. 833 : 113 a; Th. 434, 7; Rä. 51, 7. Fréfra ðíne mæcgas ( the disciples of St. Andrew ), Andr.
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be-clýsing
a closed place ⬩ an enclosure ⬩ a clause ⬩ conclusion ⬩ syllogism
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a closed place, an enclosure Beclýsincga clausa, An. Ox. 1522. a clause, conclusion, syllogism Beclýsinge clausula, An. Ox. 5357. Beclýsingum conclusionibus (sillogismi ), 3210. Beclýsingca sillogismos, 4142
mótian
to address one's self ⬩ speak (to a person) ⬩ converse ⬩ to address an assembly ⬩ to discuss ⬩ dispute ⬩ moot a question
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Acts 12, 21: Herod sat upon his throne, and made an oration ), Homl. Th. ii. 382, 30. to discuss, dispute, moot a question (cf. a moot point) Ðú scealt gelýfan on ðone lifigendan God, and ná ofer ðíne mǽðe mótian be him. Hexam. 3; Norm. 6, 17
egle
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